Wormit Boating Club Gala Day 1981. Jim Wilson, Bob Nicol, Dave McLaren, Ann Yule (Patrick) and John Don, all 1940s/1950s oarsmen/woman, are wearing the original WBC boating dress.
Wormit Boating Club Members at Wormit Bay.
Wormit Boating Club members on the sandbank in middle of river June 1949. It was a tradition to head out there, perhaps for a picnic, or just to say they had been.
More recent club members on sandbank, well protected with their life jackets.
Wormit Boating Club members on a club cruise upriver to Birkhill Estate late 1940s.
Newport Braes. The Boating Club shed and slipway on a crowded day. The Royal Hotel up above on Tay Street.
Newport Boating Club shed and slipway on Braes.
B Fearn dives to win the swimming gala diving competition in 1912.
The Bathing Station Newport on a stormy day. The two changing huts for men and women can be seen, and furthest away is the Boating Club shed and slipway.
Curling Club badge, showing a game in progress on the lower pond, plus the little clubhouse.
Curlers at the curling ponds in Tayfield 1980.
Curling Club dinner in Blyth Hall. Dinners were held annually in The Blyth Hall, the Newport Hotel, Tayside Tearooms, or the Seymour Hotel. In the second photograph, John Barlow, Newport plumber, is 3rd from right, and next to him is Bill Grieve.
Curling at either Tayfield, St Fort or Scotscraig.
Curling at Newton Pond, Wormit
The toast list from Curling Club dinner in 1892.
The menu and programme for the Curling Club centenary dinner in 1958. Inside is a lovely wee caricature of the club council members, drawn by Jack Morton, burgh surveyor for 26 years.
Curling Club Prize-giving 1980
Wonderful photograph of skating on top pond at Tayfield in early 1960s.
Framed photo of the members of Newport Tennis Club, probably taken in the early 1900s.
Not an inch of space available at the Braes for late-comers to the annual swimming gala in 1900. In the foreground is the men's changing hut with the steep steps leading down to it. In the distance the boating club slipway is lined with visitors, and just out of sight, the Big Rock would no ...
Three newspaper extracts describing the events of 2nd July 1896, when the recently formed Newport Bathing Association was inaugurated. The Braes were of course packed with people, the bathing pavilion and the surrounding area were decorated with flags, and the Mars band played all afternoon and into the evening. Spectators enjoyed swimming displays and an ...
Newspaper cutting from 30 July 1892 describing a boating accident just off the braes. The two occupants of a small sailing boat were rescued from the water after their boat capsized. The rescuer was John Barlow (22), founder of Betsworth and Barlow plumbers.
Newspaper reporting the AGM of the Newport Cycling Club in March 1912. The meeting was chaired by J T Young, a keen cyclist himself, having operated a successful cycle repair business before moving on to his motor and garage business on Boat Road. The newscutting reports that the Cycling Club had been founded in 1881, ...
Newspaper cutting from 16 April 1913 reporting the new season's officials for the Newport Swimming Club.