This picture, dating from 1797, has been unearthed by Swedish writers Carl Giden and Patrick Houda, who believe it to be the earliest known depiction of a game of hockey. It shows two skaters in the winter of 1796, and the writers have identified its location as near Kew Observatory. The boy on the right is sitting on Isleworth Ait. The illustration was revealed by an antiquarian bookseller in Maine and is reproduced in the writers' encyclopaedic history of hockey. The word "hockey", they say, had been in use for about 50 years by this time, replacing its previous name, bandy ball. The puck used was a bung, a plug for a barrel. See full story
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