Copy of the charter granting Newport's new coat of arms in 1956. This framed copy was made by Jack Morton, Burgh Surveyor, 1948-1975.
Explanation and description of Newport's new coat of arms, granted in 1956.
A lovely collection of Newport-on-Tay crested tableware made by W H Goss. Crested ware was first produced by W H Goss of Stoke-on-Trent in 1888. The company gained permission from UK towns to reproduce their coats of arms on miniature porcelain pieces. Crested tableware was hugely popular during the first half of the twentieth century, ...
Newport's coat of arms (framed). This was the old coat of arms, in use until 1956. In that year the Lord Lyon King of Arms issued a charter granting the right to a revised coat of arms.
Photograph of Thomas Halliday, designer of Newport-on-Tay coat of arms. At the time of his death in 1998 he was Scotland's oldest working artist, sculptor and stained glass artist.