St Fort House in the snow looking north.
Newspaper article containing an interview with Andrew Mylius, owner of St Fort farm. Mr Mylius is the great-great-grandson of Henry Stewart who built St Fort House.
A line drawing of St Fort station by Keith Robson, drawn in 1989. St Fort station opened in 1878 as the only station on the line between Leuchars and the new rail bridge. To the south of St Fort there was a large triangular junction linking the lines to Leuchars and the Tay bridge with ...
The magnificent walled garden and glasshouses, on left hand side of road driving from Forgan roundabout to Five Roads.
A very early James Valentine photograph from the 1870s of St Thomas' Church (now Newport-on-Tay Church of Scotland) soon after the church opened in 1870. The large extension towards Scott Street which doubled the size of the church would not be built until 1902. The manse next to the church would also be built in ...
A history of the Church of St Thomas of the Seamylnes, written by Fraser Ritchie in1983. It covers the period from the planning of the church in the late 1860s until its union with St Fillan's Church in 1978 and with Forgan Church in 1981, thereafter becoming Newport-on-Tay Church of Scotland.
The story of Wormit's Steele and Brodie beehive works from Brian Nish.
Very dramatic artist's impression of the Tay Bridge Disaster 1879. From the Illustrated London News.
Article from the Courier, dated 14 December 2011. It gives details of a television programme which traced descendants of victims of the disaster.
News article from the Scotsman, dated 28 December 2002. It suggests that uneven track might have caused the Tay Bridge Disaster.
A broadsheet ballad written by C Horne soon after the disaster to mark the event.
Newspaper article from Scotland on Sunday in December 2013. It highlights the difficulties of ascertaining exactly how many lives were lost in the Tay Bridge disaster.
For many years the number of casualties was believed to be possibly 75. However more recent research can find evidence of no more than 59. These are the names on the memorials on both sides of the river.
A series of pictures representing the new bridge in operation, the Tay Bridge Disaster and the aftermath.
The engine was found on the river bed and was taken to Glasgow for repairs, which cost just £50, astonishingly little even in 1880, and surely a great tribute to the engine's original Scottish builders. It was soon back on the lines, and steamed on for another 40 years, during which time the drivers always ...
Newscutting explaining how engine driver David Mitchell had swapped shifts with a driver who had done a shift for David previously.
A news article giving details of an exhibition held in Dundee Central Library to mark the 125th anniversary of the Tay Bridge Disaster.The article notes many interesting items that had been offered for display. The exhibition ran from December 2004 until January 2005.
Newspaper article from the Sunday Express, dated 27 February 2011. The article explains the plan to erect a memorial stone at train driver David Mitchell's previously unmarked grave.
Black-edged In Memoriam card for the Tay Bridge Disaster. The card suggests that 90 lives were lost. The accepted figure today is 59.
Information board on Tay Bridge Disaster positioned overlooking the railway bridge at Bridgehead Place, Wormit.
An article from an unknown magazine about the Tay Bridge Disaster, unfortunately missing the first page.
Article about the Tay Bridge Disaster from an unknown magazine in 1955.
Courier newspaper article by Jim Crumley in 2011. He supports the idea of erecting a memorial for the victims of the Tay Bridge disaster.
Leaflet produced by the Tay Bridge Disaster Memorial Trust explaining their desire to erect a memorial to the victims of the disaster, and to fund-raise for that purpose. The leaflet suggests a fairly substantial monument on the Dundee side of the river with an accompanying plaque on the Wormit side. In the end identical memorials ...
