Two stained glass panes from the staircase window in Netherlea House, demolished in 2019.
The old Newport School clock, salvaged from the demolition site after Newport School closed in 1977.
Long time Newport resident, Henry Burnett shares his memories of Newport and Wormit shops.
Stanley Gordon is a long-term resident of Newport and remembers many of the village shops from the 1950s .
Stop Me and Buy One. Finest Cream Ices from the Pierhead Cafe. Ice cream cart (and dogs) outside Sandy Rankine's cottage immediately above Woodhaven Pier. From the 1930s until the 1970s the Pierhead Cafe, now 1 Boat Brae, was run by the Jannetta family.
Ex-Guides and Guiders gathered to celebrate 50 years of Guiding in Newport. 1973.
An explanation of the origins of Wormit Boating Club. Note that the club moved to Woodhaven in 1971, with the new clubhouse being built the following year.
A magazine article from 1974 noting the history of the joinery business based at Woodhaven. It was started by William Buist in 1875, continued by his grandson William Rankine after World War I, and taken over by next generation Sandy Rankine in the 1960s.
Workers at the Scottish Sand and Gravel Company at Newton Quarry, just outside Wormit. Possibly around 1950.
Newspaper article from 2008 noting the death of Sandy Rankine of Woodhaven. Noted for his knowledge of the local area, Sandy was involved almost all his life with the family joinery business. After World War II Sandy helped maintain close links with the Norwegian servicemen who had been based at Woodhaven.
The menu and evening programme for the coming-of-age in 1956 of Andrew Mylius. Andrew Mylius is the great-grandson of Henry Stewart who built St Fort house, and he still lives at St Fort farm. By 1956 St Fort house was no longer habitable, and the celebrations took place at Knockhill House. Knockhill lies just to ...
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.
Lovely view of the B L Nairn powering her way over the river. The top deck is busy with passengers enjoying the blustery conditions, and the car deck is well filled too. The B L Nairn was built at the Caledon Yard in Dundee, and was in operation from 1929 until the ferry service ended ...
During 2019-2020 this ground at the rear of the Newport Hotel was being cleared for possible future house building. The photographs show what appears to be extensive cellar space. These cellars would have provided storage space below the old stabling for the inn.
Photograph of Thomas Halliday, designer of Newport-on-Tay coat of arms. At the time of his death in 1998 he was Scotland's oldest working artist, sculptor and stained glass artist.
Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) is greeted by Provost Douglas Lawson on the High Street in 1950. Occupants of the upstairs High Street flats are just visible viewing the proceedings from their vantage points.
A large section of the crowd awaiting the Queen's arrival in 1958. There's clearly no through traffic here as the seating sweeps across the High Road towards Trinity Church.
Kilnburn steps packed with excited well-wishers to welcome the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, 1958
The police keep the excited crowd in order before the arrival of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, 1958
An eager crowd at the bottom of High Street awaits the arrival of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, 1958.
The Queen meets local dignitaries in 1958
Eager crowds waiting by Trinity Church to welcome the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh on the occasion of the royal visit in 1958.
Children gathered at Kilnburn steps welcoming the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh to Newport in 1958
Provost Thomas Wishart presents gifts to the Queen for the royal children - Charles 10 and Anne 8.