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East Anglian Jig-Saw Club
Jigsaw puzzle lending library, set up in the 1950's by Dolly McDougall and which continued to operate until around 1969, the last three years being run by her grandson Andrew Kershaw from Beccles in Suffolk.
The library began soon after Dolly's husband, the Rev. Rory McDougall, himself an accomplished cutter of wooden jigsaw puzzles, died in 1951. Dolly went on to expand the stock of puzzles herself, by learning to cut and became highly skilled and utterly fiendish in some of her own techniques.
When Dolly passed away in 1966 her grandson, Andrew Kershaw, took over the library and her fretsaw. He also became an adept cutter and added further to the stock, with his puzzles usually being housed in sturdy boxes, as opposed to the earlier cloth bags. Andrew operated the library from his home in Beccles for around three more years, but found that the time constraints associated with his full time job, coupled with a considerable increase in Post Office pricing, made its running no longer practical, so shut the library in around 1969.
I am privileged to have been able to acquire a considerable number of their puzzles, hoping to introduce some suitably-sized examples into my own British Jigsaw Puzzle Library, so that their combined efforts can continue to be appreciated and enjoyed.
There is also an album dedicated to
Andrew Kershaw to showcase some of his own independent creations.
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