British Open Squash Championships British Open Squash Championships The British Open Squash Championships is the oldest and most established tournament in the game of squash. It is widely considered to be one of the two most prestigious tournaments in the game, alongside the World Open (prior to the establishment of the World Open in the 1970s, the British Open was generally considered to be the "de facto" world championship of the sport.) The British Open Squash Championships are now often referred to as being the ""Wimbledon of Squash"". While there had been a professional men's championship for some years, the 'open' men's championship (for
Old Nichol the Nichol. The Old Nichol inspired a number of slum fiction novels. The “evil” reputation of the Old Nichol owed a lot to Arthur Morrison’s fictionalised account of it in "A Child of the Jago", and to sensational articles by Reverend Osborne Jay of Holy Trinity Church, known as Father Jay, on whom Morrison relied for information. The novel became so popular that the "Jago" became an interchangeable name for the Old Nichol. Father Jay also appeared as "Father Ranald" in L. T. Meade's 1895 novel "A Princess of the Gutter", with the "gutter" being the Old Nichol. Old Nichol