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Watt, John [Jock] M (Speedway journalist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: fl 1950 - 1970

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Greenwood'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Harold Fairhurst'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Jimmy White. Gazette'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Ken McKinlay'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Noel Watson'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Peter Dykes'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/14
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Ron Phillips (Motherwell)'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Speedway World Champ. Roll London'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/16
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Tony Lewis'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/17
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Wilf Jay'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/18
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Notebook of John 'Jock' M Watt relating to Speedway, entitled 'Youngie'., Undated.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14486/19
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The notebooks here were used by Watt to record Speedway meets, results and interviews with Speedway riders. The Edinburgh Monarchs feature heavily in many of the volumes. Although they are mostly undated, the notebooks are likely to date from the 1950s.

While the notes mainly focus on Speedway, there are notes in some of the volumes relating to other sports, including football and boxing.

Dates: Other: Undated.

Papers of John 'Jock' Watt, Speedway reporter, including notebooks, photographs, letters and programmes.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14486/1-37
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise correspondence, notebooks, photographs and programmes of John ‘Jock’ Watt, a Speedway reporter. Although he was based in Edinburgh, the papers relate to meets across the UK and internationals. The notebooks make up the bulk of this archive and cover details of meets and interviews with riders.

Dates: 1951-1970, undated.

Programmes, fixture cards and ticket stubs for Speedway events., 1951-1970.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14486/37
Scope and Contents

This folder consists of programmes for a number of Speedway events, including fixtures for teams from the Edinburh Monarchs, Ashfield Giants, Lanarkshire Eagles, Leicester Lions, White City Speedway, Coventry, Oxford, Poole, Wembley, Sydney, England, Scotland, Great Britain, Sweden, and the Speedway Championship of the World. Many of the programmes have been annotated by Watt with results.

Also included are press passes, a fixture card and some ticket stubs.

Dates: 1951-1970.

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 37
Browse Resources 1
 
Subject
Notebooks. 36
Letters. Correspondence. 2
Programmes. 2
Fixture cards. 1
Photographs. 1