Newport School teachers, early 1950s.
Newport School around 1949 P1
Wormit Bowling Club Badge, instituted 1901.
Police dance in Blyth Hall.
Ex-Guiders celebrating 50 years of Guiding in Newport. 1973.
Ex-Guiders celebrating 60 years of Guiding in Newport. 1983.
Newport Brownies on a Camp holiday.
A model of the B L Nairn ferry. One of the most loved of all the Fifies.
Map showing the original four ferry crossings on the Tay: Dundee-Balmerino; Dundee-Woodhaven; Dundee-Seamills (Newport); and Broughty Ferry-Ferryport-on-Craig (Tayport).
Two drawings showing plans for the extension to St Thomas' Church in 1902. Plans were drawn on 24 May 1901. As can be seen on second drawing the area of the church would be more than doubled, from a very simple rectangle shape to a building with increased seating in new transepts, as well as ...
Fife County Air Raid Precautions Registration Card.
Inspecting the (unseen) air cadets in RAF's Wings for Victory week 1943. Note the ornate railing which surrounded the Blyth Hall until taken away to make Spitfires - supposedly.
The sea cadets are inspected by Alf Burgess, a local officer in charge of the cadets, during Warships Week 1942.
Army cadet inspection in War Weapons Week 1941. During the war certain weeks were allocated to advertise each of the armed services and to raise their profile among the public. This photograph, along with that of the Warships Week 1942 and RAF's Wings for Victory Week in 1943 demonstrate these campaigns in Newport. Provost Fairweather ...
1944 wartime wedding group at rear of Blyth Hall. It was the wedding of Gladys Jack who lived in Struan Street. She married Jon Roe, one of the Norwegians based at Woodhaven. Marguerite Fairweather is in Land Girl uniform centre front.
Newscutting showing how children helped the war effort too.
Newspaper advert asking for homes for evacuees in Fife.
Wartime ration book for MacLure family of Maryfield Cottage, Newport.
Fancy dress parade in Newport High Street as part of the victory celebrations at the end of WW2. It was probably very soon after the end of the war - possibly VE Day. Note the absence of male onlookers. Ron Caird is the young cowboy.
Wartime permit allowing John Don to use his boat on the river, only during daylight hours below the railway bridge, but anytime above the bridge.
Wormit and district 'B' Coy Home Guard, photographed in Gauldry School playground. There was also a Newport Home Guard based in the ARP (Air Raid Precautions) building in King Street. They drilled and practised in Windmill Park under the leadership of Alex. Lowson.
World War 2 Civil Defence armband as worn by ARP (Air Raid Precaution) workers.
Wartime motor fuel ration book.
Spent bullet cartridges found in Kilnburn, Newport, after a Spitfire had chased a German seaplane, forcing it down on the river.
