Tinsley Green Marbles Championship

The greyhound is also the only place in the world who can boast being the host of the world british marbles championship.

Tinsley green marbles championship.

The 351st marbles championship is played at tinsley green before a huge crowd. Tinsley green pub hosts world marbles championship. Teams of six players participate to win the title and a silver trophy. It went on mr.

Men flicking marbles boys flicking marbles watched. Marbles championship at tinsley green west sussex. Marbles as usual. 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.

As well as houses farms and woodland it became the site of the 1930s aerodrome at gatwick now london gatwick airport. 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. The event is open to anyone of any age or nationality. Marbles championship at tinsley green.

Men flicking marbles boys flicking marbles watched by crowd. Easter parade phew. Tinsley green s annual marble tournament this year canadian soldiers and women compete. Radford rd tinsley green crawley west sussex rh10 3ns.

Easter parade phew. Hyde park tinsley green and blackpool all seen at the easter holiday best. The british and world marbles championship is a marbles knock out tournament that takes place annually on good friday and dates back to 1588. It is held at the greyhound public house in tinsley green west sussex.

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. Marbles championship at tinsley green west sussex. The greyhound pub at tinsley green hosts an annual competition attracting players from all over the world. Percy maynard copthorne.

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. Ideally located in tinsley green we are close to all the business parks in the area including manor royal and gatwick airport.