New Bar Billiards History Website

[barbelman]

I came across this 'new' (2018) website today and it is truly fascinating.  It has a history of all the major British table manufacturers and the people involved.
There is a really good page about Bar Billiards Ltd of Ascot.

www.snookerheritage.co.uk/company-histories/bar-billiards-ltd/

This takes you to the BB Ltd page but there are many more on the links to the left of the article.

Have a look!!

Tony

[Chris_Sav]

Five years ago already! I knew of the proposed meeting and talked to Ivor Champion about the game's history.


Our views were diametrically opposed as I agreed David Gill started the Jelks lineage, but not that they were the first tables in the UK. I have always believed East Anglian narrow tables (same slates as Billard Russe) predated the standard width ones. Why else would Sams have made both widths when they copied the Jelks configuration? There are earlier narrow tables about than the Sams variety and Sams were in Hoddesden, so in a position to see both. The 1934 story does not explain snookerette (see link) either who were trading around then.