Newport Tennis Club coaching sessions c. 2000.
Two trees planted in Tayfield in 1966 to celebrate opening of the Road Bridge. Like the bridge itself, they have flourished!
A view of the interior of Trinity Church.
Trinity Church High Street.
Two laburnum trees were planted at Woodhaven by Willie Rankine to commemorate the visit to Woodhaven of King Haakon VII in 1944. One died in 2004 and the wood was used by local wood turners to make commemorative items to be given to visiting Norwegians and locals to preserve the links with Norway. Items shown ...
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.
A photo of the shops in Cupar Road (formerly St Phillan's Place) probably taken around 2005.
Tay Street awash with water 2007
Memorial column on roundabout at south end of road bridge. This memorial is in memory of the five workmen who died during road bridge construction, and of contractor Willie Logan who died in 1966 when his private plane crashed near Inverness. He never saw his bridge completed. The memorial is in the shape of one ...
Three Newport butcher shops.
Five massive Old Newport Exhibitions have been organised, three of them in the Blyth Hall. Our photographs show the first in 1990, the fourth one in 2005 and the most recent in 2016.
Photograph of the Berry Family tree, 1725-2016.
The Leng Chapel at Vicarsford Cemetery, two miles south of Newport. Built on a hill, the chapel is a memorial to John Leng's first wife Emily.
Leng Chapel Inscription Panel. The Memorial to John Leng's first wife Dame Emily Leng, and also remembrance of his second wife Mary.
Detail of the ceiling in the Leng Chapel.
Those of a certain age will remember using these old stamp machines. You popped in your penny, or two or three (old pennies of course, pre-decimalisation of 1971), and out came your stamp. In the days when snail mail was the only form of communication, these machines were lifelines when the post office was closed. ...
Two stained glass panes from the staircase window in Netherlea House, demolished in 2019.
Two photographs at Wormit Boating Club of the club flag and the Norwegian flag both flying at half mast to acknowledge the death of Sandy Rankine on 9 December 2008. Sandy was a great supporter and friend of the boating club, and also, with his father Willie, of the Norwegians based at the pier during ...
I've always found this mural on the blocked up gable window of the house at the bottom of James Street rather intriguing. I've now learned that it was done around 1975 by four-year-old Boo Paterson (now a successful artist) and her older brother who lived in this house. They collected sea glass from the shore ...
Three photographs of children taking part in some of the shows put on by Donna Vincent's Swingsing group. Swingsing ran from 2002 until 2017.
During World War II King Haakon of Norway visited the Norwegian forces based at Woodhaven three times. At least once he was accommodated at Dunvarlich on Riverside Road, one of several houses in Newport that were used for military purposes during the war. Prior to that visit a period en suite from the 1930s was ...
Four amazing photographs showing the real Blyth Hall roof. In 1974 a false ceiling was installed in the hall, which no doubt helped with heating, but it hid this magnificent roof. Architect Robert Lorimer, designer of the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, and of our own Newport memorial, described this ceiling as one ...
Two views of St Fillan's Catholic Church, Newport-on-Tay, one from King Street, one from Queen Street .
For more than 25 years from the early 1980s until 2007 hundreds of local youngsters showed off their skills in some spectacular TNT shows. TNT was one of the earliest youth theatre groups, and certainly the first in this area. Sadly it ended in 2007. Our photograph shows their remaining funds being donated to Tearfund, ...