Tinsley Green Marbles Championship

Marbles as usual.

Tinsley green marbles championship.

Tinsley green s annual marble tournament this year canadian soldiers and women compete. Marbles is an ancient and skilled game in which competitors aim to knock 49 marbles from a marked circle using their own tolley another marble. It went on mr. Easter parade phew.

Hyde park tinsley green and blackpool all seen at the easter holiday best. The greyhound pub at tinsley green hosts an annual competition attracting players from all over the world. Teams of six players participate to win the title and a silver trophy. Marbles championship at tinsley green.

The west sussex gazette said defeat of the favourites tinsley green tigers was the big surprise at the annual marbles championships at tinsley green near crawley on good friday. Dozens of marbles players from as far afield as the us and algeria descended on a sussex pub for the annual world championship. Men flicking marbles boys flicking marbles watched. It is held at the greyhound public house in tinsley green west sussex.

As well as houses farms and woodland it became the site of the 1930s aerodrome at gatwick now london gatwick airport. The 351st marbles championship is played at tinsley green before a huge crowd. Tinsley green is an area in the borough of crawley one of seven local government districts in the english county of west sussex originally a hamlet in the parish of worth it was absorbed by the new town of crawley in the 1940s and became part of the pound hill neighbourhood. Ideally located in tinsley green we are close to all the business parks in the area including manor royal and gatwick airport.

Two teams of six players take part in each heat and the winning team is the one whose tolley s stay in until the end you can probably. The greyhound is also the only place in the world who can boast being the host of the world british marbles championship. Tinsley green pub hosts world marbles championship. Radford rd tinsley green crawley west sussex rh10 3ns.

Follow us on facebook british and world marbles championship the sussex marbles season is of about 45 days in length and in the last century was very closely defined between ash wednesday and 12 noon on good friday so much so that good friday and in some places ash wednesday were known as marbles day. Marbles championship at tinsley green west sussex. Men flicking marbles boys flicking marbles watched by crowd. Marbles championship at tinsley green west sussex.

Hyde park tinsley green and blackpool all seen at the easter holiday best. Billy wright 50 toolmaker from christ s hospital retained the individual championship after a keen struggle with mr. Percy maynard copthorne.