Abercraig, the first house on the river side of West Road, travelling west, was built in 1824-5 as the dower house for the Berry Family.
This map shows Tayfield Estate in 2011.
The pier smiddy was owned by Tayfield Estate, and closed in the 1940s. The last tenants were the Don family, but prior to that the Smiddy had been worked by Willie Young, whose son John T Young established the bicycle repair shop on the High Road which became the successful Young's Garage on Boat Road.
Jim Smith was born and bred at Tayfield, and spent his whole working life there. In his final year in 2002 he looked back on his life and shared his memories with Gordon Small, who recorded them all. We are fortunate to have this astonishing record which covers everyday life on the estate to events ...
Photograph of Strawberrybank Farm in the snow. Strawberrybank is the smallholding opposite Newport Primary School playing field.
Pony rides at Tayfield Nursery in 1971.
Nursery school photograph of the afternoon group at Tayfield Nursery, 1985.
Nursery school photograph of the morning group at Tayfield Nursery, 1985.
One of the annual photographs of Tayfield Nursery, with teacher Mrs Jo Mair, probably early 1970s.
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.