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Category: Darts History

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

DART HISTORY – DARTBOARDS-THE TONBRIDGE DARTBOARD

1 Nov 201920 Feb 2026
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

DARTS HISTORY -DORWIN DARTS -THE DORWIN PENCIL CO.

1 Nov 201920 Feb 2026
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

DARTS HISTORY – THE NORTHWOOD COLLAPSIBLE DART

27 Oct 201920 Feb 2026
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

DARTS HISTORY -THE OPTIMAL DARTBOARD

27 Oct 201920 Feb 2026
THE SEARCH FOR THE 'PERFECT' NUMBERING SEQUENCE Back in the mid-1970s Darts World carried the news that the London or Trebles board had at last been recognised as standard for…
Dartboards and darts

DARTS HISTORY -DARTBOARDS AND TOBACCO ADVERTISING

22 Oct 201920 Feb 2026
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

DARTS HISTORY -THE ‘BATH’ DARTBOARD

21 Oct 201920 Feb 2026
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 20196 Jan 2025
The QUADRO 240 board was introduced by Harrows Darts Technology in 1992. It had an extra ring between the treble ring and the outer bull which counted four times the…

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