Long time Newport resident, Henry Burnett shares his memories of Newport and Wormit shops.
Two of the Newport pier shops. The Tyme Shop run by Brian Giel, and Jan Blicharski's Leather Shop.
The old post office building still today has stamp machines on the wall outside. A M Anderson was post-master, watchmaker. jeweller and optician. He was also a photographer who took many of the early 20th century postcard views.
Receipt from Moodie and Gordon, cycle agents, electrical and motor engineers and wireless dealers, on the High Street, Newport from 1930s until late 1950s.
Until fairly recently the building at 1 Gowrie Street was always a shop. For most of its life it was a grocery store, but in its earliest days in the 1850s and 1860s it appears to have housed a bakery. Our photographs date from the 1970s and 1980s when it was run under the Spar ...
Those of a certain age will remember using these old stamp machines. You popped in your penny, or two or three (old pennies of course, pre-decimalisation of 1971), and out came your stamp. In the days when snail mail was the only form of communication, these machines were lifelines when the post office was closed. ...
Stanley Gordon is a long-term resident of Newport and remembers many of the village shops from the 1950s .
John Dott the chemist in Wormit. John Dott also had a shop in Tayport. The building in the photograph was sometimes one, sometimes two shops. Prior to the chemist it housed the Dundee Savings Bank (later TSB). In 2020 the building was completely invisible, hidden under a dense mass of ivy and other vegetation.