Swimming Pool Bars

Millions of families give garden parties every year, but pool parties are even better. You must have been to a pool bar in a hotel on holiday where one of the bars faces onto the water and there are seats in the water, usually totally submerged so that the drinkers can sit at the bar in the water and enjoy their drink. Imagine holding a party in your garden with a pool and an in-pool bar!

History of Cricket

It will come as a surprise to those who have not learned the history of cricket, but it is now thought that Cricket really originated in Saxon or Norman times as a children?s game played by children living in the region called the Weald of Kent in what is today Kent and Sussex in South East England . It was not taken up as an adult game until the beginning of the 17th century.

The Surprising History of Rugby

Today, every schoolboy knows the story of William Webb Ellis, the Rugby School pupil “who with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it”. The presentation trophy for the Rugby World Cup is known as the Webb Ellis trophy in his honour, and his “achievement” is honoured by a plaque at the school