Leaflet giving details of the arrangements for the last sailings from both Newport and Dundee.
The train pulls into East Newport station for the final time on a wet May evening. Crowds acknowledge the significance of the occasion from their vantage point on the footbridge over the line.
The last train at West Newport station on 5th May 1969.
Memorabilia relating to the last train 3 May 1969. Two tickets for the last train, intimation of Gala Day at Tayfield and Scotscraig Round Table In Memoriam card with poem.
The son of John and Janet Latto of 2 Maryfield Terrace (now 35 Gowrie Street), Newport, he was a member of the Latto family who have been joiners in Newport for four generations. Ian was an artist with D.C.Thomson. He had been in the Boys’ Brigade as a lad, and then the Home Guard. He ...
This small yacht is the Aeolus, launched and named at the old pier by Mrs Dunlop of Kilnburn, probably in early 1960s. Some of the older Newport boys had restored the yacht on the beach. Up above on the right the residents of the old granary have a grandstand view of proceedings. Note the large ...
This young man, who was an electrician in a jute mill in Dundee, had been in the Newport ATC. He possibly lived at 37 Queen Street, Newport. He was on parade for the arrival of a VIP at Leuchars and collapsed with either pneumonia or pleurisy. He was taken to Edinburgh Military Hospital, where a chest ...
He was the son of Henry and Clara Lees of Tayside, 55 Cupar Road, Newport. He attended Dundee High School He was reported missing, presumed dead on 2nd July 1940, aged 23. He is buried at Rozenburg cemetery, on a small island west of Rotterdam. His name is on the Dundee High School memorial plaque, and ...
He was the son of Andrew Leitch, a Provost of Newport, whose home was at Netherlea, West Road, Newport (now demolished). Thomas had emigrated to Canada in 1907, and was a successful businessman. He joined the Canadian Army at the outbreak of war, and was sent to France in 1915. He was wounded twice, and ...
A booklet produced by Dundee City Museums and Art Galleries to accompany an exhibition of work by Len Fullerton. Leonard Fullerton was a highly respected wildlife artist, and he lived at the the Yellow Castle from the mid 1930s until his death in 1969.
He was the grandson of Sir John Leng of Kinbrae House and the son of John Adam St Quentin Leng and Mary Blyth Johnson of Seymour House, 111 Tay Street, Newport (now Riverview Lodge Care Home). He worked in the family firm of newspaper publishers in Dundee, and had four sisters and a younger brother, ...
A postcard view of Linden Avenue looking west. These houses were built in the early 1890s by local builder Alexander Robertson.
A very new looking Linden Avenue, with empty street and bare gardens. The railway embankment is on the left. The houses here were built early 1890s.
An early postcard of Linden Avenue, Newport. On the left, the railway line crosses the bridge at the top of Victoria Street. On the right, the first house now has a large gate cut into the corner of the stone wall.
Local ATC A Hogg, R Porter, J Dorward, J Fairlie, R Kilpatrick, H Robb, A Duncan, J Campbell, W McIntyre L Leslie, ?, D Leddie, R Walker, H McMillan, T Moag, T Burnet, R Howitt, H Burnet G Patrick, W Leslie, T Robertson, A W Keith, H Muir, W Wighton, D McLaren, R Bennett
Local ATC ?, W McIntyre, T Taylor, W Braid, ? Knox, ?, C Edgar, D Clark I McIntosh, G Patrick, ?, I Robb, J Campbell, ?, R Walker, ?, J Leddie W Leslie, R Bennet, D McLaren, A Melville, Keith, H Muir, D Lawson, J Carstairs, S Taylor, ? ?, R Porter, A Hogg, J Fairlie
This house was built for Dr John Stewart in the 1870s, and used as a doctor's residence and GP surgery for over 100 years. From the 1930s, Lovaine was occupied by Dr Taylor, who was later succeeded by three generations of Drs Mackintosh. It was last used as a surgery by Dr Macleod, until purpose ...
The general practice surgery was at the rear of the building, entered through the back yard.
Romance at Newport Tennis Club. Pictured are Ken Guttridge and Florence Clark. The inscription on the back of the photograph is 'When we first met at Newport Tennis Club 1947’. Happy to report they had a long and happy marriage!
Henry lived at Union Place, 18 Union Street, East Newport. He had joined the Black Watch aged 18, and served in India and Australia. He had been awarded the South African Medal for service during the Boer War. After leaving the army, he joined the Dundee Police until appointed as a School Board officer in ...
Son of John and Janet MacGregor of Osborne Place, 56 King Street, Newport, he had attended Newport School and joined the Boys’ Service of the Royal Navy on leaving. He had been a Scout in Newport. He had just finished training as a telegraphist at the outbreak of war. He was killed on 23rd January 1944, ...
Two magazine covers of Boat Road from 1964 and 1969. Interestingly the same photograph has been used with some important changes. In the first picture from 1964 cars are heading over the road towards the ferry, while on the right is the post office, the old Mission Hall just visible, Tayside tearooms and the great ...
This map shows Tayfield Estate in 2011.
A wartime issue in silver plate of the Mary Wilkie Fraser medal.