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- 1949, 2000-2010, 2013 (Creation)
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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.
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- English
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Copy of Albert Baker's The History of Quoits in Wales (J. R. Davies, 1949): all pages detached from spine. HANDLE WITH CARE.
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For Linda Evans see, for example: http://www.ukquoits.org/; http://www.ukquoits.org/page323.html.
Albert Baker was former Secretary of the Welsh Quoiting Board and author of The History of Quoits in Wales (J. R. Davies, 1949). For Albert Baker see also under heading Quoiting: Wales: Press cuttings. For The History of Quoits in Wales (J. R. Davies, 1949) see, for example: http://www.lindahome.co.uk/Quoits1/introduction.html; http://www.ukquoits.org/page17.html; http://www.ukquoits.org/.
The signature ('B. S. Jones') which appears on the front page of the booklet described here may be that of Bernard Jones, who reestablished the Montgomeryshire County Quoiting League in the early 1970s (see under heading Wales: Quoiting: Montgomeryshire).
The Wooldridges were a prominent quoiting family (see, for example: http://www.ukquoits.org/page50.html)
For Welsh national quoits team member Brian Penny see, for example: http://www.lindahome.co.uk/Quoits2/2006britchamppics.html; http://www.lindahome.co.uk/Quoits2/domestic/2005season.html; http://www.ukquoits.org/page193.html.
For Diana Parrott of the Harpenden & District Local History Society see, for example: https://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/harpenden-history/people-2/can_you_help_us_with_these_queries; https://www.harpenden-history.org.uk/harpenden-history/topics-cms/events-and-ceremonies/international_matches_played_in_harpenden; https://www.halh.org.uk/halh-awards-for-personal-achievement.html.
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- Evans, Linda, Joint Secretary of the Welsh Quoiting Board (Subject)
- Baker, Albert (Subject)
- Baker, Darryl (Subject)
- Penny, Brian (Subject)
- Parrott, Diana (Subject)
- Wooldridge, Joe (Subject)
- Gidea Park Quoits Club (Essex, England) (Subject)