A Fives Song (1902)
Currently unable to get on court, a group of musical Fives players - led by Nic Walker - have turned their gloved hand instead to resurrecting "A Fives Song", composed in 1902 but incomprehensibly neglected ever since.
Fives on Test Match Special
14/08/20: Eton Fives featured on today's Test Match Special broadcast with Phil Tufnell (Old Cholmeleian) and Jonathan Agnew (Old Uppinghamian) explaining the game to Michael Vaughan and extolling its virtues during a break for bad light.
Michael Portillo Plays Fives At Malay College
20/02/20: Filmed last year, the episode of Michael Portillo's "Great Asian Railway Journeys" featuring Eton Fives at Malay College aired on the BBC last weekend.
Nether Say Nether Again...
Tom Griffiths reports:
16/12/19: Benjamin (15), James (13), Joshua (9) and dad Tom Griffiths (age unspecified) have invented Nether Fives, a version of Eton Fives.
The Oldest Fives Film Footage?
John Reynolds reports:
02/12/19: This dates from 1937, and is of Fives being played at the Institut Montana in Zugerberg in Switzerland.
The Hamburg Fives Experience
John Reynolds reports:
12/11/19: The temporary fives court in Hamburg has hosted a tournament for 22 players, won by English visitor Karen Hird and her Australian neophyte partner Harry Thring.
Fives As Art In Germany
John Reynolds reports:
26/09/19: Artists in Germany have created a life-size and functional but temporary Eton Fives court for an exhibition.
Paume Truths From Abroad
16/08/19: The second weekend in August means the World Cup of Paume Artignoscaise in the South of France and the regular team of Eton Fives players returned last weekend to take part for a third successive year.
The Latest Trend In Stag Dos
08/04/19: Since Bernard Montgomery - later Field Marshal Earl Montgomery of Alamein - proposed to his future wife in the courts at Charterhouse in 1927, the links between Fives courts and matrimony have been few and far between.
1001 Different Ways To Use A Fives Court
17/12/18: Eton Fives courts have been used for all sorts of things over the years, but possibly never before as the backdrop to a music video. CLICK HERE to see the video for the new single "Matter" by the London band Leif Erikson, filmed on the courts at Westway...