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encyclopaedic knowledge of the association’s history has been invaluable. But I must also thank Doreen Boyle, Sally Spaven, Viola Lewis, Mary Kemp Clarke, Richard Thomson, Norma Clarkson, Maggie McLeod, Ken Hanley, Toni McPherson, Marilyn Hunter, Jan Philip, Margaret Anderson, Michael Glen, Morag Dunbar, Bill Combe, Norma Allan, Kristine Sander, Alan MacDonald, Susan Shedden, Tom Caskie, Helen Manning, Des Brogan, Dave Tucker, Evelyn Tiefenbrun, David Arthur, Margaret McCann, Bruce Cochran, Elma McMenemy, Catriona Anderson, Andrew Thackrey, Keith Laing, Lyn Brown, Stewart Noble, Jean Blair, Gail Fotheringham, Sue Casely, Andy Middleton, Marianne Everett de Vink, Gavin Hunter, Akiko Elliot, Atsuko Clement, Sachiko McKay, Misako Udo, Inge Wanless, Patricia Long, Joan Dobbie, and Sue Gruellich. Special thanks go to Miikka Kinnaird and Dot Wylie for helping me find source material including committee documents, guide directories and newsletters. I would also like to thank the Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News for letting us use their images. Finally, I would like to thank Fiona Maxwell who proof read my copy. We must also thank those guides who are no longer with us for keeping a record of its activities without which this history could not have been written.
Sadly, there is very little material relating to the early days of the STGA but hopefully more will emerge over the years to come. And as for the future? Well, I am an optimist by nature, and you can be sure we will see tourist guides return. New skills and new ways of working will be required and I am confident members of the Scottish Tourist Guides Association will meet that challenge. You can find out more about the association on www.stga.co.uk
Alasdair Northrop, North Berwick, May 2020.
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