We were sent the following doggy memories from the 1970s. "Does anyone remember the dogs there were in the 1970s in Newport? There was Trixie who used to come to Windmill Park when we had hockey practice from Newport Primary. The huge black Labrador belonging to the doctor who would lie in wait on top of ...
An early advertisement for Doig the Chemist in Robertson Place, Cupar Road.
This medicine bottle from Doig the chemist was dug up in the garden of Hazel Cottage (66 West Road). From the late 1870s William Doig had chemist shops both in Newport and in Dundee (as the bottle says). He eventually gave up the Dundee shop in the early 1900s which gives a date for the ...
Doig the chemist’s apprentices' drawer. It has been signed by all trainee chemists dating back to 1887.
One of five siblings, William was the son of John Doig whose father William had started a chemist business here in Newport in 1876. The shop was run by the family until the 1950s, and their shop in Robertson Place (Cupar Road) featured on many old postcard views. The family lived at 4 Struan Place. William ...
Dr John Stewart was Newport's first general practitioner and was recommended to the people of Newport by Professor Simpson of chloroform fame. Lovaine was built on Cupar Road for Doctor Stewart, and he used it as his surgery and residence.
Dr Thomas Stewart, "Docy Tom", succeeded his father Dr John Stewart as Newport's general practitioner. He lived and worked at Lovaine on Cupar Road, and was assisted by the apparently rather flamboyant Dr Montague Rust.
We don't really know much about this lovely photograph. We do know it's taken outside the Blyth Hall probably around 1930. 2nd from left in front row is Gertrude (Bunty) Irons. Irene Williamson is back row 2nd left. Middle row 1st left is Margaret McEwan, and possibly Barbara Baxter and a Powell somewhere. Which show is ...
A drawing of Newport High Street in the snow, around 1950, showing Gilchrist the Baker, Morrison the Butcher, and Beatt and Tait, Family Grocer.
A drawing showing the High Street just after the turn of the century.
This drawing of the High Street shows Gilchrist the Baker in the corner shop, and Beatt and Tait, Family Grocers, just along the road.
Drawing of old Newport Post Office opposite the pier. Beyond the Post Office are the mission hall and the Brig o' Tay.
Postcard showing Dundee fire brigade arriving by ferry at Newport Pier.
Eager crowds waiting by Trinity Church to welcome the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh on the occasion of the royal visit in 1958.
A cutting from the Courier on 3 December 1980 recalling the early days of the BB in Newport
A photograph of East Newport, taken while the road bridge was under construction. Note the wooden temporary bridge, and pre-fab houses in Kerr Street and Tay Terrace.
Good clear view of East Newport from the pier, probably around 1900. The gasworks chimney was removed in 1905 after the gasworks had moved in 1903 to their new location on the Tayport Road.
Quite an unusual view towards East Newport, as it focuses on the most easterly stretch of the Braes. The houses on Tay Street between Robert Street and James Street can also be seen. Most interesting however, is the white cottage on the cliff at the left of the photograph. This is Kempstane, a small croft ...
Good clear view of the area around the old pier around 1900. On the extreme left are the washing lines for the flats in the old granary, and the gasworks chimney dominates the scene. McKellar the painter's name is easy to see from the Fifie, and going towards the west, first Chapel House, then Seamills ...
Looking from the shore at West Newport, towards the pier and East Newport.
Key that opened the gates of the level crossing at East Newport station.
East Newport rail tickets from 1965, and a luggage ticket from West Newport.
East Newport Signal Box at the far end of the station. Photograph from 1968 not long before closure in 1969. Only single track remaining as no need by then for access to Tayport or for sidings access to the goods yard which had been behind the signal box.
An almost deserted East Newport Station in November 1965.