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Auchentibber's Quoiting Club

Auchentibber's Quoiting Club

Auchentibber's Quoiting Club was almost as famous as its surrounding gardens, and the village won the Scottish Cup in 1928, twenty years after this picture was taken.

Today, Auchentibber has shrunk to a handful of houses contained in one tiny street. It still has the substantial war memorial (with pillars from Hamilton Palace), and this marks the start of where the garden walkways would have been. Beyond these, it is possible to make out the flat surface of the former Quoiting Green, now completely overgrown.

The other side of the main road was once lined with cottages, although every trace of rubble has now gone and most of the land has reverted to the countryside it started off as. Local complaints centre on the lorries that hurtle passed the village at breakneck speed en route to a landfill site, filling the otherwise quiet road with dust.

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