Quoits: The Poddle
Description
Adult male holding a walking stick as a marker at which pocket knives are thrown to decide turns and partners at the start of a quoits game. Four knives can be seen lodged in the ground near to the walking stick. This process is known as the poddle. The game is being played on a grass verge next to the road at Castle Bolton ( Wensleydale). The pin (stick) and quoits from a previous game can be seen on the grass in the foreground. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1764 and LAVC/PHO/P1766. With ms. note. On the back of the card is a Yorkshire dialect account in ms. of a conversation about starting a game of quoits. Card 1 in a series of 2. Originally held in Photo File: Games.
Metadata
| Identifier | wpx3sx2w |
| IRN | 412715 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/P1765 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/wpx3sx2w |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Games: Photocards |
| Creator(s) | Kissling, Werner |
| Date | July 1964 |
| Size and Medium | 1 mounted photographic print. |