Darts History… OLLY CROFT O.B.E. 24 Nov 201924 Nov 2019 THE 'GODFATHER' OF MODERN DARTS DIES AT THE AGE OF NINETY It was with a heavy heart that I learned today of the death of Olly Croft OBE. Back in…
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…
Dartboards and darts… THE QUADRO 240 7 Oct 20197 Oct 2019 The QUADRO 240 board was introduced by Harrows Darts Technology in 1992. It had an extra ring between the double ring and the outer bull which counted four times the…
Dartboards and darts… REGIONAL DARTBOARDS 7 Oct 20197 Oct 2019 OTHER DARTBOARDS IN PLAY In the following article, pub games expert Arthur R. Taylor, brings to our attention an array of regional and other dartboards that he has discovered over…
Darts History… JOCKY WILSON – SCOTLAND’S FIRST WORLD CHAMPION 1 Oct 20191 Oct 2019 JOCKY WILSON (22nd March 1950 – 24th March 2012) On the evening of 24th March 2012, just a few days after his 62nd birthday Jocky died at his home in…
