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- [1980x2000] (Creation)
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1 envelope
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Printed tourist brochure relating to the town of Stonehaven, home of Dunottar Quoiting Club.
Printed map guide to the town of Stonehaven.
Printed leaflet relating to Dunnottar Castle, situated near the town of Stonehaven.
Printout or photocopy of poem/song by Allan G. Sproat titled 'Annan Quoiting Tournament - 24/07/1948', with printout photograph of [(?)presumably] Annan Quoiting Club.
Printed out or photocopied flyer/poster advertising 'Dickies Quoits', manufactured at the Victoria Stamping Works, Ayr.
Scottish Quoiting Association flyer containing a potted history of the game of quoits, together with contact details and quoit-playing vocabulary.
Photocopied material relating to the history of quoiting in Scotland.
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- English
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Allan G. Sproat may possibly be identified with: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4214873.
For James Dickie & Co (Drop Forgings) plc of the Victoria Stamping Works, Ayr see, for example: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Dickie_and_Co; https://blog.scottishagriculturalimplementmakers.co.uk/who-were-the-scottish-agricultural-implement-makers-in-1969/; https://www.ayronline.co.uk/info/384/.
The Scottish Quoiting Association was formed in 1880, with over sixty member clubs from across the country. It has been disbanded for a number of years. (https://sghet.com/project/quoiting-in-govanhill-glasgow/; see also, for example: https://blantyreproject.com/2017/12/scottish-quoiting-association-1927/).
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- Sproat, Allan G. (Subject)
- James Dickie & Co. (Ayr, Scotland) (iron manufacturers) (Subject)