We used to play Chicago-style "polo" on bicycles in the Gray School gravel schoolyard, using croquet mallets and balls. And it was by no means the first time I was misspoken. Leaning over the ...

STRAIGHT SHOOTER: Wood Mallets owner George Wood of Otane has carved a top-end global niche with polo and croquet mallets. PHOTO/DUNCAN BROWN GEORGE Wood had 28 summers in a row spending New Zealand ...

Stately homes with perfect lawns, picnics or a fanciful scene from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland may spring to mind at the mention of croquet; a shabby industrial estate in Edenbridge, Kent, ...