Dartboards and darts THE CASINO DARTBOARD 20 Oct 2025 A different way to play CASINO DARTBOARD Back in March 2022, I received an enquiry, from Stuart M. via the Darts From the Past Facebook page, asking about the Casino…
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.…
Dartboards and darts… DARTS HISTORY AND PUB GAMES HISTORY – COVID-19 – THE GREATEST-EVER THREAT TO DARTS AND OTHER PUB GAMES 4 Aug 20202 Mar 2026 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…
Dartboards and darts… DARTS HISTORY – THE PERRANPORTH SPRING DART 5 May 202020 Feb 2026 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…
Dartboards and darts… DARTS HISTORY – UNICORN AND THE SILVER COMET 19 Jan 202020 Feb 2026 On 16 August 1986, at very beginning of my journey to discover the origins and development of the sport of darts, I drove to London to interview Stanley Lowy MBE,…
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.…
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…
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…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 