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Category: Darts History

Darts History…

MIKE GREGORY – DARTS PLAYER

10 May 202210 May 2022
Mike Gregory - Darts Player A tribute to Mike Gregory will appear in this space soon.
Dartboards and darts…

RECORD DEAL ANNOUNCED AS THE PROFESSIONAL DARTS CORPORATION AND WINMAU TEAM UP WITH OFFICIAL PARTNERSHIP

22 Feb 2022
An exciting new era for the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) has begun following the announcement that PDC events will be played exclusively using WINMAU dartboards in a record five-year partnership.…
Darts History…

CLIMAX 78 – THE FORK TRUCK DRIVERS’ DARTS TOURNAMENT

17 Nov 2021
In the late 1970s, sponsors were queueing up at the office of the British Darts Organisation (BDO) in London to put their money down to support the numerous televised darts…
Darts History…

GRAHAM FRITH -THE PHANTOM ARROW

17 Nov 2021
In the Summer of 1967, Ted Cain, the owner of a country club at Kirklinton, near Carlisle, was looking for a different stage attraction to entertain his patrons. He came…
Darts History…

CHARLES ‘CHARLIE’ BOWLEY – NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION 1930

20 Dec 202021 Dec 2020
It was a chance conversation that my wife had with a colleague at work back in 1988 which revealed the story of Charles ‘Charlie’ Bowley and his victory in the…
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…
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…

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