A steam train on rail bridge heading for Wormit Station.
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 ...
A very early view of an immaculate Wormit station.
View towards Wormit from the railway station.
Wormit station after a heavy fall of snow, probably in the 1960s.
This is a group from Wormit Sunday school in 1959, with all the children looking particularly angelic.
A group of players at Wormit Tennis Club in the early 1950s, posing outside the old clubhouse.
A fancy dress event for Wormit Tennis Club members in early 1950s.
New pavilion at Wormit Tennis Club, opened in 1961.
A group of Wormit Tennis Club players in 1950s. Not sure of the location.
Prize-giving at Wormit Tennis Club around 1979.
Junior prize-giving at Wormit Tennis Club. This was probably in 1982 and could have been the North Fife Junior Tournament.
A large crowd of spectators, all in their finery, at Wormit Tennis Club possibly around 1910. An equally large crowd looks on from the road above. I don't suppose we will ever know what the occasion might be.
Doubles match at Wormit Tennis Club 1950s.
Group of players on the balcony of the new Wormit tennis pavilion which was opened in 1961.
A series of photographs showing the opening of the Wormit Tennis Club courts for the 1992 season.
Photograph showing a scene from A Tennis Racket, a fund-raising show put on by Wormit Tennis club in 1956. The show was presented in the Wormit West hall on Bay Road, and it was intended to raise money in support of the recently re-formed Wormit Tennis Club. We also have a programme from the show, ...
Wormit branch of Tufty Club in 1982. Squirrel Tufty taught children road safety.
Wormit branch of Tufty Club c. 1976. Squirrel Tufty taught children road safety.
Wormit War Memorial, at the junction of Naughton Road and Mount Stewart Road. The memorial was unveiled on 4 December 1920, and has the names of the eighteen Wormit men who died in World War 1. Their names are also on the Newport memorial - it's the memorial for Newport, Wormit and Forgan. However the ...
The West Church on Bay Road just after its union with the East Church on Riverside Road. It is now Wormit Church west hall.
Removing the vent from the roof of Wormit West Church in Bay Road.
Charles grew up in East Newport, at Meldrum Square, (Robert Street), but in the King Street block, in a family of three sons, Robert, Charles and John. Father John worked as coachman then chauffeur for Doctor Stewart, the first doctor in Newport. All three sons, and father John also, fought in the war. Brother Robert ...
Victor’s mother had died in 1937 and he and his brother and two sisters spent time in the Dundee Orphanage. Eventually his father found a new partner and the children moved back to the family home at Rose Cottage, 87 Riverside Road, Wormit. He joined up in 1944 aged 19. Just six months later, as the ...