history of pub darts?
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http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Darts.htm
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off the top of my head, hear go's\nBerreta, Miroku, parazzie, Aya, Benelli, zaballa, Mosberg, Remington, Webly&scott, Bsa, Purdy, holland&holland, Lamber, Greener&Greener, Rizzini, Baikal, Blaser, Browning, Churchill, Lincoln, shadow indy, Macnab, Winchester, Zolie, parker hale, fabarm, Westly richards, Krieghoff, Yelditz, Eibar, Gamba, Franchi,. \nI can not think of any more, but sure there is. \n\nAmong these are some british game guns,
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Check this site out.  I'm not a darts fan, but I can see where it might be interesting to some people.
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http://www.mostlywind.co.uk/legends.html\nhttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/ask_earl/20000920.html
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Although I don't know specifically, I know a bit *around* the topic.  I live in Bowling Green, which is named for having nice flat green spaces.  I also played an interesting "bowling" yard game while I was in Sweden that seemed a lot like bowling.  SO the way I imagine it is that the English had a similar yard game that was the predecessor of modern bowling.  It probably used a similar size ball as the Swedish game - a wooden (?) ball slightly larger than a softball, but definitely not as large as a modern bowling ball.  "Pins" would probably be carved of wood and would have ot be made stable enough to stand on soft turf, but tall enough to be knocked over by the ball - the Swedish game just had blocks of wood this size, but wealthy people might afford something sanded down to pegs or even already given a pin shape to make throws more difficult.  The game would be similar, but no gutters or return, of course - just the pins set up on a green (think putting green) and the players standing at a distance.  Depending on the class of the person playing, either servants or friends would help set up or remove the pins.  Of course, they probably weren't as pressed for time as we are today, so I suppose they could have just done it themselves.  Anyhow, I don't see how the scoring for... What is it called?  One round?  Anyhow, the terms "strike" and "spare" might have been invented then, but I doubt the games ran ten rounds... then again, there were 18 holes of golf, so why not?\n\nHopefully someone can confirm my suspicions!
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I can't find any results of their History on the web, but here is a good link to keep up to date with the latest news http://home.skysports.com/club.asp?cpid=22&clid=155
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Define Sport!! I play darts, but don't actually classify darts as a sport. I play darts to socialise with friends, Also to get away from the missus on a Monday night!!
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I've seen a handful of widgets - do you know what they are?  They are extinct now but they were used in factories in the UK as a measure of weight.  I was talking to a gentleman once about widgets in beer cans and he put his hand in his pocket and brought out about 30 tiny metal coin looking objects and explained the history to me.  Don't sell them for £10 they are probably worth a fortune now as collectors' items.
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See this please a little::::\n\nThe first reference to cricket being played is thought to be in 1300, between Prince Edward and his friend Piers Gaveston and the first recorded match took place at Coxheath in Kent in 1646. The first match between counties on 29th June 1709, when Surrey played Kent at Dartford Brent. \n\nThe earliest known cricket photographs were taken in 1857, by Roger Fenton at the Artillery Ground, when the Royal Artillery played Hunsdonbury. \n\nAs well as shepherds' crooks, early bats were clubs and sticks. These gave way to long, thin battes, which looked a bit like straightened-out hockey sticks, because the ball was bowled under-arm, and the batters swung their bats like clubs!!\n\nAnd this too....:::\n\n1788 First revision of the Laws of Cricket by MCC.\n1794 First recorded inter-schools match: Charterhouse v Westminster.\n1795 First recorded case of a dismissal “leg before wicket”.\n1806 First Gentlemen v Players match at Lord’s.\n1807 First mention of “straight-armed” (i.e. round-arm) bowling: by John Willes of Kent.\n1809 Thomas Lord’s second ground opened at North Bank, St John’s Wood.\n1811 First recorded women’s county match: Surrey v Hampshire at Ball’s Pond, London.\n1814 Lord’s third ground opened on its present site, also in St John’s Wood.\n1827 First Oxford v Cambridge match, at Lord’s. A draw.\n1828 MCC authorise the bowler to raise his hand level with the elbow.\n1833 John Nyren publishes his classic Young Cricketer’s Tutor and The Cricketers of My Time.\n1836 First North v South match, for many years regarded as the principal fixture of the season.\n1836 (approx) Batting pads invented.\n1841 General Lord Hill, commander-in-chief of the British Army, orders that a cricket ground be made an adjunct of every military barracks.\n1844 First official international match: Canada v United States.\n1845 First match played at The Oval.\n1846 The All-England XI, organised by William Clarke, begins playing matches, often against odds, throughout the country.\n1849 First Yorkshire v Lancashire match.\n1850 Wicket-keeping gloves first used.\n1850 John Wisden bowls all ten batsmen in an innings for North v South.\n1853 First mention of a champion county: Nottinghamshire.\n1858 First recorded instance of a hat being awarded to a bowler taking three wickets with consecutive balls.\n1859 First touring team to leave England, captained by George Parr, draws enthusiastic crowds in the US and Canada.\n1864 “Overhand bowling” authorised by MCC.\nJohn Wisden’s The Cricketer’s Almanack first published.\n1868 Team of Australian aborigines tour England.
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Cricket began in Northern Europe sometime after the Roman Empire and before the Normans invaded England.\nAll research concedes that the game derived from a very old, widespread and uncomplicated pastime by which one player served up an object, be it a small piece of wood or a ball, and another hit it with a suitably fashioned club. \n\nHow the game evolved from there is not known.\nWhat is agreed is that by Tudor times cricket had evolved far enough from club–ball to be recognisable as the game played today; that it was well established in many parts of Kent, Sussex and Surrey; that within a few years it had become a feature of leisure time at a significant number of schools; and – a sure sign of the wide acceptance of any game – that it had become popular enough among young men to earn the disapproval of local magistrates.
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Just back from Dublin where the ban on drinking in pubs, restaurants etc., has been banned now for over a year.  Now most pubs have a type of lean-to shelter in the rear garden where some smokers congregate.  Others stand outside the front door.  I like it, as I have always preferred smoking my pipe outside.  The off-shoots of the ban, are that a lot of pubs are no longer viable and are being converted into flats.  Also, takings are well down with off-licensed premises having a booming trade.
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Why..do you play darts...
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English Mark Darts is a name coined buy a vending company for their soft tip electronic dart game.
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I've never invented a game but I think that old fashioned lawn darts, the steel ones with the big spike was a pretty cool game.
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Here is a link on antique guns ...\n\nhttp://www.historicalarms.net/\n\nHope this helps!
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try this link: http://www.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=billiards+shops+near+worcester,+england, although some of those things appear to be junk
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Cornwall Aces.  Loved the logo.\n\n_