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.
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.
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.
Passengers ready to board diesel train at Wormit Station as it leaves the tunnel and approaches the platform.
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.
Wormit School 1901. Teacher Miss Welsh.
Wormit School, early 1900s.
Wormit School, early 1900s.
The Mars boys in the classroom on board the Mars.
The Francis Molison was used to provide the Mars boys with more seagoing skills and nautical experience. Here they show off their agility as they take up their positions all over the ship's masts and rigging.
Wormit Bowling Club Badge, instituted 1901.
25th Anniversary, Ladies Bowling Club. 1976.
A Grand Bazaar to raise funds for Wormit Bowling Club held in the Kinnaird Hall, Dundee over four days in 1905.
Wormit loans raised from members in Wormit Bowling Club's first fund-raising.
A rather battered copy of the cover of the constitution for Wormit Bowling Club which was established in 1901 with funds loaned by the members. The constitution was drawn up following their first AGM in September of that year.
