A group of staff who helped run the Rio Youth Club in the 1970s. Read the memories of one of these staff members.
Round Table dinner, possibly taken at St Michaels Inn.
The annual Round Table fete held in the grounds of Tayfield.
Newport Round Table members in very fancy dress 1970s.
Tankard produced in 1989 to celebrate the 21st Charter Dinner of Newport-on-Tay (Scotscraig) Round Table. The tankard lists 23 past Chairmen. 1967 Ian Dow; 1968 Kinnear Baxter; 1969 Stanley Turner; 1970 Colin Vincent; 1971 George Dignan; 1972 Eddie Grimes; 1973 Gordon Small; 1974 Harry McLeod; 1975 Dave Smith; 1976 Ken Honeyman; 1977 Nick Cargill; 1978 Fraser ...
Round Table outing to Dewar's in Perth in 1970s.
Sandford Country House Hotel reminders - hotel brochure 1999, tarriff card from 1966 and Christmas menu from 1998.
Since 1879 Newport School has fulfilled the educational needs of the village, first on the site in Blyth Street, then from 1977 on the outskirts of the village on the Cupar Road.
Wormit School opened in 1896 on the Main road through the village. In 1978 it was replaced by the new school on the hill.
News cutting describing how the Scotscraig went on to further fame as a film star. Both the Abercraig and Scotscraig ended their ferrying days in Malta, but the Scotscraig then went on to star in the Popeye film.
Scouts and Cubs have been active in Newport and Wormit for over 100 years.
Seacraig Garage on King Street. From the 1920s until c. 1990 the garage occupied a substantial area of King Street. From 1940 onwards the garage was owned and managed by Robert Don of the blacksmith family. It provided all the usual services with a showroom for new cars, an extensive workshop and of course petrol ...
The Phoenix Drama Group's cast for Shadow in the Sun 1972. Director James Corkhill (left) giving last minute instructions before their performance in the West Hall, Wormit. The Phoenix Drama group had developed in the early 1970s from a combination of the Blythe Players and the Green Room Club.
Until fairly recently the building at 1 Gowrie Street was always a shop. For most of its life it was a grocery store, but in its earliest days in the 1850s and 1860s it appears to have housed a bakery. Our photographs date from the 1970s and 1980s when it was run under the Spar ...
Sketch of Newport School after closure in 1977. The image was used on a greetings card.
An account from Historic Scotland explaining the background to the building of St Fillan's Catholic Church in Newport. The church, a most unusual style, was opened in 1893.
A closer view of St Fillan's Church on the corner of William Street and King Street.
St Fillan's Church. A more unusual view from William Street. During World War Two, the church spire was used by Norwegian pilots to align their Catalinas on the correct flight path for landing at Woodhaven, following their secret missions over enemy-occupied Norway.
St Mary's Church choir in 1970s with Rev Rodney Stone. Rev Stone was at St Mary's from 1973 until 1991.
The memorial window in St Mary's Church. The window commemorates C Douglas Mitchell of Kirk Road, West Newport who died, aged 20, on 26 March 1918.
St Mary's Church then and now. The early photograph gives a wonderful view of the fairly new St Mary's, built 1886 - 1887. Older neighbours the Congregational Church (1868), Newport School (1879) and the tower of St Thomas' (1870) are just visible behind, while Tayfield Estate office can be seen on the right. There's just ...
The stunningly beautiful interior of St Mary's Episcopal Church on the steps between Kilnburn and the High Street.
A history of the Church of St Thomas of the Seamylnes, written by Fraser Ritchie in1983. It covers the period from the planning of the church in the late 1860s until its union with St Fillan's Church in 1978 and with Forgan Church in 1981, thereafter becoming Newport-on-Tay Church of Scotland.
Two drawings showing plans for the extension to St Thomas' Church in 1902. Plans were drawn on 24 May 1901. As can be seen on second drawing the area of the church would be more than doubled, from a very simple rectangle shape to a building with increased seating in new transepts, as well as ...
