The house known as "The Fives Court"

A Court at Pinner

This article was written by Dale Vargas and appeared on the original EFA website

There is a private house in Pinner, Middlesex called The Fives Court. I have known of its existence for some time but rather lost interest when I found that it no longer contained a working fives court.

Portugal Place - RIP

This report first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1994/95

Awards for architectural excellence were never showered on the motley collection of red brick and glass-topped blocks at Portugal Place. In living memory no fresh coats of paint were in evidence, the furniture was always decrepit and in recent years only essential maintenance was carried out as the Damoclean sword hung ever more menacingly. But we played our games there and it was a special place for us.

1995 European Handball Championships

This article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Review 1994/95

Tony Hughes reports: Readers will of course be totally aware that the inaugural European One Wall Handball Championships were held in Mid-Wales at the May Bank Holiday, 1995. This Tournament followed the successful World Championships held in Dublin in October 1994.

A Visit to Malay College, 1994

The following article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1994/95

The Eccentric Sport of Eton Fives

'Off the wall, in the pepper the Barbers cut the mustard'

David Hunn watches the eccentric sport of fives, enjoyed with enthusiasm at Eton 

Reproduced by kind permission of the Sunday Times, 17th April 1994

Eccentricity in sport reaches its extreme in real tennis, but Eton Fives runs it close. The noble college has sat just over the river from Windsor for more than 500 years, hatching oddities for the back pages.

The Old Olavian Alan Barber Cup winning teams of 1971 and 2000

Old Olavians Fives Club

A precis of the early history 1928-1971

The following article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1993/94

Ipswich Fives: Early History to the Opening of the New Court in 1992

The following article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1992/93

Fives in Wales and Ireland

This article was written by Peter Knowles and first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report in 1991/92

Little, if any, fives is played these days in either Wales or Ireland but it was not always so. A Welsh team has competed in the International Tournament and there are Eton Fives courts, though sadly not in use, at Rydal School in Colwyn Bay.*

Fives at Harrow 1863-1991

The following article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1990/91

150 Years of Fives at Eton

The following article first appeared in the Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1989/90