by Hockey Admin | Sep 12, 2024 | Grassroots and Club Hockey
Scarborough Easter Hockey Festival is generally recognised as the United Kingdom’s first hockey festival, however this assertion is difficult to verify. No newspaper reports of it in 1905 have come to light, yet we know that Easter hockey activity took place, whether...
by Hockey Admin | Sep 12, 2024 | 2024 News Items
In the past fortnight we’re pleased to have made two more women’s Great Britain (GB) honours cap presentations, which means that there are only 17 more to go to complete the total of 212 GB women players. On Saturday 24 August, Erica Sanders (GB player no. 202,...
by Hockey Admin | Sep 12, 2024 | From the Collection, Grassroots and Club Hockey, Hockey in Popular Culture
A still from the BBC drama, The Best of Men (2011). Credit: BBC. The earliest recorded wheelchair games in the United Kingdom (UK) took place as part of the sports day for staff and patients held at the Royal Star and Garter home in Richmond, Surrey, in 1923....
by Hockey Admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Grassroots and Club Hockey, Men's Hockey, Mixed Hockey, Women's Hockey
Puritans Hockey Club was formed in 1953 from members of the returned armed forces. Its founders often met in the Soho area of London to sing old army songs. Realising that several played hockey, they began to arrange invitation matches on Sundays. The assortment of...
by Hockey Admin | Aug 8, 2024 | International Hockey
Distant relatives and hockey internationals Flora Peel and Frederick Bryan Peel. Credits: Flora Peel courtesy of Team GB | Frederick Bryan Peel courtesy of the family. Flora Peel, who played in midfield for the Great Britain (GB) women’s hockey squad at the...
