Newport is setting a new benchmark as a tourist hot spot according to a local film-maker.
Self-proclaimed “local historian and social anthropologist” Simon Rankin, who by day works in BT’s Dundee call centre, has added the next instalment in his series of tongue-in-cheek short films exploring all that Newport has to offer.
In his fourth Newport-on-Tay: A Place To Be, he speculates that Winston Churchill could have sat on one of the village’s benches during his time as a Dundee MP.
He also imagines teenagers sitting on a bench during the 1980s debating the merits of The Smiths and Madness.
The first bench visited is beside the Tay Road Bridge.
Mr Rankin said: “What better place than to start right here at the world famous bridge car park, where people come to stop off to enjoy the panoramic views of Dundee and the local art installations whilst enjoying a cup of tea and a hot roll, all accompanied by the ambient sound of heavy traffic thundering across the Tay Road Bridge.”
If that’s whetted your appetite, here are the previous parts in the series:
