Article from the Scotsman in 2009 outlining the plans for memorials on both sides of the river for the Tay Bridge disaster casualties.
News article from the Courier, dated 29 December 2014. Historian Rosa Matheson looks at the human cost of the disaster.
An account of the events of the Tay Bridge Disaster 28 December 1879.
Photograph of the lapel pin belonging to 22-year-old David Watson, one of the casualties of the disaster. The pin was returned to his mother along with other items after the identification of his body.
News article from the Courier December 2011 outlining plans for memorials at Dundee and Wormit for the victims of the Tay Bridge Disaster.
A new water supply had been brought over the new bridge from Dundee to Newport and Tayport. Here we have the Illustrated London News artist's impression of the severed pipe and rails.
Newscutting describing the belongings of some of the disaster victims, and also a description of some of the gravestones.
When the fallen girders were located on the river bed, it was found that much of the train was still within them. The carriages were completely empty, an indication of the strength of the current out in the river that night.
James Duncan was the first stationmaster at East Newport station. In this newspaper cutting he recalls the night of the Tay Bridge Disaster and his early days at Newport.
An astonishing photograph of the signatures etched into glass of three of the engineers on the first Tay Rail Bridge. They are Albert Grothe (chief engineer), Frederick Reeves and ___ Neuzille. The signatures are still on the window of the house in East Newport where Reeves was staying and they are dated 9 October 1874.
This is a Victorian bee house, beautifully restored in 2020. It is one of only five known in Scotland, and probably the only wooden one. It has now been listed as a building of historical importance. It is believed to have been brought to Tayfield by boat around 1850. The actual hives were on shelves ...
These two photographs show some of the house staff at Tayfield House around 1900, and a page boy from around 1870. Until World War II a large staff would help to run the house.
The viaduct that carried the railway line through the Tayfield Estate comprised four spans on three columns. It was removed soon after the line closed. Picture 1 shows the series of supports that carried the viaduct, 2 the present day retaining wall at the other side of the gap, and 3 is a rare view ...
Drawing of Tayport station by Keith Robson done in 1988. Tayport Station is worthy of including here as it was the terminus for the Newport railway. But although the Newport railway opened in 1879, Tayport station had opened as early as 1848 because in that year a line had been built to Tayport from Cupar, ...
One of the small signs (totems) from Tayport station.
Photograph of the Berry Family tree, 1725-2016.
The Mars boys in the classroom on board the Mars.
Lovely clear shot of the Dundee leaving Newport, with the rail bridge visible in the distance. The Dundee operated on the crossing 1875 until 1917. This photograph probably dates from the early 1900s.
A reprint of a newspaper article from 1902 describing the extension to St Thomas' Church, and the background history to the need for an extension.
Two versions of the same postcard view of the ferry Dundee approaching Dundee. The Dundee was in operation on the crossing from 1875 until 1917.
Photograph of a watercolour of the Mars from the east
The Mars Training Ship, extracted from A History of Newport by J S Neish (1890).
The Newport Club has a long and interesting history, dating back to when the first railway bridge was being built.
A Cynicus postcard of the Newport Railway. Cynicus was the pseudonym of Martin Anderson, an artist, political cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. His career took him all over the UK but he eventually built Castle Cynicus, high on the hill above Balmullo, and from 1902 onwards produced thousands of comic postcards from his publishing works ...
