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Category: Dartboards and darts

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.…
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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…
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…
Dartboards and darts…

UNICORN AND THE SILVER COMET

19 Jan 2020
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

THE TONBRIDGE DARTBOARD

1 Nov 20191 Nov 2019
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

DORWIN DARTS

1 Nov 2019
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

THE NORTHWOOD COLLAPSIBLE DART

27 Oct 201927 Oct 2019
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

THE OPTIMAL DARTBOARD

27 Oct 201926 Dec 2019
MATHS PROFESSOR REDESIGNS DARTBOARD Back in the mid-1970s Darts World carried the news that the London or Trebles board had at last been recognised as standard for all major darts…
Dartboards and darts

DARTBOARDS – TOBACCO ADVERTISING

22 Oct 2019
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

THE ‘BATH’ DARTBOARD

21 Oct 201927 Oct 2019
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…

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