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Category: General

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LIONEL SMITH

30 Dec 2020
The popularity of my News of the World,featured more or less monthly in my global Dr. Darts’ Newsletter,seems to grow and grow. This particular post was inspired by one of…
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THE SILENT WOMAN/KING’S HEAD, WIDFORD, ESSEX

11 Nov 202011 Nov 2020
During my wife Maureen and my sojourn into Herefordshire in November 2018, we decided at the beginning of the week to visit the village of Bosbury which we had visited…
Darts History…

THE LENGTH OF THE OCHE

25 Apr 2020
When it was originally established in 1973, the British Darts Organisation (BDO) adopted the oche length the National Darts Association of Great Britain (NDAGB) had first set up in its…
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DARTS PINBALL

5 Dec 20195 Dec 2019
WERE YOU A DARTING PINBALL WIZARD? Back in the early 2000s I wrote darts-related pieces regularly for the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) often for their website and occasionally for tournament…
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…
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LUC MARREEL

21 Nov 2019
Belgium’s first top international darts star Luc Marreel was born in Gullegem, near Menin, Belgium on 5th February 1949. Luc (pictured) first came to prominence when he won the Frankrijk…
Games & Setup…

GAMESMANSHIP

27 Oct 201927 Oct 2019
HAS IT ANY PLACE IN PROFESSIONAL DARTS? It’s a while now since darts hit the headlines in some of the national newspapers and on-line when an escape of ‘gas’ disrupted…
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THE HALEX DARTS DOLLIES

15 Sep 201915 Sep 2019
In the late 1970s, as darts was emerging as a serious spectator sport and before the politically correct brigade came along and spoiled things for everyone, there were the Halex…
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THE DARTS CHAMPION AND THE GUINNESS LITHOGRAPHS

2 Sep 20192 Sep 2019
‘My company are planning to distribute a number of auto-lithographs to public houses, working men’s clubs etc. The subjects of these lithographs are to be taken from the Guinness Book…
Darts History…

DARTS AN OLYMPIC SPORT? does anyone really care?

18 Aug 201918 Aug 2019
Hearing the news in July 2019 that breakdancing has taken a step closer to inclusion in the 2024 Paris Olympics made me ask “What has happened to the case for…

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