by Hockey Admin | Feb 19, 2025 | Obituaries
06.07.1945 – 07.01.2025 The Hockey Museum (THM) is saddened to report the death of Fran Taft on 7 January 2025 aged 79. Franny, as she was known to her friends, was an accomplished hockey player for Moseley Ladies Hockey Club and Warwickshire, but it was as a...
by Hockey Admin | Feb 19, 2025 | Obituaries
15.12.1944 – 26.01.2025 Few hockey players will have experiences to match those of Avtar Singh Bhurji, who died in London on 26 January 2025 at the age of 80. He played hockey at a high level in three countries: Uganda, England and Kenya. He was a hockey...
by Hockey Admin | Feb 14, 2025 | Oral History Interviewee Biographies
Sheila Morrow OBE represented Wales and Great Britain in hockey at international level before briefly turning to umpiring. After retiring from her playing career, Sheila became an official for the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and then a judge,...
by Hockey Admin | Jan 23, 2025 | Women's Hockey
In November 1964 Nottinghamshire Junior 1st XI captain Barbara Brindley led her team to a 5-1 victory with a determined spirit in a match at the Meridian Ground. Hockey Field magazine reporting on the match claimed that she, “broke up many Lincolnshire attacks”....
by Hockey Admin | Jan 23, 2025 | Hockey in Popular Culture
Was Blackheath Hockey Club player Montague Druitt the notorious London murderer dubbed Jack the Ripper? Montague John Druitt was born in Wimborne, Dorset. He was a member of Blackheath Hockey Club from 1881 until his death in 1888. A Classics graduate from New...
