Ex-Guiders celebrating 60 years of Guiding in Newport. 1983.
Newport Brownies on a Camp holiday.
Beavers celebrating their first birthday in 1984.
Cutting the first sod for the new Scout hut at Waterstone Crook in 1986.
Newport Beavers visiting HMS Beaver at Rosyth in 1985.
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.
A cutting from the Courier on 3 December 1980 recalling the early days of the BB in Newport
Newport BB re-union celebrations at William Street Hall around 1980.
Nursery school photograph of the morning group at Tayfield Nursery, 1985.
Wormit Playgroup has been based in the West Hall on Bay Road since 1972. These photographs show playgroup activities in 1989.
Wormit branch of Tufty Club in 1982. Squirrel Tufty taught children road safety.
Newscutting showing the children of Wormit playgroup in 1980 after they were given a bottle of pennies towards their funds. The bottle had been donated by the Sandford Hotel.
Nursery school photograph of the afternoon group at Tayfield Nursery, 1985.
This nursery, widely known as the Tayfield Nursery School, was held in rooms on the ground and first floors of Tayfield from 1963 to 1988.
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, ...
Wormit Guides and Brownies celebrate their 60th birthday in December 1989. Mrs Edith Todd, who was responsible for starting the Guides and Brownies in the Newport area in 1929, cut the 60th birthday cake at a joint meeting of the 1st and 2nd Wormit Brownies and the 1st Wormit Guides at a special reunion in ...
In the early 1980s a youth theatre was held in the Rio Community Centre. Our photographs show an outdoor show Ferries and Trains in 1984.
Newport Playgroup in 1983. The playgroup met in the Blyth Hall probably from around 1970 until it disbanded in the early 2010s. The playgroup catered for children aged 3-5.
Display board showing the Newport Club presidents from the founding of the club in 1871 until 2022. The first-named president, Albert Grothe, was engineer on the ill-fated first rail bridge.
Newport-on-Tay Round Table 956 was established in 1967 and included Scotscraig in their name in the hope of attracting membership from Tayport too. It was a hugely popular and very active organisation throughout the 1970s and well into the 1980s. Thereafter its membership dwindled leading to its demise around 2002. Round Table catered for men ...
Board celebrating Newport and Wormit Boy Scouts who achieved the King's or Queen's Scout Badge between 1931 and 1961, and the Chief Scout's Award between 1975 and 2000.
Wormit Ladies' Group was a social group for women in Wormit, thought to have been a follow-on from an earlier baby-sitting group. They met regularly once a month in the West Hall, Wormit. It probably started around 1970 and functioned until 1983. Members enjoyed a varied programme of events with visits to local places of ...
Syllabus cards for Wormit Church Women's Guild from 1973 until 2020.
