The First Badminton Association

The First Badminton Association

       THE FIRST BADMINTON ASSOCIATION Major Seymour Sackville Carew Dolby Click on photos to enlarge The Badminton Association was formed after Major S.S.C. Dolby placed the notice in The Field, September 9th 1893 and the notice was also sent to all known badminton...
Birmal Aluminium Racket with Steel Strings c1924

Birmal Aluminium Racket with Steel Strings c1924

        Birmal Aluminium Racket with Steel Strings    c1924. The National Badminton Museum has managed to acquire an extremely rare Birmal aluminium badminton racket for the National Racket Collection. The Birmal racket was first advertised in the Badminton Gazette...
Cornhill Magazine – The Game of Badminton in 1863

Cornhill Magazine – The Game of Badminton in 1863

Cornhill Magazine The Game of Badminton in 1863 Click on images to enlarge. The National Badminton Museum has discovered through the Newspaper.com website, an article in the Wednesday 23 December 1863 Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post newspaper, which had published part of...
Hazell’s Streamline Blue Star Racket

Hazell’s Streamline Blue Star Racket

    Hazell’s Streamline Blue Star Mark 1 Racket. The National Badminton Museum has managed to acquire a second 1930s Hazell’s Streamline Blue Star badminton racket for the National Racket Collection. The main reason for having this racket is that so we can...
An Early Badminton Photograph from India

An Early Badminton Photograph from India

       AN EARLY BADMINTON PHOTOGRAPH FROM INDIA. Click on image to enlarge. The National Badminton Museum has discovered an early badminton photograph in a book with many different photographs from India.  The caption above the photograph says :- “Badminton party,...
The Game of Battledore and Shuttlecock

The Game of Battledore and Shuttlecock

THE GAME OF BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK. Click on images to enlarge. Battledore bats and shuttlecocks in Badminton House. Photo: – Geoff Hinder. The game of ‘battledore and shuttlecock’ dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The roots of the game have been...
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