In July last year, we asked ( see here ) if anyone knew the whereabouts of the Silver Broom, the trophy that was awarded to the winners of t...

My curling career started at Crossmyloof Ice Rink in the early 1960s when I was a pupil at Hutchesons' Grammar School, just across the r...

One of the little-sung heroes of Scottish curling history is the Rev. John Ramsay. Like many a man of the cloth he was a keen curler. He joi...

Robin Copland has written about the Canadian curlers' visit to Scotland in 1909. His booklet, Curling in the Footsteps of History, is re...

CHAPTER FOUR– AN UNSCHEDULED GAME AT MYRESIDE by Robin Copland That there was a rink to play on at Myreside at all was due to a young ground...

CHAPTER EIGHT – THE MAMMOTH BANQUET DAY! by Robin Copland The 20th January was described in contemporary reports as “the red-letter day of t...

CHAPTER ELEVEN – THE TEST MATCHES AND THE STRATHCONA CUP by Robin Copland From the outset, it was understood that although friendly competit...