Park Square Transformer
(1895-present)

thing and power transformer

Aged 129

Commemorated on 1 plaque

Park Square Transformer. From 1895 rubber-covered cable carried 2000 volt A.C. current from Newport's first power station in Llanarth Street to transformers which reduced it to 200 volt for supplying the wealthier householders.

Park Square (lying between Stow Hill and Commercial Street), Newport, Gwent, United Kingdom where it sited