Booklet produced in 2006 to celebrate forty years since the opening of the Tay Road Bridge.
For almost 30 years from the 1960s until the 1990s a tall lemon tree grew beside the Tay road bridge - or so it seemed! Early in the bridge's history, the toll collectors started to hang Jif plastic lemons on a tree growing close to the collection booths. Each year the lemons were carefully hung ...
Memorial column on roundabout at south end of road bridge. This memorial is in memory of the five workmen who died during road bridge construction, and of contractor Willie Logan who died in 1966 when his private plane crashed near Inverness. He never saw his bridge completed. The memorial is in the shape of one ...
Booklet produced in 1996 to celebrate thirty years since the opening of the Tay Road Bridge.
Pony rides at Tayfield Nursery in 1971.
Photograph of the Berry Family tree, 1725-2016.
Newscutting from February 1971 reporting the completion a few months earlier of the new Maryton housing development in King Street. It was considered a huge success with representatives from other local authorities coming to see it. All the landscaping around the development had been carried out before any of the residents had moved in, adding ...
The Newport Club has a long and interesting history, dating back to when the first railway bridge was being built.
A History of the Yellow Castle on West Road.
Photograph of Thomas Halliday, designer of Newport-on-Tay coat of arms. At the time of his death in 1998 he was Scotland's oldest working artist, sculptor and stained glass artist.
Council meeting in Newport-on-Tay in the Blyth Hall in 1971. Back Row L-R: K Pritchard (burgh prosecutor), John Herald (depute town clerk), Jack Morton (burgh surveyor), James Duncan (burgh chamberlain), David McLaren, R Paterson. Front Row L-R: Rev Robert Howieson, Alex Gilruth (town clerk), S Zimmerman (Baillie), Provost Gordon Soutar (Provost 1968-71), Randolph Webster (Baillie), Margaret McLeod, ...
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.
This photograph shows the waiting room at Lovaine.
William Willocks had a well-known joinery and undertaker business in Newport from the 1930s with the name continuing until 1981. His main workshop was at the top of Robert Street, but he had various other premises too. He had a workshop in Wormit and for many years from the 1940s until the 1960s he operated ...
Time for the three-legged race at Newport School sports at Windmill Park early 1970s.
To celebrate their 10th anniversary as a youth club, the Rio held a week of activities. They included the women's football match at Waterstone Crook.
These photographs were taken by Bill Croll, mostly in the 1970s, and show the activities of Wormit Boating Club. The club moved to their new premises at Woodhaven in 1969 and the first three photographs show work being carried out on the new clubhouse which was built between 1970 and 1971. The others are taken ...
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.)
