Newscutting showing the children of Wormit playgroup in 1980 after they were given a bottle of pennies towards their funds. The bottle had been donated by the Sandford Hotel.
The Boys' Brigade Football Team in 1900.
John Dott was involved with Newport and Wormit Scouts and Cubs from his childhood days in the Cubs in the 1930s until his official retirement from the movement in 1995. From the late 1950s until 1973 he was Scoutmaster. In 1973 he was appointed District Commissioner, a post he held for 22 years. Even after ...
Photographs of the triumphant BB football team in 1978, one taken outside and one inside the William Street church hall where the group met. The match was the final of Fife BB Under-14 Football Cup and was held in Methil on 16th May 1978. In the final, the boys were never behind and defeated 1st ...
A photo album celebrating the visit of the 'Maharajah' to Woodhaven on Saturday 27th May 1933. This was a fund-raising event by Newport/Wormit Scouts.
The first photograph here shows Jimmy Calder and Glen McBurnie in the camp kitchen doing a bit of housework. In the second photograph the four older boys from left to right are Harold Inglis, John Dott, Claude Taylor with his hand on the tent pole and Gavin Cairns leaning on the pole. Ken Hart tells us that ...
34th Fife (Newport-on-Tay) Scouts at camp in 1953.
Scout Ross Greenhill receives his chief Scout award from leader Adam Olejnik in 1990.
Nursery school photograph of the afternoon group at Tayfield Nursery, 1985.
Pony rides at Tayfield Nursery in 1971.
Children's Outing on the Bluebird (Alexanders) bus 1940s.
One of the annual photographs of Tayfield Nursery, with teacher Mrs Jo Mair, probably early 1970s.
This nursery, widely known as the Tayfield Nursery School, was held in rooms on the ground and first floors of Tayfield from 1963 to 1988.
A hockey match held in 1976 or 1977 between members of the Ladies' Circle and the lady members of TAMS. Our photograph shows the TAMS team members outside the Blyth Hall.
Photograph of the Newport Air Cadets at camp at Middleton St George in County Durham in 1959. This was their first camp. At first the cadets met in the Congregational Church hall before having their own hut built in Victoria Street. Their hut was replaced with a new one in 2019.
Newport ATC in July 1961, probably on a visit to RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire.
ATC Tug-o’-War in 1942. W. Leslie, Ian Wannan, Dave McLaren, Sandy Melville
Local Scouts at camp in 1952.
For more than 25 years from the early 1980s until 2007 hundreds of local youngsters showed off their skills in some spectacular TNT shows. TNT was one of the earliest youth theatre groups, and certainly the first in this area. Sadly it ended in 2007. Our photograph shows their remaining funds being donated to Tearfund, ...
Wormit Guides and Brownies celebrate their 60th birthday in December 1989. Mrs Edith Todd, who was responsible for starting the Guides and Brownies in the Newport area in 1929, cut the 60th birthday cake at a joint meeting of the 1st and 2nd Wormit Brownies and the 1st Wormit Guides at a special reunion in ...
Newport BB camp at Dunino in 1932. Back L-R: J Pate; E McLeod; H McLaren; J Leslie; W Howitt; H Latto; D Miller; A Fearn; J Howitt; C Tait. Middle L-R: P Nicoll; H Young; Mrs McMillan (cook); B Duncan; D Beatt; J Johnston. Front L-R: P Holman; W Knox; F Brotchie; S Lawson; wee girl unknown; E ...
Newport and Tayport Guide Camp at Butterstone in 1967.
Kenneth Hart recalls his happy days in the Scouts in the 1950s. "I joined the Scouts at 11 years of age. I had tried the Cubs but did not enjoy them. Ronald Pringle persuaded me to go to the Scouts with him and I enjoyed several years of Scouting. My first patrol was the Lion Patrol ...
The first photograph shows the group of five Newport and Wormit boys who won the Queen's Scout award in 1954. L-R: Gavin Cairns; Norman Myles; Rod Stewart; Kenneth Morrison; Kenneth Hart. The second photograph shows the certificate presented to Kenneth Hart. The awards were presented to the boys by Lord Rowallan who was Chief Scout at the ...