Reservoir Road sign in Wormit. A reminder of the reservoir that was built up on Wormit Hill. The reservoir received fresh water brought over the railway bridge from Dundee's water supply. The reservoir has now been converted to a house.
There may no longer be ferries arriving and departing, but the pier is still a hive of activity with David and Liz Anderson's marine services and supplies business.
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 ...
Ruined cottages which were the farm cottages and bothy for Causewayhead Farm. They are in the woods behind the farm building.
Ruined cottages which were the farm cottages and bothy for Causewayhead Farm. They are in the woods behind the farm building.
Ruined cottages which were the farm cottages and bothy for Causewayhead Farm. They are in the woods behind the farm building. These photos show the huge drifts of snowdrops surrounding the cottages in spring.
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. ...
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 ...
Just visible in the long grass are the foundations of the pavilion at Windmill Park. The pavilion stood on a slightly raised piece of ground nearer the north end of the park. A belt of trees now grows over the site. These photographs were taken in 2021.
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 ...
St Mary's Church then and now. The early photograph gives a wonderful view of the fairly new St Mary's, built 1886 - 1887. Older neighbours the Congregational Church (1868), Newport School (1879) and the tower of St Thomas' (1870) are just visible behind, while Tayfield Estate office can be seen on the right. There's just ...
The memorial window in St Mary's Church. The window commemorates C Douglas Mitchell of Kirk Road, West Newport who died, aged 20, on 26 March 1918.
After the closure of Wormit Station in May 1969, it gradually became quite derelict. Eleven years later however, a reprieve came for Wormit station when it was purchased by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society. The station was carefully dismantled and removed to Bo’ness where it is still part of the society’s working steam museum. These two photographs show ...
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.
The stunningly beautiful interior of St Mary's Episcopal Church on the steps between Kilnburn and the High Street.
Boat Brae parade of shops. These lovely buildings, opened in 1878, had by 2010 fallen into a terrible state of disrepair. Our Before and After photographs show the buildings before and after the amazing restoration by David and Liz Anderson who own the adjoining pier buildings. A superb example of a building brought back from ...
