Pub Games… FLY LOO – A PUB GAME THAT DEFIES THE LAW? 11 Nov 2020 Three years ago whilst browsing through a bound volume of late nineteenth-century copies of Tit-Bits I chanced upon an issue dated 28th May 1898 which included an article titled ‘Pastimes…
General… THE SILENT WOMAN/KING’S HEAD, WIDFORD, ESSEX 11 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 During my wife Maureen and my sojourn into Herefordshire in November 2018, we decided at the beginning of the week to visit the village of Bosbury which we had visited…
Dartboards and darts… COVID-19 – THE GREATEST-EVER THREAT TO DARTS AND OTHER PUB GAMES 4 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 While all around us (at least here in the UK) the plague that is Covid-19 appears to be easing, the UK Government allowed pubs and clubs to reopen from early…
Players… DAVE KELLY – US DARTS ACE 14 Jun 202029 Jun 2020 It is always a sad day when one hears about the passing of any well-known darts player. Regrettably, the month of June 2020 was no different. It is thanks to…
News Of The World… JOHN ZIMNOWODA 8 Jun 2020 Now there’s a surname to conjure with. I was researching something else in back issues of Darts World magazine dating back to the late 1970s when I noticed a report…
Pub History THE FOUR ALE BAR 11 May 2020 Many years ago a member of the Pub History Society asked “What is the origin of the phrase ‘four-ale bar’? I had always believed its origins lay in 4d (four…
Darts History… JOHN ROSS – ‘THE GRANDFATHER OF DARTS’ 10 May 202010 May 2020 On Monday 8th May 1989, shortly after his 85th birthday, John Ross passed away. He had been ill for some time. In this article I look back on the life…
Dartboards and darts… THE PERRANPORTH SPRING DART 5 May 2020 I have been researching the history and development of darts for many years and had always assumed the progress of the process of manufacture of dart barrels to be from…
Darts History… THE LENGTH OF THE OCHE 25 Apr 2020 When it was originally established in 1973, the British Darts Organisation (BDO) adopted the oche length the National Darts Association of Great Britain (NDAGB) had first set up in its…
Darts History… NEW ORGANISATION TO TAKE ON THE PDC AND BDO 31 Mar 2020 EMBARGOED UNTIL 12.01 A.M. (1.4.20) News released on the first of the month has reached me that, following a number of high-level meetings of half a dozen miscellaneous and misinformed…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 