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…
Darts History… ‘THE EMBASSY’ – THE TOURNAMENT THAT CHANGED DARTS FOREVER 1 Oct 20191 Oct 2019 There were ‘world’ darts titles that were contested before 1978 but it was ‘the Embassy’ that lighted the road for the rest to follow, and follow they did. Before the…
Darts History… THE JOLLY SAILOR, AN INTERNATIONAL DARTS MATCH AND ‘THE PIT’ 23 Sep 201923 Sep 2019 People familiar with my research, especially when reading pieces I have written for Pub History, the quarterly magazine of the Pub History Society (PHS),will know that when inspiration for pub-specific…
Darts History… YE OLDE FAKE HISTORY OF YE OLDE GAME OF DARTS 20 Sep 2019 Until recently, a great deal of what passed for darts history was nonsense. There were two problems. Firstly, people who wrote knowledgeably about the contemporary game knew nothing of its…
Organisers and Commentators les france – a legend in darts organisation 18 Sep 2019 Les France in the early days The one thing I will always remember about darts people is that, almost without exception, they are nice folk; people who love what they…
Organisers and Commentators FREDDIE WILLIAMS – MASTERCALLER 17 Sep 201917 Sep 2019 Freddie Williams, probably the best referee and MC darts has ever known passed away in 2015 aged 81. Freddie in action at the Embassy World Finals (Image copyright PC/DW Archive)…
Organisers and Commentators FRANK QUINN 17 Sep 2019 I was saddened to learn of the death in 2015 of Frank Quinn one Scotland’s greatest darts organisers and officials. The formal notification on the Scottish Darts Association website written…
