Thursday, May 18, 2017
The Wanlockhead School Curling Club
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In 1908, the Wanlockhead village school received a letter from the Reverend John Kerr. The Royal Caledonian Curling Club chaplain wanted t...
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Friday, April 28, 2017
The brass band played on the curling pond
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Wednesday, February 21, 1855, dawned cold and fair. The ice on Corsebar Pond was good. The curlers of Paisley were soon engaged in a b...
Monday, April 17, 2017
One problem of growing old
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Back in the eighteenth century, when it was not possible to travel far, curlers would only have had the opportunity to play against those fr...
Monday, April 03, 2017
There wasn't always a house
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Curling these days is very colourful, and the painted circles at each end of the sheet contribute to making the game look attractive to ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
More from 1979. To see ourselves ... as others see us
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I wrote recently about the Royal Bank Ladies World Curling Championship in 1979 (the first world women's championship, see here ) and...
Saturday, March 18, 2017
The First World Women's Curling Championship
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Recognise the curlers on the photo above? This is a photograph of a Swiss women's curling squad, from a promotional postcard, duly a...
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