Pub Games PUB HISTORY – PUB GAMES -ROLL CURLING 21 Nov 201920 Feb 2026 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 DART HISTORY – DARTBOARDS-THE TONBRIDGE DARTBOARD 1 Nov 201920 Feb 2026 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…
Dartboards and darts DARTS HISTORY -DORWIN DARTS -THE DORWIN PENCIL CO. 1 Nov 201920 Feb 2026 The Dorwin Pencil Co was established in the late 1930s in Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire and went into actual dart production during the Second World War. The name is a contraction of…
Dartboards and darts DARTS HISTORY – THE NORTHWOOD COLLAPSIBLE DART 27 Oct 201920 Feb 2026 In the autumn of 2012 I was approached by Les G. via my website asking me if I knew anything about ‘The Northwood Collapsible Dart’. Les wrote “I can find…
Humour… THOMAS ‘TUMBLE’ TOMPKINS 27 Oct 201918 Nov 2021 Way, way back probably even before the first issue of Dr. Darts’ Newsletter (DDN) was published in 2010, I received an e-mail from Dennis D. an itinerant woodsman asking if…
Games & Setup… GAMESMANSHIP 27 Oct 201927 Oct 2019 HAS IT ANY PLACE IN PROFESSIONAL DARTS? It’s a while now since darts hit the headlines in some of the national newspapers and on-line when an escape of ‘gas’ disrupted…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 