Focus on Chartist Mural and analyze the History.
The mural comprised 200,000 pieces of tile and glass.  It was designed by Kenneth Budd and erected in 1978 at an entrance to John Frost Square, which had itself been created through redevelopment and named in the 1960s. The mural celebrated the Chartist uprising of 1839, when John Frost led a march of thousands of protestors to the Westgate Hotel which was fired on by troops; some 22 demonstrators were killed.
Budd researched the Chartist rebellion for four months in consultation with experts at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery. He then created the mural in hundreds of square panels in Kent which were later assembled on site. The mural showed:the march of the armed Chartist insurrectionists towards Newport
the Chartists' marching banners for the democratic demands of the Six Points of the People's Charter
their convergence on the Westgate Hotel to protest their demands
the final tragedy when soldiers opened fire upon the assembled Chartists.
Newport Museum and Art Gallery Westgate Hotel John Frost Kenneth Budd Newport Chartist John Frost Square Kent Newport Museum mural People's Charter