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Category: Darts History

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…
Darts History…

‘THE EMBASSY’ – THE TOURNAMENT THAT CHANGED DARTS FOREVER

1 Oct 201921 Dec 2020
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 201920 Dec 2020
I have been friends with Arthur R. Taylor, the noted pub games expert for some years and was unaware until recently that he had, back in 2007 written about the…

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