A poem written by John Duncan expressing his fondness for his home town Newport - date unknown. He also wrote a poem Farewell tae the Fifies.
We were sent the following doggy memories from the 1970s. "Does anyone remember the dogs there were in the 1970s in Newport? There was Trixie who used to come to Windmill Park when we had hockey practice from Newport Primary. The huge black Labrador belonging to the doctor who would lie in wait on top of ...
A booklet produced in 1950 describing the attractions of Newport.
Valentine Fleming, father of Ian Fleming of James Bond fame, was born in Tighavon in West Newport. It's the house accessed at the far end of Woodmuir Terrace numbered 15 Woodmuir Crescent. He was born there in 1882. He was the first child but the family moved south quite soon after that. Valentine would later ...
In 2018, Newport and Wormit in Bloom achieved silver gilt awards in the annual Beautiful Fife campaign run by Fife Council.
An article from a 1964 edition of the People's Friend, accompanying the front page photograph of Newport's Boat Road.
Three views of two wells in the grounds of houses on Queen Street. At one time there were wells dotted about all over the village. Public Health legislation of the 1870s demanded that all new houses should have clean water piped in and dirty water piped out. With Newport’s late nineteenth century housing boom, it was ...
Two views of the well in the grounds of a house on Tay Street. At one time there were wells dotted about all over the village. Public Health legislation of the 1870s demanded that all new houses should have clean water piped in and dirty water piped out. With Newport's late nineteenth century housing boom, ...
Letter to Willie Rankine from Garnet Wilson about their memories of the icy weather in the winter of 1894-1895.Willie Rankine had grown up at Woodhaven and Garnet Wilson in Newport. His father G L Wilson was the founder and owner of G L Wilson's department store in Dundee. Garnet Wilson served on Newport Town Council ...
A delightful view of Woodbine House, now 11 King Street, in 1909. In the gardens are the Smith family, David and Williamina, and their children Johnina, Jean and David. Woodbine House, a spacious and elegant residence, is deceptively modest from its rear aspect on King Street. The generous gardens stretch down to Union Street and ...
