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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 . [ 1 ]
The British and World Marbles Championship has been held at Tinsley Green's pub, The Greyhound, every year since 1932. [ 39 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Traditionally, the marbles-playing season started on Ash Wednesday and lasted until midday on Good Friday : playing after that brought bad luck. [ 41 ]
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The British and World Marbles Championship has been held at Tinsley Green, West Sussex, England, every year since 1932. [17] [18] [19] (Marbles has been played in Tinsley Green and the surrounding area for many centuries: [17] [20] TIME magazine traces its origins to 1588. [21])
The British and World Marbles Championship is said to date back to 1588. [26] The modern competition takes place every Good Friday at the Greyhound pub in Tinsley Green , West Sussex, and has run continuously since 1932, with exceptions for World War II [ 27 ] and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic .
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Articles relating to the Elgin Marbles and their depictions, a collection of sculptures and other parts of the Parthenon (and other sacred and ceremonial structures built on the Acropolis of Athens) taken by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, while Greece was under Ottoman rule, and sent to Britain.