A group of staff who helped run the Rio Youth Club in the 1970s. Read the memories of one of these staff members.
In the early 1980s a youth theatre was held in the Rio Community Centre. Our photographs show an outdoor show Ferries and Trains in 1984.
As part of the celebrations to mark the opening of the Tay Road Bridge on 18th August 1966, a celebration football match was held. The participants were the Boys Brigade versus the Old Crocks. On the left are Provost William Smith and Mrs Smith, on the right is referee John Gordon. In the front row ...
Contestants in the fancy dress parade held at on Saturday 20 August 1966 to celebrate the opening of the Tay Road Bridge on Thursday 18 August. The parade assembled in Scott Street before parading to Tayfield where the gala was held.
Mrs Betty Dow (nee Rankine) dressed as a tinker woman participating in the fancy dress parade and gala day held on Saturday 20 August 1966 to celebrate the opening of the Tay Road Bridge on Thursday 18 August. Mrs Dow was dressed in exactly the same costume as her mother, Mrs Betty Rankine, had worn ...
Newport Old Folks Club members dressed up as Fifie Passengers Past and Present. They and their decorated lorry won the 'Best Float' award in the fancy dress parade held on Saturday 20 August 1966 to celebrate the opening of the Tay Road Bridge. See photograph of members.
Contestants in the fancy dress parade held at on Saturday 20 August 1966 to celebrate the opening of the Tay Road Bridge on Thursday 18 August. The parade assembled in Scott Street before parading to Tayfield where the gala was held.
Part of the crowd waiting in Scott Street to see off the parade to the gala held in Tayfield on Saturday 20 August 1966 to celebrate the opening of the Tay Road Bridge on Thursday 18 August.
The youngest son of Mrs J G Robertson, a widow who lived at Union Terrace, Union Street, East Newport, Andrew had attended Newport school and worked for Kirk and Coutts, a fireplace firm in Dundee who also had an ironmonger’s shop in Newport, before enlisting. His elder brother was also killed during WW1. He was killed ...
One of three brothers, whose family home was at Hollybank, 51 West Road, Newport, his father was a Dundee clothier. He was married with two children. He was killed at Loos, France on 25th September 1915, aged 28, and his name is recorded on the Loos Memorial to the Missing. The Battle of Loos claimed six ...
The elder brother of Andrew Robertson, who was killed a few months after him, his family home was at Union Terrace, Union Street, East Newport (where Dental Plus now stands). He had emigrated to Canada as a very young man, and had married Christina fourteen months before his death. He was killed 1st April 1917. He ...
William was the fourth in a family of ten children, and grew up at Strathview, Maryfield Terrace, 8 Queen Street, East Newport. His father was an upholsterer in Dundee. Two of his brothers also served in the war. He died at the age of 23 on 31st July 1917, in the early stages of the Battle ...
The annual Round Table fete held in the grounds of Tayfield.
Centre pages from the Newport Round Table magazine from 1970, showing just some of their recent activities.
Newport Round Table members in very fancy dress 1970s.
Round Table members recognising Miss Maude Pilkington's freedom of the burgh 1970.
Programme of Round Table's fortnightly meetings for 1970-1971.
In the 1970s Round Table brought over a dozen under-priveleged children from Belfast for a week's holiday. They stayed in Comerton House at Forgan which had been a children's home. This photograph shows a party in the Newport Hotel for the children and members of Round Table.
Round Table outing to Dewar's in Perth in 1970s.
Framed painting by Helen Wallace of the old Royal Buildings, sometimes called Turnbull's Buildings after the man who built them in 1877. They stood on the corner of Robert Street and Tay Street, but were demolished 1970-1971.
Photograph of an ice cream cart from the Royal Cafe, Newport. The Royal Cafe was housed in the old Royal Buildings in the 1920s and 1930s. On busy days when there was a regatta or swimming gala at the adjacent Newport Braes, the ice cream carts on Tay Street would be plying a brisk trade. ...
These newspaper cuttings give details of the sale in May 1882 of the contents of the Royal Hotel in the Royal Buildings on Tay Street. Clearly the hotel wasn't being sold as a going concern, as every single item in the 28 rooms was being offered for sale. Mr Keay, the manager of the hotel, ...
A photograph of a visit to Newport by Queen Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, in 1950. She is seen leaving the High Street, with Provost Lawson looking on.
Provost Lawson and Queen Elizabeth in Newport, 1950.