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Cissie Stewart competed in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
Sarah ‘Cissie’ Stewart was the first Dundonian to win an Olympic medal, against all the odds and with no coaching.
When she stepped up her training before the 1928 Olympics she was reprimanded by the Dundee Baths manager for using her season ticket twice a day!
He made her buy additional tickets to complete her training before she travelled to Amsterdam with the Team GB squad to take on the world’s best.
Cissie, then 17, won silver in the 4×100 metres freestyle relay and finished fourth in the individual 400m final despite suffering from an arm injury.
Life before the Tay Road Bridge: Journeys across the river aboard the Fifies
The Scotscraig crosses the River Tay.
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Almost 55 years ago the death knell rang on the Tay Ferries, or The Fifies as they were more affectionately known, which transported Dundonians across the Tay for 145 years.
Locals used the ferry boats as one of the main modes of transport to escape to the countryside of Fife with crossings scheduled up to 11 times a day. Before the regular trips were introduced in 1821 the only way of crossing was to, hopefully, negotiate a fair price with one of the many boats at the harbour who offered unregulated passenger-only services.
NORMAN WATSON: Rare Scottish VC goes to auction
Cameronians VC, (Dix Noonan Web).
The Victoria Crosses awarded to Scottish regiments are, by and large, in national institutions, military museums or in the astonishing collection assembled by Lord Ashcroft at the Imperial War Museum. Few remain in private hands.
There should be considerable interest, therefore, in the VC awarded to 21-year-old Private James Towers, 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), which comes up for sale this week at coin and medal specialists Dix Noonan Web in London.
Pte Towers, with utter disregard for his own safety, volunteered to carry a vital message to a stranded platoon at Mericourt in October 1918, whilst in the knowledge that five of his comrades had already been in killed in turn making attempts to carry out the same task.