They doffed their bowler hats and swirled their walking canes to salute the legendary Charlie Chaplin who made Waterville his second home during his long off-screen life.

A battered bowler hat from the James Bond film Goldfinger has been valued at up to £30,000 on the Antiques Roadshow.

By the 1950s, however, the bowler had become what it had never been up to then – a badge of class – when the working classes began to abandon hat-wearing, leaving stockbrokers and others ...

Ireland all-rounder Curtis Campher made cricketing history on Thursday, becoming the first male professional cricketer to ...

In Ireland, local communities bade farewell to emigrants they would never see again by holding an “American wake,” an ...

The hat eventually became better known as the bowler, named after its constructor, though it has a variety of other names, including the billycock and bob hat.

Veteran frontman Suggs watched as a crowd of bowler-hatted “geezers” strode past the window of his hotel - and thought they were marching to celebrate his band Madness in Belfast to play a gig ...

A MYSTERY man in a bowler hat has sparked rumours he is Banksy after he was spotted watching builders tear down the artist’s latest work. A group of builders today claimed Banksy hi… ...

'For me, it begins with a bowler hat' – Irish author John Connolly on his lifelong love of Laurel & Hardy and the real story behind the duo As new biopic 'Stan & Ollie' hits cinemas, Irish ...

A BATTERED bowler hat from Bond movie Goldfinger has been valued at £30,000. The steel-rimmed headgear doubled as a weapon for sinister assassin Oddjob. The current owner told BBC’s Antiques ...

Bowled over by the history of a hat beloved by Orangemen It's the time of year when the bowler hat makes its annual appearance at Orange demonstrations. But did you know that, in South America, it ...

I THINK the time has come to put on record the truth regarding the legendary bowler hat belonging to John Rannie of John Brown's Yard, which R Johnston (Letters, Decmber 20) believed to be ...