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…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 