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20/05/2026

Honoured to have legend Safdar Abbas (centre) visit the Museum today. The youngest ever Pakistan international player and youngest goalscorer aged 16 years old at the 1973 World Cup.

24/04/2026

Hockey Shorts 🏑🩳 - https://mailchi.mp/bc8d0fae72ec/hockey-shorts

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🍽️Our second successful fundraising City Lunch
✍️The family correspondence of England international Vera Cox
📈Katy Roberts joins our board of trustees
📨Visit from the Woking Philatelic Society
🏑Obituaries of hockey greats Vonnie Gros, Sukhi Rao & Len Smith

11/04/2026

It's National Pet Day! 💙

Today we are celebrating our love of pets with a post of The Hockey Museum team and our furry friends, as well as scrapbook photographs from the archive of hockey players and their companions in the 1930s! 🏑🐾

We'd love to see your pets! Tag in a post of your furry friend or share a photo in the comments below!

06/04/2026

The Hockey Museum will be closed this week (week commencing Monday 6th April) while we undertake building work. The Museum will re-open on Tuesday 14th April.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

27/03/2026

Hockey Shorts 🏑🩳 - https://mailchi.mp/2cdf55006d46/hockey-shorts

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🏑The death of the centre bully, 50 years ago
🧢Veryan Pappin’s GB cap presentation
🏆The first national indoor hockey championship
🤩Record varsity hockey score, 50 years ago
🎤Renewed progress on our oral history project

26/03/2026

Obituary of John Cadman, one of the most influential and pioneering figures in the history of English hockey ❤️

John was an England and Great Britain international player who was later appointed National Coach by the Hockey Association – the first in the world to be employed in a national director of coaching role.

John leaves behind an extraordinary legacy: as an international player of distinction; as a global pioneer in coach education; as an author whose work shaped learning for decades; and as a beloved mentor, colleague and friend. English hockey and the international game are profoundly different because of him.

Click through to discover the transformative impact John had on hockey and details of the Thanksgiving Service.
👉 https://hockeymuseum.org/john-cadman-1934-2026-obituary

23/03/2026

Delighted to host Woking Philatelic Society at the Museum this evening to share the of on ! The Museum has the world’s largest collection of hockey stamps and covers!

13/03/2026

Obituary of Mon Pickersgill, former President of the North Territory, fifteenth and final President of the All England Women's Hockey Association and the first President of the combined (men's, women's and mixed) English Hockey Association ❤️👇
https://hockeymuseum.org/monica-pickersgill-1933-2026-obituary

12/03/2026

We are saddened to share news of the death of John Cadman at the age of 91.

John was a distinguished England international player and a pioneering figure in the development of modern English coaching. He represented both England and Great Britain, earning 14 England caps and 13 GB caps, and competed as a centre forward at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He played county and club hockey across Essex, Kent, Suffolk and beyond.

After introducing hockey as Master in Charge of PE at Friends’ School in 1960, he became the Hockey Association’s first National Coach in 1969, transforming English hockey by professionalising coaching structures and championing competitive leagues that elevated the sport from grassroots to elite level. Widely regarded as the “father of coach education” in the UK, Cadman shaped generations of players and coaches, and authored multiple influential books.

He will be remembered as kind man, generous with his time, as a formidable player of the amateur era and a visionary whose influence permanently changed the landscape of British hockey.

A fuller obituary will follow on The Hockey Museum website.

02/03/2026

The Hockey Museum is saddened to report the death of Monica (Mon) Pickergill who died at her care home in Wakefield on Saturday 28 February.

Mon was elected as the fifteenth and final President of the All England Women’s Hockey Association (AEWHA) in 1992, with a mandate to deliver the centenary celebrations in 1995 and to steer the AEWHA towards a new joint association with the English men’s Hockey Association (HA). The merger of two such long-standing, independent Associations was never going to be easy, but Mon emerged as one of the most influential and significant figures involved in the process, successfully delivering the joint association in 1997. She then led the new English Hockey Association (EHA) as its first President for a full three-year term.

In December 2022, Mon was deservedly presented with the England Hockey (EH) Lifetime Achievement Award by the then President, Mike Stoddard (pictured).

A full obituary will be published in due course. Funeral details will be published when available.

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