• Championship Cup »
The Cup was introduced with the inauguration of the competition in 2008 and is awarded to the best-performing team of all the leagues.
• Willie Roy Salver »
Willie Roy MBE was a leading light in the Watsonian and Corstorphine Curling Clubs for a very long time and was Chairman of the Edinburgh Ice Rink (i.e Haymarket) for some time. He was the Chairman and Managing Director of Millars Confectionary factory (famous for pan drops - ‘Millers Perfect Peppermints‘) situated in Ratcliffe Terrace, Edinburgh then relocated to West Lothian. He was a keen and very good curler and a member of many clubs including Holyrood and Edinburgh Rotary as well as Watsonians, Corstorphine and the Vets. If you phoned him at the works, the telephone operator would ask if you wanted ’ Mr Roy’s Secretary or his curling Secretary‘! He donated several trophies including the Midlothian Province salver, one for a young Gogar Curlers competition and the one for which Watsonians play a knock out competition. The MBE was for services to the Confectionary Industry.
Willie is still alive in his 96th year, mentally astute but confined to wheel chair assistance, and living in the Ravelston area.
• Jack Scroggie Salver »
• Donald Forbes Quaich »
Hon Secretary/Treasurer before Bill Manson. Ex-College teacher and linguist, Scots Guards officer and former Headmaster of Merchiston Castle School. A dedicated curler, he was in the habit of competing in Switzerland every year. His attire of choice for curling invariably featured plus-fours and tam-o'-shanter. The Donald Forbes Quaich was presented by him to the Club in his last year as Secretary.
• Forbes Grant Trophy »
Forbes Grant was a skip in the 1980s and a trophy winner in 1991 and 1993. An agricultural expert, he was head of farming business in the Bank of Scotland. He returned to live in Forres.
• Banks Brothers Quaich »
Norman and Stanley are still active members of the Vets. As the Tuesday League was short of trophies, they decided in 2008 to present the Quaich to be awarded to the Tuesday runners-up.
• Murray McGregor Quaich »
The Murray Macgregor Cup was competed for many years ago, but was in a cupboard at Murrayfield for a long time. Iain Baxter contacted Murray who now lives in Canada and he was happy that the Cup be given to the Vets.
• Thursday League Runners Up »
• Frank Black Trophy »
Frank Black was a Banker in Hong Kong before retiring to Edinburgh. He was a small man hence his nickname in Hong Kong of ‘Tich’. He was a founder member of the Fanlingerers, a Club based in Edinburgh open to anyone who had lived or worked or even visited Hong Kong. Its primary purpose was to raise money for the War Blinded at Linburn in West Lothian. This was done mainly through golf competitions among the members. On his 72nd birthday, Frank played 72 holes (4 rounds) at Luffness and raised a considerable sum for Linburn through sponsorship. Sadly the Fanlingerers were wound up a few years ago but a contingent of ex Hong Kong residents in and around Edinburgh still have golf outings from time to time.
• Buster Wallace Trophy »
Charles Gordon (Buster) Wallace was a very successful Hon Secretary Treasurer of the Vets from 1982 to 1992, preceding Donald Forbes. He won the Willie Roy trophy in 1988. He grew up in Auchendinny, Midlothian. He wanted to become a doctor but his father would not allow him to go to university and he attended the ‘University of Life’ at Carrongrove Paper Mill, Denny. He served in the RA during the Second World War and thereafter in the TA. Postwar he returned to Dalmore Paper Mill, Auchendinny, succeeding his father as Managing Director in 1959.He served on many papermaking committees as member and office bearer and as a director of other paper mills and of his old School, the Edinburgh Academy. He moved to Longniddry in 1976, retired as MD of William Somerville & Sons in 1980 but continued as Chairman until 1985.
He was a keen golfer - member at Luffness and a keen curler with Aberlady, Edinburgh Academicals and the Vets. He was an early personal computer fan.
• Bussy NimmoTrophy »
Bussy Nimmo was a trophy winner in 1977. By the end of his playing days his eyesight had deteriorated to such an extent that his skip had to put a white hankie over the broom. He could only draw. His name also appears (as a memorial) on the donor list for the Playfair extension at the National Galleries.
