Newspaper cutting describing the matters discussed at the annual business meeting of the Newport Unionist Club on 17 March 1908. Reference is made to the establishment of a Women's Unionist Association in Newport. From 1900 until mid 1920s the Unionist Clubrooms were in the hall accommodation above the Cupar Road shops. The whole block, both ...
A newspaper article entitled Where Sport is Self-Supporting. It is from the Scotsman in 1962, long before we had a sports centre, and it gives details of Newport's fine sporting tradition.
Newscutting giving details of the last train journey from Newport to Dundee. It describes the 'funeral procession' and their actions.
Newscutting describing the journey on the last train from Newport to Dundee Saturday 3 May 1969.
Newscutting explaining how nearly 12 years after closure in 1969 Wormit station was saved. It was bought by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society and rebuilt as a station at their working steam museum at Bo'ness
Newspaper article from 18 August 1966 reporting on the last sailing of the Fifie that day.
Newspaper Article from May 2020 recalling the events of May 1955 when a picnic train from Tayport crashed at Wormit Station.
Newspaper article with memories of the Tay Bridge Disaster 50 years after the event.
Newspaper cutting about Steele and Brodie.
A newspaper cutting from the 1850s, reporting on the opening of another bowling green in Newport, one much less well known than the one in Scott Street. This one was directly over the road from the Newport Inn, where St Mary's Church now stands.
Fife Herald article about TNT's production of Sweeney Todd
Rankine's joinery business was situated in what is known as The Old Boathouse at Woodhaven until the 1990s. This newspaper article describes the firm at the time of its centenary in 1975.
Newspaper cutting detailing the arrangements made to allow the old folk of Newport and Wormit to attend the opening of the road bridge.
Newspaper cutting describing the events taking place in Newport to celebrate the opening of the Road Bridge. They take place over the weekend of 19 August 1966 - 21 August 1966.
Two newscuttings from the opening of the Rio Cinema in 1939. One describes the opening by Provost George Rain Little, (provost 1937-1940), when he was presented with an umbrella! (Was this an appropriate gift for a man of his name?!) The other gives details of the opening film that Thursday evening, Sixty Glorious Years, starring ...
An article from a 1964 edition of the People's Friend, accompanying the front page photograph of Newport's Boat Road.
A newspaper cutting explaining how the name of Peter Black, a 'deserter' in World War I, was added to the Newport War Memorial.
Newspaper cutting from 2004 referring to the toppling of a tree planted by King Haakon at Woodhaven in 1944. He was visiting the Norwegian 333 Squadron based there during WWII. The article explains the Norwegian arrival at Woodhaven and their activities while there. Strong links have been maintained since their departure in 1945.
Newspaper article giving details of the duties and problems encountered by the local 'bobby' at Wormit at the very start of the 20th century. The article is written by Willie Rankine of Woodhaven.
A newspaper cutting photograph of Forgan Church members making a presentation to their minister Rev Albert Bogie. This was on the occasion of his forthcoming marriage in 1978.
Newspaper photograph of rededication ceremony of Mars boys' commemoration stone and plaque.
Newspaper account of the boys on the Mars training ship, printed in 1989 on the 60th anniversary of the ship leaving the Tay.
A news cutting reporting Sandy Rankine's retiral in 1993, and a letter from Norwegian 333 squadron offering their congratulations and best wishes, and their appreciation of the way in which Sandy and his father Willie had maintained the strong friendship with 333 Squadron in the years since WWII.
A review of TNT's Bugsy Malone in October 1992