General DARTS PINBALL 5 Dec 20195 Dec 2019 WERE YOU A DARTING PINBALL WIZARD? Back in the early 2000s I wrote darts-related pieces regularly for the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) often for their website and occasionally for tournament…
Darts History… DARTS AT SEA – R.M.S. SAMARIA 3 Dec 2019 DARTS ON THE OCEAN WAVE Back in 2015 Dave J. wrote to me asking for help in identifying the date the darts shown here were made. Eventually between the two…
Darts History… OLLY CROFT O.B.E. 24 Nov 201924 Nov 2019 THE 'GODFATHER' OF MODERN DARTS DIES AT THE AGE OF NINETY It was with a heavy heart that I learned today of the death of Olly Croft OBE. Back in…
Australia… GEORGE FOSTER 22 Nov 201922 Nov 2019 AUSTRALIAN DARTS ACE The name George Foster may not be a name that instantly springs to mind today but rest assured that he deserves his place in darts history. I…
Pub Games ROLL CURLING 21 Nov 2019 Whilst undertaking research during 2014 I came across an outdoor pub game I had never seen or heard of before called ‘Roll Curling’. The photo depicts Mr. and Mrs. Victor…
Australia… KEVIN WHITE 21 Nov 201921 Nov 2019 AN AUSTRALIAN DARTS STAR On 20th May 2015 the death was announced of top Australian darts player, Kevin White. Kevin White (right) with George Foster - 1976 Unicorn Unicorn World…
General LUC MARREEL 21 Nov 2019 Belgium’s first top international darts star Luc Marreel was born in Gullegem, near Menin, Belgium on 5th February 1949. Luc (pictured) first came to prominence when he won the Frankrijk…
Ladies Darts LILIAN BROADBENT (BARNETT) 21 Nov 201921 Nov 2019 New Zealander, Lilian Broadbent (formerly Barnett) made darts history in 1985 when she became the first non-British winner of the WINMAU Women’s World Masters at the Rainbow Suite, Kensington, London…
Dartboards and darts THE TONBRIDGE DARTBOARD 1 Nov 20191 Nov 2019 Rupert Croft-Cooke was an itinerant author who it seems could, and did, write about anything and everything. He was the very first person to write a book exclusively about darts.…
Books… DARTS PLAYERS’ BIOGRAPHIES 1 Nov 2019 TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS I am always on the lookout for new books about darts especially biographies of famous (and not so famous) darts players and so it was…
