The stunningly beautiful interior of St Mary's Episcopal Church on the steps between Kilnburn and the High Street.
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 ...
Two views of St Fillan's Catholic Church, Newport-on-Tay, one from King Street, one from Queen Street .
Those of a certain age will remember using these old stamp machines. You popped in your penny, or two or three (old pennies of course, pre-decimalisation of 1971), and out came your stamp. In the days when snail mail was the only form of communication, these machines were lifelines when the post office was closed. ...
Three photographs of children taking part in some of the shows put on by Donna Vincent's Swingsing group. Swingsing ran from 2002 until 2017.
Photograph of the Tay Rail Bridge and Tay Bridge South signal box. Photographed sometime after the closure of the Newport Railway. The signal box sat in the junction of the two lines.
News article from the Courier in 2012. Network Rail's chief engineer claims that the bridge's fine construction, combined with ongoing maintenance and strengthening, has made it a 'feat of engineering'.
In 2016 the Tay Road Bridge celebrated 50 years. In that time there have been several changes to the appearance and the operation of the bridge.
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 ...
Photograph of the Berry Family tree, 1725-2016.
The Newport Club has a long and interesting history, dating back to when the first railway bridge was being built.
For more than 25 years from the early 1980s until 2007 hundreds of local youngsters showed off their skills in some spectacular TNT shows. TNT was one of the earliest youth theatre groups, and certainly the first in this area. Sadly it ended in 2007. Our photograph shows their remaining funds being donated to Tearfund, ...
A History of the Yellow Castle on West Road.
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.
Between 1983 and 2007 highly successful Arts and Crafts exhibitions were held annually in Wormit. They were organised by members of Wormit Church to raise funds for the West Hall where the exhibitions were mounted. Fife Council matched the money raised. Previously Wormit Church had organised annual Flower and Bulb shows. When these came to ...
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.
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.)
Ministers of both Wormit Churches from 1898 until 2020.
Syllabus cards for Wormit Church Women's Guild from 1973 until 2020.
After the closure of Wormit Station in May 1969, it gradually became quite derelict. Eleven years later however, a reprieve came for Wormit station when it was purchased by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society. The station was carefully dismantled and removed to Bo’ness where it is still part of the society’s working steam museum. These two photographs show ...
