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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 15:02:04 GMT
Have stumbled across a website showing British Newspaper Archives. It is apparent that a certain amount of translation has already taken place from old faded and/or smudged print, but here is one example from 1949, soon after our league was formed:
There are two blocks available, one mentioning bar billiards activity from 1940 spread over a wider area, and one mentioning the formation of HDBBL in 1949, with some of the founder members.
I will add them on here - but first need to do some text editing !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 18:49:40 GMT
1940, warts and all : So, evidence of pre-war organised bar billiards activity in Sussex with honourable mention for the following venues: Horsham Rural: Crown, Horsham; Sussex Oak, Warnham; Blacksmiths Arms, Shipley; Crown, Alfold; Onslow Arms, Loxwood. Further afield: Black Lion, Patcham; Royal Oak, (?)*; Thomas 'A Becket, Worthing; Bull, Goring-by-Sea.* could be the one at North Bersted, now known as the Pink Pub ? (other candidates include the one at Crawley Down and the one at Jacobs Post)Bar billiards receives no further mentions at all throughout the 1940's - until the formation of HDBBL in 1949. It is conceivable, therefore, that such a trivial pursuit was cast aside in consideration of the other more pressing matter of sheer survival during WWII.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 23:19:27 GMT
1949
Conclusions: 1. Horsham League formed in September 1949. 2. Founder member teams: Nelson, Horse & Groom, Plough, Rising Sun, Queens Head, Crown, Star, Hornbrook, White Hart. 3. It seems that to begin with all the teams – apart from the Plough - were based in Horsham itself, with the Crown Inn being the one in the Carfax rather than the one at Alfold. 4. The White Hart would be the one demolished where Smith and Western now stands, and both the Star and the Rising Sun would be the original pubs replaced by later buildings in the early 1960’s.
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