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The Welsh Quoits Archive, comprising material relating to British quoiting, the majority of the material relating to quoiting in Wales, including: match programmes, posters and flyers, match listings and statistics; rules and regulations of quoiting; press cuttings relating to quoiting matches, quoiting clubs and club members; newsletters; correspondence between quoiting clubs, between individual club members and between clubs and members of the public; items relating to notable quoiting club occasions such as centenaries and anniversaries; and miscellaneous material relating to quoiting, including information relating to the history of the game. The bulk of the material relates to quoiting in Wales, mainly involving international matches (the majority of which were against Scotland) played on Welsh soil. One particularly notable item is a copy of a printed booklet titled The History of Quoits in Wales by Albert Baker (published by J. R. Davies in 1949), which is enclosed with a letter, 14 December 2000, to Linda Evans, Joint Secretary of the Welsh Quoiting Board, from Darryl Baker, grandson of the author (see under heading Quoiting: Wales: Correspondence: Letters to Linda Evans).

Material relating to quoiting in Wales, comprising international and county league match programmes, posters, flyers and statistics; correspondence addressed to Linda Evans and Parry Evans, Joint Secretaries of the Welsh Quoiting Board, and to Welsh national quoits team member Brian Penny; details of dinners, receptions and lunches held to celebrate or otherwise mark international quoiting events; copies of rules and regulations of Welsh quoiting; press cuttings relating to quoiting in Britain; and miscellaneous items relating to quoiting. This section of the archive is partially sub-divided into material relating to quoiting in Montgomeryshire, which includes Caersws Quoiting Club, and to Llanarthney Quoiting Club, Carmarthenshire.
One particularly notable item is a copy of a printed booklet titled The History of Quoits in Wales by Albert Baker (published by J. R. Davies in 1949), which is enclosed with a letter, 14 December 2000, to Linda Evans, Joint Secretary of the Welsh Quoiting Board, from Darryl Baker, grandson of the author (see under heading Quoiting: Wales: Correspondence: Letters to Linda Evans).

Souvenir match programmes, 1932-2009, of international quoits matches played between Wales and England and between Wales and Scotland on Welsh ground.

Categorisation of international matches is dependant on location of match: matches played in Wales are categorised under 'Wales v England' or 'Wales v Scotland' matches, irrespective of listing on programme cover (e.g. if a match denoted as 'England v Wales' or 'Scotland v Wales' is played at a Welsh venue, then the match is categorised under 'Wales v England' or 'Wales v Scotland' matches).

Souvenir match programmes, 1948, 1954, 1956, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, of international quoits matches played between Wales and Scotland on Welsh ground. All items annotated; programme dated 25 July 1987 signed 'B. S. Jones' on front cover. Programme dated 28 July 2007 includes attached paper bearing photocopied photographs of public figures, some with names added by hand.

Laminated poster and poster/flyer denoting Wales v Scotland matches.

Photocopied handwritten statistics relating to Wales v Scotland quoits matches, 1979-1996.

Letters to Linda Evans and Parry Evans, Joint Secretaries of the Welsh Quoiting Board, and to Welsh national quoits team member Brian Penny.

Letters and emails, 2000-2010, 2013, to Linda Evans, donor of this archive and Joint Secretary (with Parry Evans - see under heading Quoiting: Wales: Correspondence: Letter to Parry Evans) of the Welsh Quoiting Board, the principal correspondents being Darryl Baker, Brian Penny and Diana Parrott, as well as Joe Wooldridge, whose letter encloses photocopies of photographs and other items, with notes, relating to Gidea Park Quoits Club, Essex, of which Wooldridge and others of his family were members.
Letter from Darryl Baker, 14 December 2000, encloses a copy of his grandfather Albert Baker's booklet The History of Quoits in Wales (J. R. Davies, 1949), which is signed 'B. S. Jones' on protective plastic cover (front, upper right) (letter and booklet kept in marked envelopes).
Please note that the email from Frik Müller (9 January 2002) also includes a second email (17 January 2002) on the reverse side.

Printed orders of proceedings and printed tickets relating to receptions, dinners and lunch events, 1957, 1959, 1987, 1991, 2003 and undated, held to celebrate or otherwise mark international quoits matches, those noted being between Wales and England and between Wales and Scotland.

Letter to prominent Wales and Caersws quoiter and Montgomeryshire County Quoiting League Secretary Brendon Lloyd from Molly D. Hedderly, Secretary/Treasurer of Llandyssil Quoiting Club, announcing the latter's disbandment.

Leaflet detailing events held to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the playing of international quoits matches at Caersws Quoits Club.

Souvenir match programmes, 1933-2008, of international quoits matches played between Scotland and England and between Scotland and Wales on Scottish ground.

Printed orders of proceedings and printed tickets relating to civic receptions, dinners and other social events, 1954, 1956, 1984, 1986, 1988, 2002, held to celebrate or otherwise mark international quoits matches, those noted being between Scotland and Wales and between Scotland and England.

Order of proceedings for a Civic Reception & Dinner held 27 July 1984: Front cover [?signed] by Councillor Senga Dallas, Vice-Chair of Hamilton District Council, and also bears the name of Provost Sam Casserly, Chair of Hamilton District Council, both names possibly written in the same hand(?).

Order of proceedings for a Civic Dinner held 27 July 2002: Attached is a napkin printed with the names and telephone numbers of The Crossways Inn, Gretna and The Crown & Thistle, Rockliffe.

Printed anniversary programmes commemorating the 25th anniversary of Torbothie Quoiting Social & Recreation Club and the centenary of Dunnottar Quoiting Club, Stonehaven.

Souvenir match programmes, 1932-1963, of international quoits matches played between England and Scotland and between England and Wales on English ground.

Souvenir match programmes, 1932-1963, of international quoits matches played between England and Scotland and between England and Wales on English ground.

Souvenir match programmes, 1939, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, of international quoits matches played between England and Wales on English ground. All items annotated.

Online printout relating to the Allen Valley Quoits League, Northumberland. Date noted as that of printout, not of the original article.

Hard-cover notebook containing statistics for Montgomeryshire County Quoiting League matches, 1948-1950.

Two notebooks containing minutes of Montgomeryshire County Quoiting League meetings, 1924-1940 (last entry signed and dated 6 April 1946) and 1975-1992.