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Category: Darts History

Darts History…

NEWS OF THE WORLD – TREBLE 20 GUILD

24 Mar 2020
Back in 2016 Daryl H., a long-time subscriber to my Dr. Darts’ Newsletter (DDN) wrote to me saying: I read some info in [your] newsletter regarding the News of the…
Darts History…

SAMMY STONE – FIRST WINNER OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

23 Jan 202023 Jan 2020
One of the key dangers of the internet for darts fans is that in some cases there is no historical basis for some of the material that appears online about…
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,…
Darts History

THE NODOR FOURS – THE NODOR CHALLENGE CUP

26 Dec 2019
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NODOR FOURS FOCUSING ON THE 1959 CHAMPIONS – THE GLOUCESTER ARMS, SURBITON In its day the national NODOR Fours tournament was to darts teams what…
Darts History…

FALLON SHERROCK AND ‘THE GLASS CEILING’

21 Dec 201923 Mar 2020
I thought I would delay writing anything about Fallon Sherrock’s magnificent achievement at the PDC William Hill World Darts Championships on Tuesday 17th December at the Alexandra Palace until now;…
Darts History…

DARTS AT SEA – R.M.S. SAMARIA

3 Dec 2019
DARTS ON THE OCEAN WAVE Back in 2015 Dave J. wrote to me asking for help in identifying the date the darts shown here were made.  Eventually between the two…
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…

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