Last crossing made by the Scotscraig on 18 August 1966. The ferry is packed with passengers and just visible at the left of the picture is the new road bridge, opened earlier that day.
The train pulls into East Newport station for the final time on a wet May evening. Crowds acknowledge the significance of the occasion from their vantage point on the footbridge over the line.
The last train at West Newport station on 5th May 1969.
The son of John and Janet Latto of 2 Maryfield Terrace (now 35 Gowrie Street), Newport, he was a member of the Latto family who have been joiners in Newport for four generations. Ian was an artist with D.C.Thomson. He had been in the Boys’ Brigade as a lad, and then the Home Guard. He ...
This small yacht is the Aeolus, launched and named at the old pier by Mrs Dunlop of Kilnburn, probably in early 1960s. Some of the older Newport boys had restored the yacht on the beach. Up above on the right the residents of the old granary have a grandstand view of proceedings. Note the large ...
The youngest of a family of four, his family home was Helen Villa, 49 Bay Road, Wormit. He had worked as a teller at the British Linen Bank in West Port, Dundee, and was one of the first Wormit men to enlist at the outbreak of war. He was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch ...
This young man, who was an electrician in a jute mill in Dundee, had been in the Newport ATC. He possibly lived at 37 Queen Street, Newport. He was on parade for the arrival of a VIP at Leuchars and collapsed with either pneumonia or pleurisy. He was taken to Edinburgh Military Hospital, where a chest ...
He was the son of Henry and Clara Lees of Tayside, 55 Cupar Road, Newport. He attended Dundee High School He was reported missing, presumed dead on 2nd July 1940, aged 23. He is buried at Rozenburg cemetery, on a small island west of Rotterdam. His name is on the Dundee High School memorial plaque, and ...
He was the son of Andrew Leitch, a Provost of Newport, whose home was at Netherlea, West Road, Newport (now demolished). Thomas had emigrated to Canada in 1907, and was a successful businessman. He joined the Canadian Army at the outbreak of war, and was sent to France in 1915. He was wounded twice, and ...
Detail of the ceiling in the Leng Chapel.
Leng Chapel Inscription Panel. The Memorial to John Leng's first wife Dame Emily Leng, and also remembrance of his second wife Mary.
The Leng Chapel at Vicarsford Cemetery, two miles south of Newport. Built on a hill, the chapel is a memorial to John Leng's first wife Emily.
He was the grandson of Sir John Leng of Kinbrae House and the son of John Adam St Quentin Leng and Mary Blyth Johnson of Seymour House, 111 Tay Street, Newport (now Riverview Lodge Care Home). He worked in the family firm of newspaper publishers in Dundee, and had four sisters and a younger brother, ...
Newport Life Boys enjoying a sausage sizzle to the west of the rail bridge in the late 1950s. Leaders are Ron Caird, Dorothy Howitt and Rosamunde Morton. The Junior Section of the Boys' Brigade was previously known as Life Boys.
A postcard view of Linden Avenue looking west. These houses were built in the early 1890s by local builder Alexander Robertson.
A very new looking Linden Avenue, with empty street and bare gardens. The railway embankment is on the left. The houses here were built early 1890s.
An early postcard of Linden Avenue, Newport. On the left, the railway line crosses the bridge at the top of Victoria Street. On the right, the first house now has a large gate cut into the corner of the stone wall.
His widowed mother lived at 12 St Fort Road, Woodhaven. He had two brothers, and a sister who died as a child. He was initially in the infantry, and was severely wounded, then subsequently joined the Royal Flying Corps. In April 1918 the RFC merged with the Royal Naval Air Service to become the Royal ...
Local ATC A Hogg, R Porter, J Dorward, J Fairlie, R Kilpatrick, H Robb, A Duncan, J Campbell, W McIntyre L Leslie, ?, D Leddie, R Walker, H McMillan, T Moag, T Burnet, R Howitt, H Burnet G Patrick, W Leslie, T Robertson, A W Keith, H Muir, W Wighton, D McLaren, R Bennett
Local ATC ?, W McIntyre, T Taylor, W Braid, ? Knox, ?, C Edgar, D Clark I McIntosh, G Patrick, ?, I Robb, J Campbell, ?, R Walker, ?, J Leddie W Leslie, R Bennet, D McLaren, A Melville, Keith, H Muir, D Lawson, J Carstairs, S Taylor, ? ?, R Porter, A Hogg, J Fairlie
Three Newport butcher shops.
This house was built for Dr John Stewart in the 1870s, and used as a doctor's residence and GP surgery for over 100 years. From the 1930s, Lovaine was occupied by Dr Taylor, who was later succeeded by three generations of Drs Mackintosh. It was last used as a surgery by Dr Macleod, until purpose ...
The general practice surgery was at the rear of the building, entered through the back yard.
Romance at Newport Tennis Club. Pictured are Ken Guttridge and Florence Clark. The inscription on the back of the photograph is 'When we first met at Newport Tennis Club 1947’. Happy to report they had a long and happy marriage!