Dartboards and darts DARTS HISTORY -THE OPTIMAL DARTBOARD 27 Oct 201920 Feb 2026 THE SEARCH FOR THE 'PERFECT' NUMBERING SEQUENCE Back in the mid-1970s Darts World carried the news that the London or Trebles board had at last been recognised as standard for…
Dartboards and darts DARTS HISTORY -DARTBOARDS AND TOBACCO ADVERTISING 22 Oct 201920 Feb 2026 For many years, before the ban on cigarette advertising here in the UK, a great number of dartboards were manufactured promoting tobacco products. The Hamlet (or 'Pizza') Dartboard Back in…
Dartboards and darts DARTS HISTORY -THE ‘BATH’ DARTBOARD 21 Oct 201920 Feb 2026 In 2013 Dr. Karen Francis of Cardiff contacted me. Karen was researching her family tree and had discovered that, at the turn of the twentieth century, members of her family…
Players ALLAN PLANT 21 Oct 201927 Oct 2019 I first met Allan Plant (pictured) in the early Noughties in Hull, England at the WINMAU World Masters and found him to be a very knowledgeable, engaging and fascinating man.…
Dartboards and darts… THE QUADRO 240 7 Oct 20196 Jan 2025 The QUADRO 240 board was introduced by Harrows Darts Technology in 1992. It had an extra ring between the treble ring and the outer bull which counted four times the…
Dartboards and darts… REGIONAL DARTBOARDS 7 Oct 20197 Oct 2019 OTHER DARTBOARDS IN PLAY In the following article, pub games expert Arthur R. Taylor, brings to our attention an array of regional and other dartboards that he has discovered over…
Darts History… JOCKY WILSON – SCOTLAND’S FIRST WORLD CHAMPION 1 Oct 20191 Oct 2019 JOCKY WILSON (22nd March 1950 – 24th March 2012) On the evening of 24th March 2012, just a few days after his 62nd birthday Jocky died at his home in…
Darts History… ‘THE EMBASSY’ – THE TOURNAMENT THAT CHANGED DARTS FOREVER 1 Oct 201921 Dec 2020 There were ‘world’ darts titles that were contested before 1978 but it was ‘the Embassy’ that lighted the road for the rest to follow, and follow they did. Before the…
Darts History… THE JOLLY SAILOR, AN INTERNATIONAL DARTS MATCH AND ‘THE PIT’ 23 Sep 201923 Sep 2019 People familiar with my research, especially when reading pieces I have written for Pub History, the quarterly magazine of the Pub History Society (PHS),will know that when inspiration for pub-specific…
Darts History… DARTS HISTORY – YE OLDE FAKE HISTORY OF YE OLDE GAME OF DARTS 20 Sep 20192 Mar 2026 I have been friends with Arthur R. Taylor, the noted pub games expert for some years and was unaware until recently that he had, back in 2007 written about the…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 