I've always found this mural on the blocked up gable window of the house at the bottom of James Street rather intriguing. I've now learned that it was done around 1975 by four-year-old Boo Paterson (now a successful artist) and her older brother who lived in this house. They collected sea glass from the shore ...
Our pictures show Jan Martin's dance classes in the 1980s. The classes, for youngsters and for adults, were held in the Rio Community Centre.
Not exactly sure what the function of this object was, but it certainly advertises the wares at Janetta's Pierhead Cafe. The Janetta family had operated their restaurant business on Boat Brae since the early 1930s. By the 1960s and 1970s it was affectionately known for some reason as Stinky's, and for the youth of Newport ...
He had attended Dundee High School, and subsequently worked with Low and Bonar, jute manufacturers, Dundee. Douglas was a keen tennis player and a member of St Fillan’s Church. There is a photograph of Douglas in our tennis archive. His home was at 16 (now 37) Kilnburn, Newport, and he was engaged to Eileen Cramond. ...
As a swimmer, Jim Muirhead was Scotland's most successful paralympian. Jim lived at 13 Alma Terrace as a schoolboy in the 1950s and 60s. His loss of sight at age 16 put an end to swimming training with the British Olympics team, but he was soon invited to join the paralympians instead. Between 1976 and ...
Lovely view of this gleaming Ford Consul parked on Tay Street, and it's clearly the focus of the photograph, but the picture earns its place in our archive thanks to the background. Jimmy Fairlie's shop was here in the old Royal Buildings all through the 1960s until the buildings were demolished in 1971. Thereafter he ...
John Dott was involved with Newport and Wormit Scouts and Cubs from his childhood days in the Cubs in the 1930s until his official retirement from the movement in 1995. From the late 1950s until 1973 he was Scoutmaster. In 1973 he was appointed District Commissioner, a post he held for 22 years. Even after ...
This photograph shows JT Young's first premises on the High Road, where by 1896 he had established his successful cycle repair business. In the early 1900s he embraced motor transport and expanded down into Boat Road. With further expansion, the business occupied the entire site of Scotscraig Apartments.
This tin, now containing nails, is 60 years old and was found in Hugh Ritchie's garage over 500 miles away in Canterbury! The previous contents had been dispensed in 1962 by David Kerr the Chemist at the Pierhead.
Kilnburn steps packed with excited well-wishers to welcome the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, 1958
Poster giving details of fete to be held in Kinbrae grounds in 1935. By this time the Dunn family was living at Kinbrae, and the fete was organised by the local Liberal party.
Kinbrae House main entrance gate.
Kinbrae House, the home of Sir John Leng. Kinbrae was built by 1870 and was demolished around 1960.
Kinbrae House from south.
Kinbrae House from the south in snow.
John was the son of William and Helen Kinnear, of 107 Tay Street, East Newport, and worked as a garage hand with Don’s garage in King Street, before he could achieve his ambition of joining the RAF, which he did in 1939. On the dams mission, on 16th/17th May 1943, he flew in the first of ...
Lovely view of Kirk Road before the trees on left were felled and the road was widened.
A lovely old photograph of Kirk Road in the snow, before the trees were cut down and the road widened to allow safer traffic to the new Newport Primary School (1977).
An almost unrecognisable image of Kirk Road in 1950, before the road was widened and the trees cut down .
Photo of the storm damage in Kirk Road, Newport taken about 1880. This photograph was found in a very old photograph album, and on the next page was a photograph of the fallen rail bridge. It's highly likely therefore, that the storm damage seen here was caused by the same gale that blew down the ...
An extract from the Newport Round Table magazine showing clever caricatures of some of the leading members of Round Table in 1970.
Newspaper report of the Newport Ladies Circle AGM in 1978.
Three tickets for the Tay Ferries, all stamped with 18 08 66 for crossings on the last day of the ferry service.
Four photographs showing the last days at East Newport station.