Darts Collection

Pub Darts Match
A serious darts match held in the Merlins Cave, Clerkenwell, between the home team and the Lord High Admiral in the Barclay League

Nancy Lancaster and David Niven
Mrs Ronald Tree and actor David Niven at a darts contest in a canteen. Nancy Lancaster (1897 - 1994), nee Perkins, was an influential American-born tastemaker, interior decorator and garden designer

Petticoat Lane, London - Birds eye view
Birds eye view of stalls on Petticoat Lane, London. A street clothes market on Wentworth Street and Middlesex Street. Secondhand clothes

Playing Darts, Worcestershire
A young boy playing darts, his board nailed to an outdoor pole, outside the Fleet (Arms?) pub, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Darts Team celebrate with a jug of ale, Walton, Essex
Members of the Pier Hotel Darts Team celebrate their victory with a jug of ale. 1947

Russo-Japanese War - Propaganda - Sinking toy Russian Ships
A superb Russo-Japanese War propaganda postcard - Japanese children (in uniform) and a Geisha sink toy Russian Ships with blowpipes and darts at a fair

WW2 Christmas Card, Interception
A comical WW2 Christmas greetings card, the illustration portrays three Royal Air Force men enjoying a game of darts, one of them foolishly enacts an itnerception by stepping in the way

Off Duty R. A. F. Men
A pair of illustrations showing various ways in which British Royal Air Force servicemen might spend their time off duty, examples include playing darts and writing letters to home. Date: 1941

Nickeloid Photograph, Darts
A crisp photograph of three darts hitting the board, produced as an advertisement for the services of Nickeloid. Date: circa 1939

Comic postcard, Darts match in pub - double top Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman complains about husband Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Conversation in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, novel use for gas mask, WW2 Date: 20th century

A Game of darts - Civil Defence Workers recreation. Date: circa 1942

Roman soldiers with spoils of war on the Arch for Titus
Roman soldiers march in procession with spoils of war or spolia on the Arch for Titus, the arch of triumph celebrating Emperor Tituss victory over Jerusalem

Masks and weapons used by the Unalaskans
Masks used by the Unalaskans in their dances; darts and the boards to throw them. From Joseph Billings and Martin Sauers An Account of an Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia

Counterweight machines for throwing darts and stones from Lipsius and others. One double that fires a stone from a sling. Copperplate engraving from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a

Scorpion, an ancient machine for firing darts. From William Newtons Designs for Vitruvius. Copperplate engraving by N.C. Goodnight from Francis Groses Military Antiquities respecting a History of

The catapulta. Ancient machine for projecting darts. From Mr. Newtons Designs for Vitruvius. Copperplate engraving by N.C

Machine and method for stringing the balista, an ancient machine for firing darts. From William Newtons Designs for Vitruvius

Chinese weapons or implements of war, Qing Dynasty. Halbert 1, scimitar 2, bows 3, 4, quiver 5, crossbow 6, crossbow darts 7, basket of crossbow balls 8, musket 9, iron crook 10, Hand of Justice 11

DARTS IN THE PUB / 1930S
A young couple play a game of 301-down in the pub. Date: 1930s

DARTS IN THE HOME / C1940
Two dapper couples enjoying a few legs of darts at home. Can she follow that treble twenty with two more? Date: circa 1940

Maison E Dorez Freres - Jewellers, Algiers, Algeria
Maison E Dorez Freres - Jewellers and producers of objets d arts and items of local craftsmanship - 10, Rue Socgemah Algiers, Algeria - founded in 1842. Date: circa 1901

Darby & Joan Club
The Darby & Joan Club, Scratchley House, Thornton Heath, Surrey, where lucky members can enjoy old time sequence dancing, whist, bingo, snooker or darts... Date: 1970s

Weybourne Summer Camp, April 1954
One of nine photographs of the Weybourne Summer Camp, April 1954.Shows a canteen tent, playing darts and table tennis in the canteen tent

Four soldiers playing darts in an army hut. Date: circa 1940s

Barbara Windsor at Darts Marathon, Cornwall
Barbara Windsor, actress, shaking hands with Malcolm Winters, darts player and pub employee, watched by other players, at the famous First and Last Inn at the village of Sennen, Lands End, Cornwall

Blackburn Darts aboard an aircraft carrier, including N9184 and N9552

Vickers Wellington TX LN715
Vickers Wellington TX, LN715, powered by two Rolls-Royce Darts for Viscount trials

Darts Team with wooden spoon, Walton, Essex
Members of the Walton-on-the-Naze Queens Head Darts Team, Essex, photographed with their trophy, a wooden spoon, awarded for coming bottom of the league. 1953

Malaysia - Men from the Sohail Tribe using blow pipes to hunt birds and small mammals with poison darts Date: 1928

Indoor Games
A selection of indoor games, including darts and a dart board, a roulette wheel and table cloth and packs of playing cards. Date: 1930s

DART BOARD
Darts sticking in a dart board - one of them has hit the bullseye! Date: 1980

Patient playing darts, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a patient in dressing gown and pyjamas playing darts in a rest room

Sketches of the evictions in Ireland
These sketches show scenes of evictions, trial, and Irish Land League activity in south west of Ireland. In the first sketch, the special artist of this publication is misunderstood by the crowd

A Game of Darts
Two men, one of them wearing a waistcoat, play a game of darts, chalking up the score next to the dart board

Police Playing Darts
Metropolitan Police officers relaxing playing a game of darts

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