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Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes

These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.

1939-40       (November 1939 - November 1940)       Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-39

There are now 28 ARP wardens, 7 messengers, 2 communications, 2 drivers.
Suggested [by Government] 'public air raid shelters required for 200 persons at 4 points: 3 at railway stations (50, 50 & 25) and 1 at ferry pier (75)'. Council agree to provide 4 x 50 shelters, sites to be determined.
Spray baths in Blyth Hall: being used by 100 soldiers a day, inadequate hot water supply, damage to floor, and anyway it was a first aid post, not a bath house for the military.
July / August 1940. Death of ex-Provost Scrymgeour.
Evacuation: no additional children to be sent to Newport.
Gift of motor car ambulance - Miss E J Millar, Duncraig.
Great increase in traffic down Victoria Street.
Air raid shelters: 4 x 50 people shelters (1) at the slaughterhouse, Gas Lane; (2) Council property, King Street; (3) Broadhaugh; (4) east of Fife House, Wormit.
Chief Constable would back application for Halt sign at Victoria Street / Cupar Road. Approved by Ministry of Transport.
Horse trough at Seamills - not used for some time - should be removed.
Air raid shelters: Broadhaugh site - tenant would vacate the premises if it were built. Speak to him again. ?Any other sites in West Newport?
September 1940. Railings for scrap: Blyth Hall front railings might go.
Minutes of Council had now been deposited at Clydesdale Bank, Dundee for safe keeping.
Mr Berry to lay a tarmac footpath from the Smithy Brae to the Post Office.
No elections to be held, but Provost Little resigns as a Councillor.
Communal kitchen previously set up for evacuees had ceased to function and had now been taken over by the military.
Polish soldiers in the burgh.
Wormit recreation ground at Wormit School: continue with lease.
Air raid siren to be put on roof of Wormit School.
Table of statistics of gas manufacture 1925-1940 in the accounts at the end of this volume of minutes.

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