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Category: Players

Darts History…

‘THE EMBASSY’ – THE TOURNAMENT THAT CHANGED DARTS FOREVER

1 Oct 201921 Dec 2020
There were ‘world’ darts titles that were contested before 1978 but it was ‘the Embassy’ that lighted the road for the rest to follow, and follow they did. Before the…
News Of The World…

GEORGE ‘PODGE’ ROGERS

20 Sep 201920 Sep 2019
George Rogers played for Durham County on 84 occasions, 50 times for the ‘A’ team and 34 times for the ‘B’, achieving around 50% success rate in both teams, a…
Players

TONY SONTAG – ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL

19 Sep 201919 Sep 2019
Tony Sontag was a long-time member of London County darts and was selected a number of times to play for England during the 1970s and 1980s. He was described by…
News Of The World…

OLIVER JAMES – WALES’ FIRST NEWS OF THE WORLD CHAMPION

19 Sep 201919 Sep 2019
Despite Wales sending Divisional champions to London for the Grand Finals of the News of the World every year since the competition was restored after the Second World War in…
News Of The World…

RON CHURCH – ‘THE LEANING TOWER OF SHOREDITCH’

18 Sep 201921 Oct 2019
Ron Church, runner-up in the 1973 News of the World individual darts tournament, was a popular London darter, played for London ‘B’ during the 1976/77 season and won the British…
Darts History…

HARRY HEENAN – THE PRIDE OF SCOTLAND

16 Sep 2019
Harry Heenan (b. 13th May 1936) was a proud Glaswegian darts player who burst on to the scene in the early 1960s.   Harry Heenan Harry was born in Glasgow…
Players

ERIC BRISTOW – 1957-2018

16 Sep 201921 Oct 2019
BRISTOW’S DEATH SHOCKS THE DARTS WORLD The announcement that Eric ‘The Crafty Cockney’ Bristow had died suddenly on Thursday 5th April 2018 came as a shock to all those who…
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…
Darts History…

THE INDOOR LEAGUE

31 Aug 201917 Nov 2021
THE INDOOR LEAGUE The Indoor League was a ground-breaking British television series launched by Yorkshire Television (YTV) in the early 1970s. The series featured a number of popular English pub…
News Of The World…

KIM ‘THE FOX’ BROWN

29 Aug 201928 Jan 2022
Kim Brown Darts legend Kim Brown (b. 30th December 1930) (pictured) died of cancer in the early hours of 29th December 2012 at his home in Knowle, near Bristol surrounded…

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