Annandale Bridge Club was formed in 1949 at Annandale on St Fort Road, Woodhaven, the home of the Tanner family. It quickly outgrew the hall and lounge there, and they moved to the Blyth Hall in 1950. Apart from 1973 - 1974 when the hall was being altered and extended, the bridge club has met ...
Rather a grainy picture of the members of Newport Cycling Club, probably around 1890.
Newspaper reporting the AGM of the Newport Cycling Club in March 1912. The meeting was chaired by J T Young, a keen cyclist himself, having operated a successful cycle repair business before moving on to his motor and garage business on Boat Road. The newscutting reports that the Cycling Club had been founded in 1881, ...
Newport Higher Grade School. Championship Cup for Scratch Events Girls. Presented by Newport Amateur F C June 1940.
Newport Junior Secondary School. Championship Cup for Scratch Events. Presented by Newport Amateur F C June 1940. From 1960 onwards Newport School catered for primary pupils only and so pupils in P6 and P7 competed for the cup which was awarded to the overall sports champion. David Thorne, who won the cup in both P6 ...
Volume 1, Number 1 of the Newport Motorcycle Club magazine, issued in October 1936. The club had been started that year by medical student William (Bill) Smith who lived at Woodbine House on King Street (now 11 King Street). The club headquarters were in the wash-house at the bottom of the Smith family garden, entered ...
A set of cartoon drawings showing the members of the Newport Motorcycle Club in 1936. Sadly the poetic artist is unknown. Members of the club in 1936 were as follows, so it is possible to match some to the sketches using the motorcycle models: J D Recorden (secretary) - Rudge W D Livingstone-Smith (pre. sec.) - Triumph R ...
Members of Newport Motorcycle Club present a bouquet of flowers to Mrs Williamina Smith of Woodbine House in King Street, in 1938. The club headquarters were in the wash-house in the garden of Woodbine House. Club founder, William (Bill) Smith, is at the back to the right, in the shadows.
The Rules and Regulations of the Newport Motorcycle Club, formed in East Newport in 1936.
Newport School Junior Netball Team 1952
Newport School Senior Netball Team 1952
A newspaper article entitled Where Sport is Self-Supporting. It is from the Scotsman in 1962, long before we had a sports centre, and it gives details of Newport's fine sporting tradition.