A photograph of the Mars Boys in the Woodhaven workshop supervised by Chief Officer Burn and William Bowman.
This photograph was in a drawer, but the finder had no knowledge of anyone in his family being on the ship. To date the boy has not been identified.
A photograph of Sandy Rankine at Woodhaven Pier, with the Mars in the background, 1926. Sandy's family owned the joinery workshop above the pier (now known as Old Boathouse) and he lived in a cottage right on the Woodhaven bend until the 1990s.
Pages from a book of woodwork patterns belonging to Chief Officer Richard Burns.
Photographs of the four men who commanded the Mars Ship from 1869 to 1929.
This advert from the Mars Magazine features Miss Sim's sweetie shop at Woodhaven Terrace.
A photograph of one of the several bands organised on the ship.
A photograph of the tender to the Mars, the Francis Molison, at Woodhaven Pier, with the boys undertaking a series of drills.
A photograph of the Mars boys watching the Mars leaving her berth at Woodhaven on 27 June 1929.
A photograph of Chief Officer Flynn and the boat crews at Woodhaven, with the Mars in the background.
A photograph of Mars boys in the joinery workshop under the watchful eye of Alexander McDougall, ship's carpenter.
Wonderful colour photograph of engine 64547 at Wormit Station.
Steam engine 80123 pulling passenger train through Wormit Station in 1958. Willocks' carpet beating establishment down below on Bay Road.
Newspaper Article from May 2020 recalling the events of May 1955 when a picnic train from Tayport crashed at Wormit Station.
Photograph shows accident at Wormit Station on 17 June 1931. It involved an early morning rush hour train from Tayport, that jumped the points as it entered Wormit Station. There were no serious injuries.
Looking over railway bridge from south, with Tay Bridge South signal box in foreground.
Lovely colour view of Wormit Station and Steam Train on Rail Bridge.
Passengers await the arrival at Wormit Station of the steam train coming over the rail bridge.
An extremely spick and span and very empty Wormit station, with just one passenger making his way there.
Passengers ready to board diesel train at Wormit Station as it leaves the tunnel and approaches the platform.
Steam train approaches Wormit over the rail bridge.
A fun reminder of the old Wormit Station sign.
Four photographs taken in 1979 after the station and site had become increasingly derelict since closure in 1969. A year after the photographs were taken the station building was carefully dismantled and rebuilt at Bo'ness where it is part of the Scottish Railway Preservation Society's working steam museum.
An astonishing photograph of the signatures etched into glass of three of the engineers on the first Tay Rail Bridge. They are Albert Grothe (chief engineer), Frederick Reeves and ___ Neuzille. The signatures are still on the window of the house in East Newport where Reeves was staying and they are dated 9 October 1874.
