A photograph of Chief Officer Flynn and the boat crews at Woodhaven, with the Mars in the background.
His father had a fruiterer and florist shop at Robertson Place, Newport (bottom of Cupar Road), but he himself was a plumber. He was unmarried and the family home was at Margaretbank, 6 William Street, Newport. He was killed on 20th September 1917, aged 44, at Ypres, Belgium, and is buried at Zandwoort British Cemetery near ...
He had attended Dundee High School, and then worked with T H B Rorie, Chartered Accountants, in Dundee. The family home was at Westmount, 12 Mount Stewart Road, Wormit. He was killed at Ypres, Belgium on 31st July 1917 at the age of 21. His body was never found, so his name is on the Menin ...
The youngest of the family who lived at Holly Cottage, 74 West Road, West Newport, he was the son of a postman. There were six children, three of each. His two brothers were twins, eight years older than Murdoch. According to a news article, at the time of Murdoch's death, one of the brothers was ...
He was the eldest of seven children; his father was the gamekeeper on Tayfield estate, and he grew up in Seamylnes Cottage. He was married to Mary McLaren née Nicol, and with their four children they lived at Gas Lane, Newport, now the site of Granary Lane Sheltered Housing. He had been a reservist and ...
Written by Ena Scott (nee Gleig) in 1989. Ena was born in 1912 and lived nearly all her life in Woodhaven and Wormit. She grew up at Woodhaven farmhouse which looked out on the Mars Training Ship, moored off Woodhaven Pier until its departure in 1929. When a squad of workers was required on the farm, ...
Willie Rankine (1890-1976) operated the family joinery business from the workshop at Woodhaven pier. His grandfather William Buist had started the business in 1875. With the death of his mother when he was an infant, Willie grew up with his grand-parents at Woodhaven. Willie had a lifelong interest in the local area and its history. ...
Written by Ena Scott (nee Gleig) in 1989. Ena was born in 1912 and lived nearly all her life in Woodhaven and Wormit, dying in Newport in 1998. She grew up at Woodhaven farmhouse and moved to Naughton Road after her marriage. My parents came to Woodhaven Farm in 1907. At that time the estate was ...
Recollections of Ena Scott (Gleig) in 1989. After the Mars boys had gathered stones from it, the field down at Wormit Bay became Wormit Bay Golf Club. It opened in 1912, and was a very popular 9 hole course. Local people donated cups and trophies, and then a very attractive clubhouse was built where for many ...
Written by Ena Scott (nee Gleig) in 1989. Ena was born in 1912 and lived nearly all her life in Woodhaven and Wormit. The Boating Club formed in January 1911 and was mainly a rowing club. The first clubhouse was mainly just a shed at Wormit Bay, then a clubhouse and sheds were built east of ...
Written by Ena Scott (nee Gleig) in 1989. Ena was born in 1912 and lived nearly all her life in Woodhaven and Wormit. The Bowling Club started at the beginning of this century 1901 and many business men were the first members. At one time bowling was considered to be men only and it was not ...
Written by Ena Scott (nee Gleig) in 1989. Ena grew up at Woodhaven Farm and started school in Wormit in 1917. I had perfect attendance at Wormit School and only once in my life did I get the strap. That was when an inspector called and the headmaster had to leave the class unattended while he ...
Newscutting reporting conferral of Military Cross on Augustine (Austen) Keenan. Austen was a member of a large family living at Mackie Place, 58 West Road.
His family home had been Woodside, 43 Queen Street, Newport before his parents moved to Aberdeen between 1914 and 1917. He died at Ypres on 18th July 1917, aged 21, and is buried at Gwalia Cemetery near Ypres, Belgium. Jamie died during the early stages of the Battle of Passchendaele, which would eventually be the wettest ...
Miss Pilkington died on 14 January, 2002 at the age of 100. She was given the Freedom of the Burgh in 1970.
A newspaper letter about James Tait who was missionary to the boys on the Mars training ship for 48 years. It was written to the Newspaper by Willie Rankine of Woodhaven.
He was the elder son of Mr and Mrs Charles Mitchell of The Firs, 2 Forgan Street, West Newport. He had attended Merchiston College, Edinburgh, where he was in the OTC, and then worked as a Chartered Accountant with Messrs Mackay Irons in Dundee. He is reported to have died in a Canadian casualty clearing station ...
Sidney's mother had been widowed 20 years earlier, and the family lived at Cliftonbank, Cupar Road, Newport. He had three sisters, all much older than him. He was the only son, no doubt much loved by all the family. He was killed, aged 31, on 9th April 1917, during the Allied Arras offensive, and his name ...
Model of East Newport Railway Station created for 2016 Old Newport Exhibition. Spot the level crossing, footbridge, phone box, station building, railway carriage on platform, two coal merchants, sidings, signal box and up platform shelter. A very realistic representation!
Postcard of Newport with five images: High Street; Newport Pier; Newport from the Pier; the Beach; and HMS Vulcan. All pre-World War I.
The residents of Newport and Wormit have always enjoyed 'strutting their stuff' in musical and dramatic productions. There have been groups of all sorts catering for singers, dancers and budding actors and actresses.
George had attended Dundee High School, and was a Cubmaster in Newport. His parents were Walter and Mary Ness of Daisybank, 11 Kerr Street, Newport. He was killed on 12th October 1917 at the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendale), and his body was never recovered. This was the wettest and muddiest battle of the war, when ...
Netherlea was a large family house standing between Newport and Wormit.
Two stained glass panes from the staircase window in Netherlea House, demolished in 2019.
