by Hockey Admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Grassroots and Club Hockey, Women's Hockey
75 years ago in late December 1950, the Western Counties’ Women’s Hockey Association (WCWHA) Tournament was hosted in Weston-Super-Mare. Players and officials gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of hockey in the western counties, the first of the...
by Hockey Admin | Dec 16, 2025 | 2025 News Items
The Museum has received an enquiry about this medal (pictured) and believe it relates to a hockey competition held in Basra, Mesopotamia (that is to say, Basra in modern-day Iraq) following the First World War. Between 1914-1918, British and Indian Army troops fought...
by Hockey Admin | Dec 16, 2025 | 2025 News Items
The Great Britain (GB) honours cap of Scottish Olympic silver medallist William Neil White (player no. 49) was presented to his niece Mairi Pollock at Gullane Golf Club last month. Known as Neil, White was one of five Scotsmen in the GB hockey team that competed in...
by Hockey Admin | Dec 16, 2025 | 2025 News Items, From the Collection
How often do you reflect warmly on your experiences in hockey and the friendships made? These are recurring themes in our archive of oral history interviews [Oral Histories Audio – The Hockey Museum] and something we explicitly seek to capture in the objects and...
by Hockey Admin | Dec 15, 2025 | Obituaries
14.08.1927–01.12.2025 The Hockey Museum is saddened to report the death of Biddy Burgum, who at 98 was one of England’s oldest living international hockey players. Biddy had an outstanding playing career; she played for England from 1950 through to 1961 and then went...
