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.
Thank you certificate sent to Mrs George Motion of Newport for taking in evacuees.
Newspaper cutting explaining arrangements in event of arrival of evacuees in Fife.
Newspaper advert asking for homes for evacuees in Fife.
Extract from Wormit School log book explaining arrangements for evacuees.
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.
'Courier' article thanking the people of Wormit for their kindness to evacuees.
Entry in local air raid diary highlighting a bomb at Cliff Cottage, Chesterhill.
Order of service for the Fallen of Newport and Wormit in March 1919, just four months after the end of the war.
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 ...
Six members of the local Artillery Volunteers went to fight in the Boer War (1899 - 1902). They left from Newport Station and James Duncan, Stationmaster, gave them all return tickets. Sadly, only one returned. A memorial plaque to the other five was unveiled in the Leng Chapel of Vicarsford cemetery on 24 May 1902.
A photo taken in Boat Road, of the Fife and Forfarshire Yeomanry returning from their annual camp at Buddon before World War I. The Pilkington family of St Fort are the onlookers in the horse and trap.
