Search the archiveCurrently displaying: 7 results. Clear the searchYou've searched for:area: "Newport" xSubject: "Boating" x Search term Filter by Subject Recreation venues (3)Newport Braes (3)Filter by Format Newspaper cutting (1)Photograph (6)Filter by Decade 1890s (1)1900s (1)1910s (1)1920s (2)Filter by Century 19th (1)20th (2) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Postcard: the Braes and Big Rock The Braes and Big Rock possibly on the boating club's regatta day. Postcard: Evening on the Tay Postcard view of evening on the Tay, with sailing and rowing boats. Postcard: Calm on the Tay A postcard of sailing and rowing boats on the river, early 20th century. Newport Boating Club Shed and Slipway Newport Braes. The Boating Club shed and slipway on a crowded day. The Royal Hotel up above on Tay Street. Newport Boating Club Shed on Braes Newport Boating Club shed and slipway on Braes. Boating Accident 1892 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. Regatta Day Newport-on-Tay 1930s Rowing boats in action off the Newport Braes in the 1920s. The Newport Boating Club was hugely popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but sadly folded around 1930. In its heyday regattas were held at least once a year, and frequently twice.