Ex-Guiders celebrating 60 years of Guiding in Newport. 1983.
News article from 2006 reporting the gifting to Dundee of a model of the ferry Scotscraig, the last Fifie on the crossing between Dundee and Newport.
An evening crossing by the Fifie, quite probably the B L Nairn.
Newspaper article about the last employees on the Tay ferries.
A view of the 'new' Forgan Church, opened in 1841. In 1981 the congregation united with those of St Thomas' and St Fillan's churches and Forgan Church closed.
Forgan Parish Church 850 years 1124 - 1974. Fund-raising gift day envelope 15 September 1974.
Order of Service from the service commemorating 900 years of a church in Forgan Parish. Newport-on-Tay Church of Scotland organised an open-air service on Sunday 18 August 2024, in the grounds of the old ruined Forgan Church.
Members of Forgan WRI drama group in 1963. Forgan WRI members put on a drama show most years, and in 1964 won the Top Town music and drama national competition.
From the 1940s until the 1970s Frank Smith had his newsagent/book shop on the High Street (now number 32). It was the favourite shop for youngsters, always keen for their weekly comic 'fix', as well as for books, toys and models galore. Many young lads had their first employment with Frank as paper boys delivering ...
Glass pane from the lamp of Provost Newell who lived at 18 Prospect Terrace, and was Provost from 1963 until 1965.
For the last 100 years there have been groups of Brownies and Guides in both Newport and Wormit, catering for all ages.
Our High Street has been home to a tremendous range of shops and businesses over the years, with many firm family favourites among them.
A magazine article from 1974 noting the history of the joinery business based at Woodhaven. It was started by William Buist in 1875, continued by his grandson William Rankine after World War I, and taken over by next generation Sandy Rankine in the 1960s.
Leaflet outlining the history of Sandford House.
Document outlining the history of St Fillan's RC Church from 1886 until 1995. A list of parish priests in the same period is included.
A leaflet detailing the history of St Mary's Church.
A History of the Newport Club, written in 1983 by W R Nicolson.
Interior view of St Fillan's Catholic Church in King Street, Newport-on-Tay.
The first photograph is J T Young's pick-up truck on Boat Road opposite his garage, probably in the 1960s. This picture was taken by Cyril Wilson, a keen local amateur photographer. The second photograph looks like the same pick-up truck. This one was sent to us recently (2024) by Shaun Atkinson of Dundee Museum of ...
Not exactly sure what the function of this object was, but it certainly advertises the wares at Jannetta's Pierhead Cafe. The Jannetta family had operated their restaurant business on Boat Brae since the early 1930s. By the 1960s and 1970s it was affectionately known for some reason as Stinky's, and for the youth of Newport ...
Lovely view of this gleaming Ford Consul parked on Tay Street, and it's clearly the focus of the photograph, but the picture earns its place in our archive thanks to the background. Jimmy Fairlie's shop was here in the old Royal Buildings all through the 1960s until the buildings were demolished in 1971. Thereafter he ...
For over 100 years two families in particular dominated the joinery business in Newport and Woodhaven.
During World War II King Haakon of Norway visited the Norwegian forces based at Woodhaven three times. At least once he was accommodated at Dunvarlich on Riverside Road, one of several houses in Newport that were used for military purposes during the war. Prior to that visit a period en suite from the 1930s was ...
A lovely old photograph of Kirk Road in the snow, before the trees were cut down and the road widened to allow safer road and pedestrian traffic to the new Newport Primary School (1977).
