Curling History
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Curling at the 1924 Olympics: Part 3 - The Astley Myth

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by Bob Cowan This is the third part of the story of curling's debut as an Olympic sport in Chamonix 1924. Part 1 is here , and Part 2 ...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

The mystery of the Traquair painting

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by Bob Cowan You don't need an excuse to visit Traquair House, near Innerleithen, as 'Scotland's Oldest Inhabited House'...
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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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