A busy day on Cupar Road early 1900s. Almost traffic jam conditions with three horse drawn carriages in view. On the left are the familiar shops of Robertson Place - Mathewson the greengrocer, Doig the chemist, Mackay the painter and Kirk and Coutts the ironmonger. On the right is the delivery wagon belonging to Robert ...
Elephants lined up outside the pier buildings waiting for the ferry. It was common practice a century ago for circus animals to walk from town to town between shows, with excited school-children sometimes being allowed out of class to see them pass.
An action view of the Mars boys aboard small boats at Woodhaven pier, with Rock House in the background. This old granary building was used as a hospital for the Mars boys.
These photographs show three more Newport Police Burgh boundary stones discovered in Spring 2021. The first split one is on the left grass verge of the track up to Causewayhead, and has probably been moved from the field next to it. The second photo shows the stone, in excellent condition, which is in the field ...
Big Rock on Newport Braes has always been a good place to pose for a picture. This is Jack Barlow, later of Betsworth and Barlow plumbers. Jack was born in 1906 which probably dates this photograph to around the outbreak of World War I. Two piers in the background.
This is a Victorian bee house, beautifully restored in 2020. It is one of only five known in Scotland, and probably the only wooden one. It has now been listed as a building of historical importance. It is believed to have been brought to Tayfield by boat around 1850. The actual hives were on shelves ...
The story of Wormit's Steele and Brodie beehive works from Brian Nish.
A postcard of what is now Cupar Road looking from the junction with High Street. Early 1900's.
Framed view towards Woodhaven with Mars boats in foreground. Rock House stands on the shore beside the harbour. This was originally the granary for the St Fort Estate. While the Mars training ship was anchored offshore, the building was used as a hospital for the boys, and during World War II it housed the officers of ...
The Mars Training Ship was berthed in the Tay off Woodhaven from 1869-1929. This panel was stitched by Cat Jones.
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.
Tayfield duckpond, where children from the village have fed the ducks for over a century. The cairn is no longer there.
Another view of the duckpond.
This postcard from the early 1900s shows Tayfield duck pond.
The Den cottages were in an idyllic setting and were the subject of many picture postcards in the early 20th century.
Two versions of the same postcard view of the ferry Dundee approaching Dundee. The Dundee was in operation on the crossing from 1875 until 1917.
This medicine bottle from Doig the chemist was dug up in the garden of Hazel Cottage (66 West Road). From the late 1870s William Doig had chemist shops both in Newport and in Dundee (as the bottle says). He eventually gave up the Dundee shop in the early 1900s which gives a date for the ...
Another version of the much photographed view down the High Street, this time from around 1910.
Two versions of the same postcard, one coloured, showing the Fifeshire steam ferry. The Fifeshire was in operation on the crossing from 1858 until 1929, an astonishing 71 years.
An early postcard view of one of the Fifies, probably the Dundee, approaching Newport pier. The Dundee operated on the crossing from 1875 until 1917.
A view towards West Newport past the brig Francis Molison. The ship was used by the boys of the Mars Training Ship to learn seamanship skills. Castle Brae climbs the hill on the left and on the right are the houses of Westfield Terrace.
Traditional Remembrance services were cancelled in November 2020 due to Covid19 restrictions. Newport Primary school however were keen to record their own remembrances. The pupils in P6 and P7 decorated stones to their own designs. Some took names from the panels on the Newport war memorial, while others feature the easily recognised poppies. These photographs ...
The viaduct that carried the railway line through the Tayfield Estate comprised four spans on three columns. It was removed soon after the line closed. Picture 1 shows the series of supports that carried the viaduct, 2 the present day retaining wall at the other side of the gap, and 3 is a rare view ...
Newport football team 1913 photographed outside the pavilion at Windmill Park. Back row L-R: J G Spark; A S Cram; R Wali; W Rankine; J Dunlevy; J R Niven. Front row L-R: W Tait; T W Scroggie; I W Fairweather; S R Low (Capt); J Wannan; W Crighton; W R Brown; H H Smith (Secy & Treas).