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.
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.
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.
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.
A photograph of the three Special Constables in Newport in the 1930s. The police station was in King Street, but they also had an office in the pier shops.
Newport Tennis Club masked fancy dress ball in late 1940s These balls were an annual event and always well supported.
Newport Tennis Club dance in 1948. Marguerite Fairweather is second from left in front row.
The general practice surgery was at the rear of the building, entered through the back yard.
Newport School: photo from the 1940s.
Newport School: photo from the 1940s.
Newport School: photo from the 1940s.
B L Nairn at Newport pier. The B L Nairn was in operation from 1929 until the service ended in 1966.
Photograph of Norwegian operations crew, taken about 1942. Second from the left is Jon Roe, wireless operator/flight engineer/airgunner. He married Gladys Jack of Newport during the war and their daughter Kari was born in Newport. They moved to Norway after the war.
Sgt. J Bruce Lindsay of Wormit, who was seconded to the SOE to train troops in the Cairngorms. He was parachuted into the north of Norway in 1944 to aid the Norwegian resistance. Unfortunately the mission failed as one of the team was injured in the drop and captured. Sgt. Lindsay escaped with the help ...
Anderson shelter at Woodhaven.
