News article from the Tayport, Newport and Wormit Advertiser of September 1926 reporting on Newport Hockey Club. A meeting had been held intimating the fixtures for the new season not just for the first eleven but also for a second eleven. The hockey club had been formed around 1907, and although temporarily disbanded during World ...
During 2019-2020 this ground at the rear of the Newport Hotel was being cleared for possible future house building. The photographs show what appears to be extensive cellar space. These cellars would have provided storage space below the old stabling for the inn.
Programme for Newport Musical Society's production of The Legend of St Yvonne on 10th and 11th December 1926 in the Blyth Hall. The programme was signed by several of the members. Sam Guttridge was organist for the production, and head of a well known musical family in Newport. There are also signatures from three members ...
Newport on Tay Parish Church. An extract from Places of Worship in Scotland, a survey undertaken by Scottish Church Heritage Research.
A newspaper photograph dated 9 January 1926 showing Newport Operatic Society's performance of Iolanthe.
Newport Parish Supplement was the St Thomas' Church forerunner to the present-day Church journal. We only have single pages (two pages in one case) from three copies of the Supplement, from November 1922, November 1923 and January 1924. They are full of interesting snippets of information - it would be wonderful to have complete issues, ...
A brief outline of Newport's development over the last 200 years.
News article reporting on the extension of Newport Pier in 1928. The pier had been lengthened and widened, and a new waiting room added, capable of accommodating up to 400 people! The opening ceremony would be carried out by Mr B L Nairn and Lord Provost William High.
Set of four photographs showing the 1928 extension to Newport pier under construction. The huge increase in motor traffic at the beginning of the twentieth century required an improvement in the facilities at the pier. It was therefore lengthened and broadened, and a low water landing stage was built, all of which would render much ...
Framed painting of the pier smiddy.
Photograph showing the Newport Police Burgh boundary stone at the junction of Kirk Road and Cupar Road. It may have been moved from the other side of the road.
Photograph showing the Newport Police Burgh boundary stone which marked the most westerly limit of the burgh boundary. This stone is embedded in the concrete at the base of the Tay Bridge Disaster memorial at Wormit Bay. The letters NPB can be seen clearly.
Three photographs showing Newport Police Burgh boundary stones which marked the boundary of the burgh. These three stones are in the field above Kirk Road. The letters NPB are clearly seen and two of the stones are in remarkably good condition.
These photographs show three more Newport Police Burgh boundary stones discovered in Spring 2021. The first split one is on the left grass verge of the track up to Causewayhead, and has probably been moved from the field next to it. The second photo shows the stone, in excellent condition, which is in the field ...
Two photographs showing the Newport Police Burgh boundary stone which marked the eastmost limit of the burgh boundary. This stone is near the shore beyond the road bridge. The letters NPB can just be deciphered.
The only photograph we have ever seen of the inside of the old post office. This is Lillian Knight who lived at Royal Buildings, and who worked in the post office in the 1920s and 1930s.
Two photographs of the Newport Rechabites, probably 1920s. The Rechabites were a branch of the Temperance Association.
A lovely group pictured outside Newport School in the mid-1920s. On the left is Sheila McIntosh, and behind her is John Muirhead her future husband. Romance at Newport School! Their son Jim Muirhead would become Scotland's most successful paralympian.
Lovely group of Newport schoolgirls from late 1920s posing in front of the side railing of the playground in Blyth Street. The Blyth Hall and church in background.
Photographs from the leavers' class of 1975 at Newport School. A reunion was held in the Brig o' Tay in June 2023 to celebrate 60 years since most of the class were born! See the class in P1 and in P7.
The old Newport School clock, salvaged from the demolition site after Newport School closed in 1977.
These are the Newport School medals of the Smith family who lived in Woodbine House at 11 King Street. From Left to right: The Fraser medal, presented by Rev Thomas Fraser, minister of St Thomas' Church from 1870 until 1913. Awarded to David L Smith, Dux boy, Session 1920-21. The Dr T P Stewart medal presented by Dr ...
Medals presented to Newport School pupils, 1926-1966. Medals included Fraser Medal, Forrest Medal, Douglas Mitchell Medal, Dr T P Stewart Medal, Gavin Arthur Wilson Medal, James Minty Medal.
Photo of Newport Higher Grade School , 1928, Miss Rose's class. Back row: Yvonne Kay; Gladys Jack; Doreen Burgess; Nan Philips; Jock Gordon; Margaret McEwan; Findlay Urquhart; Barbara Baxter; Gertie Burgess; Betty Carstairs. Front row: Marguerite Fairweather; Marjorie Mutch; Evelyn Smith; Alison Dewar; May Davidson; Muriel Fitzpatrick.
