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Category: Darts History

Darts History…

A Brief History Of Ladies Darts

22 May 201913 Oct 2022
Darts playing became a cult in Britain in the 1930s and this brought darts to the attention of thousands of women throughout the country. In December 1937 King George VI…
Darts History

History Of The Ingatestone and District Darts League

22 May 201928 Jun 2019
by Kevin J Stammers In 1981, I ventured into the Crown in Ingatestone High Street and borrowed the pub darts and had a couple of games with the locals who…
Darts History

The Lightning Dart Scorer

22 May 201928 Jun 2019
The Lightning Dart Scorer Some time during the 19th century the chalk and dartboard replaced the cribbage board as the standard method of scoring a game of darts. Since the…
Darts History

The Language Of Darts

22 May 201916 Aug 2019
‘The man who cannot speak the lingo of the dart is nowadays an outcast’ Alan and Geoffrey D’Egville (Darts with the Lid Off (1938)) In July 2004 I received an…
Darts History

The Nodor – Winmau Story

22 May 20194 May 2023
A Brief History... How These Two Companies Merged by Frank Bilotta with Patrick Chaplin, the Darts Historian Nodor, Winmau for the first time under one roof The British history of…
Darts History…

NINE-DARTERS

22 May 201911 Dec 2021
Who Threw The Very First Nine-Darter? I receive a good number of darts history questions via my website, but one I received in February 2003 from a dart fan in…
Dartboards and darts

Numbers On The Dartboard

22 May 201921 Oct 2019
WHY ARE THE NUMBERS ON A DARTBOARD IN THE ORDER THEY ARE? This is probably the most asked question about the origins of the modern game. Who was the devious…
Darts History

The People Band

22 May 201928 Jun 2019
‘If Music Be The Food of Darts…Play On!’ The People Band The People Band - (Odham Press) If anyone mentions ‘music’ and ‘darts’ in the same breath, you could be…
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DARTBOARDS WERE MADE FROM PIG BRISTLE?

22 May 201921 Dec 2020
When the world’s first ‘bristle’ dartboard was introduced in England in the 1930s, word soon spread around via the less well informed that the boards were actually made of pig…
Dartboards and darts…

Strange But True

22 May 201921 Dec 2020
GAAAAAMMEE! In the late 1990s in Merseyside, England an unusual occurrence is recorded at the movies. A young couple cuddled up to each other during an horrific scene in a…

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