Two trees planted in Tayfield in 1966 to celebrate opening of the Road Bridge. Like the bridge itself, they have flourished!
Trinity Church High Street.
A view of the interior of Trinity Church.
Drawing by Keith Robson in 1986 of Trinity Church at the bottom of High Street. The church was opened in 1881 and closed in 2016.
Two toilet flush pull chains from local plumbers, Betsworth and Barlow who operated between 1894-1970s and James Jack and Sons, 1880-1980.
Memories from Stewart Montgomery It was Royal Buildings which started the old memory cells ticking away. It's likely that what I'm about to say is, in the main, well documented in your records but I'll continue anyway. I arrived in Newport in 1963 at the age of 14 and until I was 21 I lived at ...
Two drawings of West Newport station, a black and white version and coloured. They were done by Keith Robson in 1988.
Information Board on the site of West Newport station, erected by Newport, Wormit and Forgan Community Council in 2010.
Green-fingered stationmaster Chris Anderson, who was responsible for West Newport station winning prizes in the Best Kept Station competition, receives an award for his efforts from Provost Smith.
Ready to Roll at Windmill Park. Pavilion in background.
Woodhaven corner before the field in the foreground was filled with houses. Straight ahead is the window of the local shop, and on the right is the Rankine family cottage. Local youngsters have memories of sledging in this field.
A description of and explanation of the background to the Leng Cup and the Memorial Cup. These are the cups competed for by Wormit Boating Club.
This gavel was made by Alistair Monro of Monifieth from the wood of the laburnum tree planted at Woodhaven in 1944 to commemorate a visit by King Haakon of Norway that year. The Norwegian Airforce 333 Squadron was stationed at Woodhaven during the war. It was given to Wormit Boating Club for use by the ...
Wormit Boating Club Memorial Cup. Subscriptions from members allowed the purchase of the cup in 1948 to commemorate the sixteen members of the club lost during World War II. It is awarded as an annual club series trophy. (Wrongly labelled on photographs.)
Wormit Bowling Club Badge, instituted 1901.
News article from 4.7.1979 telling of the 40th year reunion in 1979 of the Wormit Church Girls' Association.
Wormit Church Golden Year. A news article from 1983 featuring Wormit Church celebrating 50 years since the union of Wormit's two churches, Wormit East and Wormit West.
Booklet The History of Wormit Church, produced in 2000 and written by Audrey Conway.
Ministers of both Wormit Churches from 1898 until 2020.
Wormit Guides and Brownies celebrate their 60th birthday in December 1989. Mrs Edith Todd, who was responsible for starting the Guides and Brownies in the Newport area in 1929, cut the 60th birthday cake at a joint meeting of the 1st and 2nd Wormit Brownies and the 1st Wormit Guides at a special reunion in ...
Drawing of Newport-bound steam train at Wormit station, drawn by Keith Robson in 1988. Wormit station dates from 1889, two years after the opening of the second railway bridge.
Drawing of Wormit station by local artist Thomas Halliday. Halliday lived in Wormit until 1998 and we also have his drawings of Wormit School and Wormit Church.
Information page on Wormit station from a 1960s railway booklet.
Wormit station after a heavy fall of snow, probably in the 1960s.
