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Detail of ferry terminal buildings, Newport on Tay
Fading colours on the ferry terminal building at Newport on Tay. This building was closed in 1966 when the Tay road bridge opened.
Image: © William Starkey
Taken: 4 Mar 2013
0.01 miles
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Where Boat Road meets Boat Brae, Newport-on-Tay
A neglected ornate structure on Boat Brae (L) abuts the former Ferry Terminal (R) on Boat Road.
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 5 May 2015
0.02 miles
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Former Ferry Terminal facade
On Boat Street, with wall clock 'standing' at 8:04 in mid-afternoon - albeit almost 50 years after the last Dundee ferry left Newport on Tay (in 1966).
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 5 May 2015
0.03 miles
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Old ferry terminal
From these buildings the ferry across the Firth of Tay to Dundee used to operate before the Tay road bridge was opened.
Image: © James Allan
Taken: 12 Jul 2013
0.03 miles
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Pier buildings, Newport
From the foot of Boat Brae.
Image: © Jim Bain
Taken: 15 May 2007
0.03 miles
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Old Milestone by the B946, Boat Road, Newport-on-Tay
'G' by the B946, in parish of Forgan (Fife District), Newport, Boat Road in wall near jetty.
Inscription reads:-
1824
To
Pettycur, 33
NewInn, 20
Cupar, 11
Newport, 0
Grade C(S) listed. Reference: LB49031
http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB49031
Surveyed
Milestone Society National ID: FF_NPCP00.
Image: © Milestone Society
Taken: Unknown
0.03 miles
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Historic milepost at Newport Ferry Terminal
Distances on the route to Edinburgh in the days when ferry passengers connected here with horse-drawn stage coaches. Pettycur offered them a 'comfort stop' at New Inn (where the horses were changed out).
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 5 May 2015
0.03 miles
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The Tay Ferries
Information Board on Boat Road, Newport-on-Tay.
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 5 May 2015
0.03 miles
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Milestone Newport on Tay
There are many well preserved milestone or cast iron wayside markers throughout Fife. This one in Newport is one of the earliest in Fife and is dated 1824.
Image: © Mary Rodgers
Taken: 23 Mar 2017
0.03 miles
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Old mileplate
Looking over the wall at the milepost in Newport there is a view of the jetty, the River Tay, Dundee and the north end of the Tay road bridge.
Image: © Richard Barron
Taken: 17 Sep 2023
0.04 miles