Curling History
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

'Crawfordjohns'

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by Bob Cowan These curling stones, which date from the late nineteenth century, are a pair of 'Crawfordjohns'. In an article f...
Friday, August 23, 2013

The Prisoners of War who curled in Oflag IX A/H

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by Bob Cowan Many years ago, when I first heard the story that WW2 prisoners of war had been sent curling stones so that they could play...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

A Pouch for Your Handles

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David B Smith writes: When the handle came to be a necessary part of the curling stone it was at first permanently fixed to the top surf...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

More Uniroyal: Megeve, 1981

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Following the success of the Andrew McQuistin team at the 1980 Uniroyal World Junior Curling Championship, see here , Scotland's repre...
Friday, May 03, 2013

The Origins of World Junior Curling

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Anyone interested in researching the origins of the World Junior Curling Championships will easily find the records which say that the fir...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Curling at Midsummer

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David B Smith writes: While my colleagues have recently been spending time and energy finding the precise – and not so precise – locatio...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Mapping England's Curling Places

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by Bob Cowan Last year I was excited to find evidence of curling at Leamington Spa, in England, in the early years of the twentieth cent...
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