Wallops (Nine-Pins)

Description

Children playing wallops, or nine-pins, in the street at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). The game is played by throwing a stick from a distance at nine wooden skittles/pins set out in square. The object of the game is to knock down all nine skittles in as few throws as possible. Older men from the village can be seen playing quoits on the grass verge next to the road. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1746. With ms. note. Card 4 in a series of 6. Originally held in Photo File: Games.

Metadata

Identifier qgbpvwjt
IRN 412697
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/P1747
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qgbpvwjt
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Games: Photocards
Creator(s) Kissling, Werner
Date June-August 1964
Size and Medium 1 mounted photographic print.

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