Salmon fishing was carried out all along the Tay estuary. The main stations in Newport were at Craighead, below the road bridge, and at Woodhaven. Fish were sold in Dundee market or shipped on ice to London.
A photograph of the results of a successful salmon fishing trip, taken at Pier Beach.
The Scaffies' Ball was one of the highlights of the Newport social calendar! An annual pub get-together in the Gauldry Arms between burgh surveyor Jack Morton and the scaffies, started around 1966, eventually developed into the Scaffies' Ball. Photograph is from 1978, ticket from 1977.
Time for the wheelbarrow race at Newport School Sports in Windmill Park late 1960s.
Photograph of Scotscraig and Abercraig ferries laid up in Dundee harbour after the closure of the service in 1966. Both ships would eventually end their days in Malta.
The Scotscraig at Newport pier.
Photograph showing Scotscraig making the last crossing on 18 August 1966. The rear deck is crammed with people and the bunting is blowing in the breeze. Just visible on the left of the picture, and following the Scotscraig, is a canoe similarly bedecked with bunting.
Lovely clear view of the passengers on the last sailing of the Scotscraig on the evening of Thursday 18th August 1966. 200 passengers paid 5 shillings (25p) for the return trip.
A view from above the pier of the Scotscraig heading for Dundee.
The Scotscraig off East Newport. Note the old Royal Buildings, St Fillan's Church, old granary and burgh yard - all now gone.
The ferry "Scotscraig" on an evening crossing from Dundee, probably around 1960.
The family home had been at 2 Linden Avenue, Newport. He attended Clifton Bank private school in St Andrews, at which the most famous former pupil was Douglas Haig, later Earl Haig of the poppy fund. James studied agriculture at Edinburgh University, before going to Canada as a farmer. He enlisted in Winnipeg, Ontario in ...
John was the son of James and Margaret Scrimgeour, and the family home was Bay House, 12 Tay Street, Newport. He had attended Dundee High School and was married to Alison Wilson Scrimgeour; they were both solicitors in Dundee. He died aged 36 in the UK on 1st June 1944, five days before D-Day, in a ...
A photograph of a head and shoulders sculpture of Mrs Blyth Martin by Italian sculptor Tadlioni, on show in the Blyth Hall. The bust was unveiled at the grand inauguration ball in October 1890 held in the Blyth Hall on the completion of the hall extension to the rear. The extension, like the hall itself, ...
Seacraig Tennis Club East Newport. This was the other Newport Tennis Club! Early in the 20th century they had a court laid out on land in the grounds of Seacraig House between King Street and Union Street.
Lovely painting of the Seamills Smiddy done by Robin Don. The Dons were the last blacksmiths to work in the smiddy.
The Seymour Charter was a social club which met in the Seymour Hotel (now Riverview Lodge care home). The newscutting dates from their first meeting in 1971. The tankards which can be clearly seen here hung around the bar in the 'snug'.
Seymour Hotel Advert from 1970. The Seymour Hotel operated from Seymour House, now Riverview Lodge care home, from 1949 until 1989.
A newspaper advert for the Seymour Hotel in 1975. The Seymour, now Riverview Lodge care home, operated as a hotel from 1949 until 1989. The eagle-eyed will still spot traces of the words Seymour Hotel painted in large letters along the river-facing garden wall. This ensured that all travellers on the ferry from Dundee knew ...
This photograph shows the newly refurbished bar at the Seymour Hotel (latterly Riverview Lodge) 1980.
A book of matches advertising the Seymour Hotel, probably from around the 1960s.
A rather unusual event is described in this newspaper cutting from December 1899. It appears that an entertainment was organised annually for local (young!) shop assistants. Although no venue is named, the mention of upstairs and downstairs would suggest the Blyth Hall. In Victorian times, a 'conversazione', as mentioned here, would be a discussion usually ...
Until fairly recently the building at 1 Gowrie Street was always a shop. For most of its life it was a grocery store, but in its earliest days in the 1850s and 1860s it appears to have housed a bakery. Our photographs date from the 1970s and 1980s when it was run under the Spar ...
These photographs were taken in St Mary's Church in Newport. Many of the Mars boys attended church there and left their marks on the church pews! Each boy was only known by a number while on board ship, so in many cases that's all they carved, as in the first two photographs. 36, 38 and ...