Wormit Bowling Club Badge, instituted 1901.
A description of and explanation of the background to the Leng Cup and the Memorial Cup. These are the cups competed for by Wormit Boating Club.
Wormit Boating Club Memorial Cup. Subscriptions from members allowed the purchase of the cup in 1948 to commemorate the sixteen members of the club lost during World War II. It is awarded as an annual club series trophy. (Wrongly labelled on photographs.)
This gavel was made by Alistair Monro of Monifieth from the wood of the laburnum tree planted at Woodhaven in 1944 to commemorate a visit by King Haakon of Norway that year. The Norwegian Airforce 333 Squadron was stationed at Woodhaven during the war. It was given to Wormit Boating Club for use by the ...
Wormit Church Golden Year. A news article from 1983 featuring Wormit Church celebrating 50 years since the union of Wormit's two churches, Wormit East and Wormit West.
Photograph shows Wormit Bowling Club opening of the green 1984.
Photograph of the Tay Rail Bridge and Tay Bridge South signal box. Photographed sometime after the closure of the Newport Railway. The signal box sat in the junction of the two lines.
Spectacular firework display marking the centenary of the railway bridge. Fireworks were let off from a moving train slowly crossing the bridge, and from barges in the water below when the train passed through the High Girders.
Newscutting explaining how nearly 12 years after closure in 1969 Wormit station was saved. It was bought by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society and rebuilt as a station at their working steam museum at Bo'ness
John Dott the chemist in Wormit. John Dott also had a shop in Tayport. The building in the photograph was sometimes one, sometimes two shops. Prior to the chemist it housed the Dundee Savings Bank (later TSB). In 2020 the building was completely invisible, hidden under a dense mass of ivy and other vegetation.
Wormit BB Junior section (formerly the Life Boys) and Anchor Boys, c. 1980
Wormit Boys' Brigade colour party at the bottom of Birkhill Avenue, after parading from Wormit Parish Church.
Photograph shows the disused and fairly derelict Wormit station being carefully dismantled in 1980. The Scottish Railway Preservation Society had bought it and moved it to Bo'ness where it was rebuilt and is still part of the society’s working steam museum.
Steele and Brodie workshop, Kilmany Road, Wormit.
Newspaper cutting about Steele and Brodie.
Wormit Boating Club Mirror Class sailing championships at Woodhaven Pier in July 1989.
Rev Andrew Stevenson was Minister of Wormit Church from 1983 until 1993. He was the first Minister of the new joint charge of Wormit Church with Balmerino joined with Gauldry.
An explanation of the origins of Wormit Boating Club. Note that the club moved to Woodhaven in 1971, with the new clubhouse being built the following year.
Newspaper article from 2008 noting the death of Sandy Rankine of Woodhaven. Noted for his knowledge of the local area, Sandy was involved almost all his life with the family joinery business. After World War II Sandy helped maintain close links with the Norwegian servicemen who had been based at Woodhaven.
Steele and Brodie premises on Kilmany Road 1983.
Some of the beeswax candles made by Steele and Brodie, a sideline of their bee supplies.
The story of Wormit's Steele and Brodie beehive works from Brian Nish.
Wormit Church Women's Guild 1987
Article from Mars Mainsheet, Wormit Boating Club’s newsletter, about the raising of the Mars mooring anchor.
