Pub History PUB HISTORY – COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS – A BELATED ADDENDUM 8 Jul 202420 Feb 2026 I am sure that everyone who is interested in pub history and the coaching era, have at some stage, either come across during research or have purchased W. Outram Tristram’s…
Pub Games… PUB GAMES – FLY LOO – A PUB GAME THAT DEFIES THE LAW? 11 Nov 20202 Mar 2026 Three years ago whilst browsing through a bound volume of late nineteenth-century copies of Tit-Bits I chanced upon an issue dated 28th May 1898 which included an article titled ‘Pastimes…
General… PUB HISTORY – PUB SIGNS – THE SILENT WOMAN/KING’S HEAD, WIDFORD, ESSEX 11 Nov 20202 Mar 2026 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…
Dartboards and darts… DARTS HISTORY AND PUB GAMES HISTORY – COVID-19 – THE GREATEST-EVER THREAT TO DARTS AND OTHER PUB GAMES 4 Aug 20202 Mar 2026 While all around us (at least here in the UK) the plague that is Covid-19 appears to be easing, the UK Government allowed pubs and clubs to reopen from early…
Pub History PUB HISTORY – THE FOUR ALE BAR 11 May 202020 Feb 2026 Many years ago a member of the Pub History Society asked “What is the origin of the phrase ‘four-ale bar’? I had always believed its origins lay in 4d (four…
Pub Games PUB HISTORY – PUB GAMES -ROLL CURLING 21 Nov 201920 Feb 2026 Whilst undertaking research during 2014 I came across an outdoor pub game I had never seen or heard of before called ‘Roll Curling’. The photo depicts Mr. and Mrs. Victor…
Darts History… THE JOLLY SAILOR, AN INTERNATIONAL DARTS MATCH AND ‘THE PIT’ 23 Sep 201923 Sep 2019 People familiar with my research, especially when reading pieces I have written for Pub History, the quarterly magazine of the Pub History Society (PHS),will know that when inspiration for pub-specific…
Darts History… DARTS HISTORY – YE OLDE FAKE HISTORY OF YE OLDE GAME OF DARTS 20 Sep 20192 Mar 2026 I have been friends with Arthur R. Taylor, the noted pub games expert for some years and was unaware until recently that he had, back in 2007 written about the…
Darts History… DARTS HISTORY AND PUB GAMES HISTORY – THE INDOOR LEAGUE 31 Aug 20192 Mar 2026 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 games including darts…
Dartboards and darts… DARTS HISTORY – THE BUNGAY DARTBOARD AND THE BROOME ELECTRONIC DART TARGET 28 Aug 20192 Mar 2026 The Bungay Dartboard The firm of Gibson and Balls is not one that immediately springs to mind when thinking about dartboard manufacturers. Names such as WINMAU, NODOR and UNICORN are…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 