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[lirazel]

Originally Posted by ally.h

darts, however, is banned under glasgow licensing laws.

al.

this from the "dartefacts" websites. i'm so pleased that i got to look at a website called "dartefacts".

The licensing justices of Liverpool and Glasgow imposed a ban on darts and other pub games a few months before the game's popularity was boosted by the 'royal' match. [the king & queen played a game in 1937]Their reasoning was quite clear. Despite the levels of drunkenness falling all across the nation since the end of the Great War, the level remained very high in these two cities.

The Burgh Licensing Court in Glasgow in 1939 decided to ban 'all kinds of games' on the grounds that they encouraged drunkenness or more especially what they termed 'ne'er do wellism'.

The Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Defence Association appealed and within a few months the ban was lifted for some games, dominoes included, but not darts.

The Liverpool justices were just as strict as those over the border and protestations reached as far as the House of Commons. A. P. Herbert, MP defended darts' case in Parliament, but even he, an avid supporter of pub games and a keen skittle player, was not able to convince the Home Secretary that the ban should be lifted.

The 'craze' for darts was ended by Adolf Hitler and the game would have to wait another thirty-five years or more before the profile was raised as high - or even higher.

The ban on darts in both Liverpool and Glasgow stayed in place until after the end of the Second World War. However, by 1949, the city of Liverpool had become a 'hot bed of darts' and in the early 1950s Glasgow hosted the first ever darts championship of Scotland.