by The Hockey Museum | Mar 24, 2022 | International Hockey, Women's Hockey
The first England women’s hockey team (1896). Mary D’Oyley is seated middle row, right of centre next to the lady holding the ball. Mary has her cap on her stick. When England’s Mary D’Oyley (nee Piper) lined up against Ireland at Alexandra College,...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 17, 2022 | 2022 News Items
Peter Smith receives his cap from GB Hockey President Sheila Morrow. On 10 March, Great Britain Hockey President Sheila Morrow travelled to Somerset to present Peter Smith with his honours cap. Peter is nowadays confined to bed but remains mentally very...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 16, 2022 | 2022 News Items
Avtar Singh Sohal (affectionately known as Tari), now 83, is widely respected as the greatest Kenyan hockey player of all time. His elite hockey career began when he represented British Kenya (Kenya was then a colony of the British Empire) during the Rome...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 4, 2022 | 2022 News Items
Out-going Curator and The Hockey Museum Founder Mike Smith congratulates in-coming Curator Shane Smith. On Thursday 24 February, The Hockey Museum (THM) ‘re-launched’ itself with a new exhibition for 40 or so invited guests. At this event...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 4, 2022 | Obituaries
09.12.1942 – 14.02.2022 Hockey goalkeeper, umpire, umpire developer, administrator extraordinaire, strong amateur tennis player, renowned public speaker, battlefield historian, great friend to many and lastly, but not least, a quiz star! Mike Ward: Yes,...
