Though this photo is slightly outwith Blantyre in what is now Calderglen Country Park, it’s worth showing here. I recognise a couple of these men from Auchentibber and the photo dates from between 1905 – 1910. This is the horseshoe weir, part of Torrance estate and the structure still exists today. Back then, this would […]
This previously unseen photo is of course the former Auchentibber Quoiting Green. Taken just over a hundred years ago in the 1910’s, it’s in remarkable clarity. Indeed, I can zoom in on the children’s faces, the sign on the pol, the litter in the waste paper baskets and the Statue of Poseidon! To put this […]
This is the former Auchentibber Gardens taken around 1910 – 1915. I’m able to date this wonderful photo, for following these years of research, I actually recognise the distinctive man on the left as being Mr James Nimmo. Knowing he was born in 1869 and believing him to be in his 40s here, I think […]
Karen MacKellar was kind enough to share this little list of the Scottish Quoiting Association registered clubs for the season 1927, adding, “My Dad is Boyd Falconer (Bidie) and he and his brother Billy were both Scottish Champions many times over…following in the footsteps of their Uncle Wull Penman. My Dad reinstated Birkenshaw Quoiting […]
Continuing our look at the memoirs and research by former Auchentibber resident Flora Dickson Potter. This time, discussing the quoiting green and the sport itself. In her written words, recorded before she passed away: “The quoiting club of Auchentibber was instituted in 1900, probably before the Inn ownership passed into the hands of JBH Struthers […]
I’ve previously shown this photo of one of the many Quoiting teams in Blantyre taken in 1908, and thought it to have been the Quoiting Green at Broompark Road, where Smiths Garage was, near Causeystones. However, I’ve been forced recently to change my opinion on this, following the discovery of many more quoiting greens and […]
A story appeared in the Glasgow Herald on 23rd August 1850, which recorded what is known to be the earliest game of Quoits in Blantyre. It states, “On Saturday, 17th current, a match at this manly game came off at Blantyre, between the parishes of Cambuslang and Hamilton, by six players from each parish, which […]