This shows information provided by Forgan School to the Government in answer to a questionnaire in 1838. It gives details of numbers of pupils etc.
Photo of a group of pupils and presumably teachers from Forgan School in the early 1900s.
This letter was sent from Forgan School by Mrs Cameron to the mother of Annie Myles (on left in photo) in 1905. Annie was leaving school aged 13 to become a maid at 'Woodstock', 59 Cupar Road.
Photograph of a Forgan WRI dinner. Date unknown.
Forgan WRI Syllabus Card 1969.
In 1964 Forgan WRI entered the Top Town national drama competition.They reached the final and eventually won. The final was hosted by Inverurie Musical Society. This was the programme for the event.
In 1964 Forgan WRI entered the Top Town national drama competition.They reached the final and eventually won. The final was hosted by Inverurie Musical Society. These photographs show the members performing.
In 1964 Forgan WRI entered the Top Town national drama competition.They reached the final and eventually won. The final was hosted by Inverurie Musical Society. This photograph shows the successful team.
A newspaper cutting from the 1920s of a very young boy dressed in a Mars uniform, probably at Elie.
Leaflet outlining the history of Sandford House.
This building, partially below ground, would have been packed with ice in the winter months. The ice would have kept throughout most of the year, and was used to keep recently landed salmon fresh. It is dated 1794.
James Jack and Sons plumbing business operated in the village from 1880 until the 1950s. Thereafter the name continued but the business was run from the original James Jack workshop on Union Street by George Smith whose grandson still operates a plumbing business in the village today (2022). See our Newport Plumbers page. This particular ...
Slightly out of Newport, but worth a mention. Jess Philip's dam is/was on the Inverdovat road over to Tayport, on the right hand side at the bottom of the steep curving bend. Jess Philip was the sister of the famous Washer Willy. In fact it was she who was the laundress, no doubt sometimes using ...
Detail of the ceiling in the Leng Chapel.
Leng Chapel Inscription Panel. The Memorial to John Leng's first wife Dame Emily Leng, and also remembrance of his second wife Mary.
The Leng Chapel at Vicarsford Cemetery, two miles south of Newport. Built on a hill, the chapel is a memorial to John Leng's first wife Emily.
Map showing the coaching route, the 'Great Road' between the Forth and the Tay.
Map of the Newport - Tayport turnpike road, 'surveyed 1831 under direction of W. Blackadder by W. Baillie, Land Surveyor, Dundee'. Map is entitled 'Scotscraig'.
Photographs of the Mars boys building a rest camp for invalid boys from Dundee.
Two photographs of the Mars boys participating in outdoor activities at Elie.
A photograph of a gravestone in Forgan Cemetery commemorating three boys who tragically drowned in 1873.
The Mars boys at Elie enjoying a sing-song with Chief Officer Burns.
In the 1990s Mrs Allison (nee Swan) of Gauldry shared her memories of growing up at St Fort. "I lived at St Fort from age 3 in 1928, latterly at Flass farm where my father was manager, and until my marriage in 1949. The Pilkingtons lived in the big house. (Miss Pilkington’s sister is Mrs Wilson ...
These photographs show two from a series of milestones along the Great Road through Fife. They were made by Alexander Russell's Foundry in Kirkcaldy and erected in 1824.