Darts History… CLIMAX 78 – THE FORK TRUCK DRIVERS’ DARTS TOURNAMENT 17 Nov 2021 In the late 1970s, sponsors were queueing up at the office of the British Darts Organisation (BDO) in London to put their money down to support the numerous televised darts…
General… 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…
General… 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…
General 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…
General 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…
General… 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…
General… 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…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 