by Bob Cowan In the early years of the twentieth century, mountain resorts in Switzerland became popular as winter holiday destinations....

by Bob Cowan The possible advantages of railways in transporting curlers and their stones to compete in bonspiels had been recognised as...

by Bob Cowan In a previous post ( here ) I wrote about Lady Henrietta Gilmour, a pioneer of women's curling in Scotland at the end o...

by Bob Cowan The photo above can be found in the magazine Hearth and Home of March 14, 1895. It depicts four women on the ice, and is p...

by Bob Cowan Most involved in Scottish curling will have come across the name of Andrew Henderson Bishop. The trophy he presented and wh...

Book reviewed by David B Smith One of the most remarkable - and least publicised - 'by-products' of the Commonwealth Games in Gl...

by David B Smith On a recent surf of the internet seeking items of curling interest I was quite surprised to see in a Swiss auction hous...