An ex-pupil of Dundee High School, William lived at Bonawe, 35 Riverside Road, Wormit. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, France, 1st July 1916, aged just 21. On this day, the British Army suffered 60,000 casualties, 20,000 of whom were killed. By November only six miles of ground had ...
The brother of Frederick MacKenzie, he was the younger son of Frederick Thomas Mackenzie and Annie Sang Mackenzie, of Riverview, 35 Naughton Road, Wormit. John had graduated from St Andrews University. He was killed in action on 27th May 1918, aged 27, just two months after the death of his brother, and his name is recorded ...
His father had a fruiterer and florist shop at Robertson Place, Newport (bottom of Cupar Road), but he himself was a plumber. He was unmarried and the family home was at Margaretbank, 6 William Street, Newport. He was killed on 20th September 1917, aged 44, at Ypres, Belgium, and is buried at Zandwoort British Cemetery near ...
The youngest of the family who lived at Holly Cottage, 74 West Road, West Newport, he was the son of a postman. There were six children, three of each. His two brothers were twins, eight years older than Murdoch. According to a news article, at the time of Murdoch's death, one of the brothers was ...
His family home had been Woodside, 43 Queen Street, Newport before his parents moved to Aberdeen between 1914 and 1917. He died at Ypres on 18th July 1917, aged 21, and is buried at Gwalia Cemetery near Ypres, Belgium. Jame died during the early stages of the Battle of Passchendaele, which would eventually be the wettest ...
George had attended Dundee High School, and was a Cubmaster in Newport. His parents were Walter and Mary Ness of Daisybank, 11 Kerr Street, Newport. He was killed on 12th October 1917 at the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendale), and his body was never recovered. This was the wettest and muddiest battle of the war, when ...
He was the elder son of Mr and Mrs Charles Mitchell of The Firs, 2 Forgan Street, West Newport. He had attended Merchiston College, Edinburgh, where he was in the OTC, and then worked as a Chartered Accountant with Messrs Mackay Irons in Dundee. He is reported to have died in a Canadian casualty clearing station ...
He was married with two children, and had previously worked as a ploughman at Morendy Farm, which is on the road between the Five Roads roundabout and Pickletillum. At some point the family had moved to Royal Hotel Buildings, East Newport. He was killed on 5th April 1916 at Ypres, Belgium, aged 38. He is buried ...
Norman grew up with his four siblings in the family home at 24 Tayview Terrace until they were orphaned in 1900. They were then looked after by a family friend in St Phillan’s Place, Newport. Little is known about his pre-war circumstances but at some point before 1914 he emigrated to Australia. He was married ...
Thomas was the only son of George and Jeannie White, of 3 Albert Crescent, Newport. He attended Clifton Bank private school in St Andrews, where the most famous former pupil was Douglas Haig, later Field Marshall Earl Haig, commander of the British armies on the Western Front, and after the war the founder of the ...
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 ...
A news article from the Fife News of November 1963 telling the history of Wormit Tennis Club from 1913 until 1963.
Miss Pilkington died on 14 January, 2002 at the age of 100. She was given the Freedom of the Burgh in 1970.
Four amazing photographs showing the real Blyth Hall roof. In 1974 a false ceiling was installed in the hall, which no doubt helped with heating, but it hid this magnificent roof. Architect Robert Lorimer, designer of the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, and of our own Newport memorial, described this ceiling as one ...
Newspaper article on St Fillan's Church from 26 January 1957.
A closer view of St Fillan's Church on the corner of William Street and King Street.
Two views of St Fillan's Catholic Church, Newport-on-Tay, one from King Street, one from Queen Street .
Frederick and his brother Stanley were the two youngest sons in a family of five sons and three daughters. Frederick and Stanley were both killed in the war. The family lived at Norwood Cottage, 4 Wellpark Terrace, West Newport. Father Edward was a managing director of Thomas Muir, Son and Patten, a huge coal merchant ...
St Fillan's Church. A more unusual view from William Street. During World War Two, the church spire was used by Norwegian pilots to align their Catalinas on the correct flight path for landing at Woodhaven, following their secret missions over enemy-occupied Norway.
Booklet giving an account of the history of St Fillan's Free church.
A leaflet giving details of the planning, installation and use of the fine 'Father' Willis Organ in St Thomas' Church.
An analysis of Trinity Church written in 1995 by student Helen MacGregor.
Drawing of Trinity Church at the bottom of High Street. The church was opened in 1881 and closed in 2016.
A leaflet detailing the history of St Mary's Church.