Postcard: the Braes, the Blyth Fountain and the Big Rock.
Photograph of an ice cream cart from the Royal Cafe, Newport. The Royal Cafe was housed in the old Royal Buildings in the 1920s and 1930s. On busy days when there was a regatta or swimming gala at the adjacent Newport Braes, the ice cream carts on Tay Street would be plying a brisk trade. ...
Set of pictures showing a way of life probably gone for ever. Summer days with picnics at the Big Rock, playing on the beach, learning to swim there, and always the Fifie in the background. No need for watches - you told the time by the coming and going of the Fifies!
18 August 1966. Many people watched the crossing of the last Fifie from the Braes. The new road bridge, opened that day, is just visible on the right.
View along Tay Street and the Braes early 1900s, a time it was the done thing to shield from the sun under a parasol.
Photograph of the Blyth Fountain and the Newport Braes. Early 1900s.
Blyth Fountain 1990 before refurbishment.
B Fearn dives to win the swimming gala diving competition in 1912.
The beach at Newport was a popular spot for the Norwegians to spend their leisure time, and this view was photographed by Einar Garnes, one of the Norwegians.
Not an inch of space available at the Braes for late-comers to the annual swimming gala in 1900. In the foreground is the men's changing hut with the steep steps leading down to it. In the distance the boating club slipway is lined with visitors, and just out of sight, the Big Rock would no ...
Posing for the camera down at Big Rock late 1930s. The shore area looking very different from the 2020 shoreline.