by The Hockey Museum | Apr 8, 2016 | 2016 News Items
Primary schools have less than one month until The Hockey Museum’s Art of Hockey competition closes. The Hockey Museum’s Art of Hockey competition, supported by The National Hockey Foundation, is open to primary schools across the United Kingdom. Children...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 31, 2016 | Kit, Clothing and Equipment
In response to the many enquiries that we receive at The Hockey Museum our volunteers are constantly trawling through hockey publications in search of information. These searches often take twice as long as expected because we find unrelated pieces that are very...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 29, 2016 | Hockey's Military Stories, Men's Hockey
There are very few records of royalty playing hockey and even fewer of reigning monarchs. However, this reference relies entirely on what King George V said when he attended the international match between England and Ireland at Beckenham in 1921. Having met the...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 29, 2016 | 2016 News Items
Financing the setting up and the running of our museum has been a very interesting exercise over the past five years. The money came initially and mainly from our Volunteers and Friends, without whom there would never have been The Hockey Museum. More latterly our...
by The Hockey Museum | Mar 15, 2016 | 2016 News Items
In January we thought that we had found one of the ‘Holy Grail’ items of hockey when it was reported from Dublin that one of the 1908 Olympic Silver Medals had been discovered. We only had a small photo to go on but, as Ireland took the silver medal in the...