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Post by taffy on Dec 4, 2020 20:45:30 GMT
Sad to report that The tables have been removed at the King William IV, Histon. CB24 9EP. Dining tables cited. This was a dual use 3 and 4 pin pub.
Also and worst of all is the table at The White Horse in Swavesey (CB24 5QG) This has been a stalwart 3-pin table for years which has again been removed for dining tables even though there was use in better times two nights a week for 40 weeks of the year. I'll leave Lee to mention just what an impact this will have.
In the meantime I've proposed that something like a 3-pin league one side of Christmas and a 4-pin league on the other side be considered. packing play into 3+ months for each version of the game. This will be looked at after Christmas. Looking at something happening in September at the earliest.
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Post by taffy on Nov 27, 2020 20:49:23 GMT
Euro Hostel, Osmosis - Glasgee? yes that one Taffy
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Post by taffy on Nov 27, 2020 19:07:29 GMT
Can you clarify which ones we can safely remove, please, Taffy ? the bon accord in glasgow, the one at the youth centre and the cowdenbeath table. all gone. cheers Taffy
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Post by taffy on Nov 26, 2020 11:14:40 GMT
I have had a word with 'The Bell' at Murrow. The landlord Alan took over in Januaru 2018 from 'Mark' and he brought the table back in the pub. As the table belongs to the players it will certainly be used again in the pub or shifted to one that will take them and their table. Alan closed the pub on March 23rd and has given Elgoods the problem of re-opening it after Covid. So to me, The Bell at Murrow is still in it.
I'm awaiting a reply from Wenn's Chop and Ale House.
wrong place but; I called that Cowdenbeath pub and the two in Glasgow last year, I was on Bute for NYE last year and tried about 6 pubs up there that were listed. none of them had a table but other than the Cowdenbeath pub and the Bon Accord I can't recall which ones. Those two don't have tables. if they were on the (mid/south) west coast though, I asked them and they didn't have a table.
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Post by taffy on Nov 25, 2020 19:28:38 GMT
A leak from a palace source reveals that there is a bar billiards table here: SANDRINGHAM BOWLS CLUB, WEST NEWTON, KINGS LYNN, NORFOLK PE31 6AY
"The Sandringham Bowls Club is part of the Sandringham Social club at West Newton which offers members a bar, social events such as regular bingo evenings, Sea Food Night, Barbecues, a car rally, plus darts, dominoes, bar billiards, snooker etc."
Not true I'm afraid Tommo. I've asked...there isn't one there. cheers Taffy
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Post by taffy on Nov 21, 2020 9:53:04 GMT
Hi Tommo
The missing sock is just 800 yards from the White Swan at Stow-cum-Quy, i would instantly install a 'bitter rivalry' which is best served cold of course if I can get the keys! Just had a word with him and he's very interested in a table....
King Street Run, 86 King Street, Cambridge CB1 1LN = this is a 4-pin pub
Earl Of Beaconsfield, 133 Mill Road, Romsey Town, CB1 3AA = this is a 4-pin pub
Empress, 72 Thoday Street, Cambridge CB1 3AX = this is a 4-pin pub
Railway Tavern, Great Shelford, Cambs CB2 5LR = no table
Leckhampton Bar, Leckhampton House, Corpus Christi Mcr, 37 Grange Road, Cambridge CB3 9BJ = not sure
The Townhouse Pub, Market Street, Ely, Cambs CB7 4LS = table removed a year ago
Six Mile Bottom Ssc, Brinckley Road, Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket CB8 0UN = open only two days per week (Sat and Sun)
Three Horseshoes Pub (Formerly The Longbow), 2 Church Street, Stapleford, Cambridge, CB22 5DS = table removed a year ago
King William IV, 8 Church Street, Histon, Cambs CB24 9EP = this is a 4-pin pub. Installed as a 3-pin but remarked as a 4 with the landlady keeping 4 on the table.
White Swan, 9 Main St, Stow Cum Quy, Cambridge CB25 9AB = this is a 4-pin pub
Missing Sock (formerly the Prince Albert), Finders Corner, Newmarket Road, Stow-Cum-Quy, Cambs CB25 9AQ = no table for 3 years
Ale Taster (Formerly Hog & Partridge) Russell St, St Neots, Huntingdon, Cambs PE19 1BA
Ye Olde Sun, 11 Huntingdon Street, St Neots, Cambs PE19 1BL
Floods Tavern, St Ives, Huntingdon, Cambs PE27 5BX = table removed 3 years ago.
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Post by taffy on Nov 20, 2020 19:20:46 GMT
No, not me Tommo, I did ask them two years ago. how do you 'see' that these places have a table? I put one in the White Horse at Oakington but I think you know that? also, whenever I've been in the King Bill Histon it has had 4-pins on the table. some bugger slipped another one on there.....
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Post by taffy on Sept 17, 2020 9:52:04 GMT
Brilliant! Can I offer this to anyone? what is the best way to wrap it and send it?
and thanks to the guy that did it........
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Post by taffy on Sept 25, 2019 11:40:05 GMT
Jim Wilson Bot CSSC v Ally 'La-deh-Da' Stansfield-Prewett = Home win (Ally's first 3-pin game) Andrew Knibbs Carp Arms v Alfie Noakes = Home win (Alfie had played 3-pin before once) Paul Tolkein WH Milton v Andy Pollard = Away win (Andy hadn't played 3-pin before) Malcolm Wright Bot CSSC v Taffy Lloyd = away win (malcolm lost 3,400 on the last ball. Taffy lost 970, still had a handy 1,650 though) Lee Mason (C) WH Milton v Paul Mason = Home win (a great 14,50 from Paul who only had his 10th game of any BB and his first of 3-pin) player X v Andy Pollard again = home win (extra player arrived, back in went our best player; Andy lost by 1,200 which was also the score of the break he lost...would have been tight otherwise....)
so 2-4 to the hosts. Played in a great atmosphere with both teams chatting 10 to the dozen all evening.
we join battle again next Monday evening at the Townhouse in Ely. First for us is 4-pin on narrow tables this Saturday and back to wides on Monday with the red and white swopped! we shall be giddy....
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Post by taffy on Sept 25, 2019 8:31:37 GMT
that player list is ancient Steve. presumably the team list as well.
looking forward to it!
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Post by taffy on Sept 20, 2019 13:12:14 GMT
they aren't rimming Sav which is a good sign. what is the actual hole diameter?
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Post by taffy on Sept 16, 2019 9:12:37 GMT
I'm a firm believer in "leagues" as far as pub revenue goes. But nobody seems to blame the lanlords like I'm prepared to. most of them are lazy b***ers! you won't believe how bad the table is at Brancaster Staithe. I had to run across the pub with a 9 iron and the ball still stopped short of the 10 hole.
I wouldn't mind but i was aiming at the 30!!!!
your skittle alley has what I call "engagement" with the public and screams "do something!!! NOW!!!!". but a bar billiards table needs a brush and a hoover, a little oil, the coin mechanism looking at, a polish, a PROPER polish to get rid of sweaty hands. My experience ias that only half of the landlords get it.
certainly, young managers don't and women don't identify with these contraptions either. a BB table crosses the line into 'mechanical'.
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Post by taffy on Sept 15, 2019 20:28:57 GMT
this is the crux of it.
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Post by taffy on Sept 15, 2019 10:18:16 GMT
The Kings Arms, Blakeney - gone. Kings Head, Holt - gone. The Pigs at Melton Constable - gone. The Green Man at Lt Snoring, - gone. All removed from the map, Taff could you include a post code on any changes please? that's how I find them on the map. Just so happens I'm familiar with that area. will do Sav. The Hill House Inn, Happisburgh - NR12 0PW - table removed a log time ago (BTW, they all said 'a long time ago') NR10 4JJ The kings Arms, Reepham - NR10 4JJ - no table. I have conquered a little of essex Tommo, do you recall late last year i checked out all the south-west suffolk and east essex area? I wwas surprised all 4 pubs no longer hold a table. i'd talked with Phil and Carl (seperately) about 'doing something'. but all 4.....jesus!!! trying to remain positive, maybe an effort should be made to go to Thorpe Market and Brancaster Staithe and at least "put a marker down". Taffy
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Post by taffy on Sept 13, 2019 11:02:34 GMT
I'm afraid this list will have to be decimated: The Kings Arms, Blakeney - gone. Kings Head, Holt - gone. The Pigs at Melton Constable - gone. The Green Man at Lt Snoring, - gone.
more to follow I'm afraid as I called these 4 and left messages for many others.
The landlord at the Green man Inn at Lt. Snoring though seems mad keen to have one. Anyone else supply him with one? I'm not keen to go that far although I have offered him one.
Taffy
PS, Gunton Arms at Thorpe Market just confirmed that they still have a table.
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Post by taffy on Sept 11, 2019 19:18:18 GMT
the pub at Brancaster Staithe White Horse then perhaps can be in the general list of Norfolk pubs then Tommo? it isn't anywhere near the Gedney League either. possibly put it with yer Reephams etc.
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Post by taffy on Sept 10, 2019 7:54:21 GMT
hey Tommo one update above and do you recall i found a table at the White Horse in Brancaster Staithe last year? 4-pin non-league.
It would be nice to touch-base with these lads again. I went in the Kings Arms during the National CAMRA Beer Festival which was held for the third and last time in Norwich in the Spring and i got stuffed by a local. a proper hiding. I can't understand why i play so badly after 5 hours at a Beer festival....I really can't!
But the stuffer told the stuffee that they weren't aware of any regs for the East Anglian Open etc and would gladly enter.
cheers
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Post by taffy on Sept 6, 2019 14:12:12 GMT
Hi Sav
great job so far! I say if you want rings to look different to all before you and we are talking Green cloth or maybe a mouve/purple...then the obvious matching little colour would be I'd have thought; yellow!
seems like we are agreed though that the holes at just shy of 63mm you said; ".....holes are going to need to be close on 63mm" I'd said; ".....with a modern cloth about 62.6-62.8mm"
certainly for me, it felt like a nice firm drive and not going anywhere.
well done!
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Post by taffy on Sept 5, 2019 14:49:29 GMT
Sounds good Alan but,,,, The 4x4 is on Saturday the 28th saturdays for drinkin, sundays for selling!
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Post by taffy on Sept 5, 2019 9:46:44 GMT
Quote; If any TEAM is short of a player on the day or prior I will be available to play , i mistakenly thought someone had put my name down but they had had not . So i am available as reserve for ANY team that is short of a player , Thanks Alan
Hello Alan You are down Alan. I just haven't updated Dave on the subject. i threw the landlord of a pub and some players down on paper because if you recall we thought the 12 places would be gone in minutes when the entry forms came out. yes, I can be said to have been like Ze Germans by Ze pool! I resemble that remark!
So I can tell Dave now (as I did in a phone chat last night) 3. Cambridge - Matt Barnett, Ben Dobson, and then Alan Mee, Alison Prewett-Stansfield
Dave is amenable to last minute changes. I am not sure about the first two Dave as i can't get a straight answer but we will fulfil our place at the 4x4.
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Post by taffy on Sept 2, 2019 8:06:37 GMT
visited 'Ye olde sun' and the 'Ale Taster' yesterday for a game.
Firstly 'Ye Olde Sun'. The worst table i've ever played on. Its an old Jelks. The balls died. they all rolled one way. the legs wobbled. the leather was torn. no noise abatment whatsoever. one cue. old £1 coins, mine jammed. no nuts on the timer arm so I had a 5 minute game. The 'D' had curled up that hard that a ball could only be placed on the edge of the r/h half. I've never seen mushrooms like these in my life; they had a 'cap' about 4" across, a stem only about 10mm wide. just pulling the handle (remember the wobbly legs?) knocked all 3 down. no marking for the 'spot' or for the pins themselves. it had massive numbers on a sticker along the front exclaiming that you'd just scored '30' with 'red; 60' written above it and all the others.
I went back to the bar presuming I wouldn't be able to engage the landlord and yes he was fairly ambivelant, I gave him some advice (included the mention of a grenade). Job for Alan Turner if ever I saw it. He also said the one thing you fear; that there was no problem with it because he has a group that use it every Saturday; so no chance of him being enlightened to his wrongful ways. when i mentioned the roll of the table he said that they have to drag the table aaround a lot and they never had time to set it up. as he finished saying it he had to peer over the bar to see me because i was onmy knees sobbing uncontrollably....I couldn't listen to anymore!
The 'Ale Taster' is just 200m away down Russell Street. I was NOT looking forward to this!!! it's a Supreme and the landlord of Ye Olde Sun had warned me that "he keeps stuff on the table". Oh-bloody-dear I thought!!!
walked in. table was immaculate and in a prominent position right near the bar. one good cue, played a local over 2 legs and it was a thoroughly decent table. cloth was a little slow, could do with an iron but all in all it was lovely. Great landlord, nice range of real ales and worth a visit. got a good long game too! There's no cloth on the runners so when I change the cloth on my table soon, i will send him my old one and some rubber/sponge for the footboard.
I was thinking of using a pub halfway between ourslves and Wellingborough for a 'halfway house' and this would do it well. I can't believe I just said that about a Supreme....but i did!!!
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Post by taffy on Aug 29, 2019 11:19:20 GMT
yes, we'll see him there. Don't let Dave know - he'll be calling it the world championships before you can shout 'Toots & Maytals'!!!!!
I did read in 2013 that there were just 11 teams. if you watch those two videos on youtube, they had a tournament sponsored and were hoping to do BIG things with the game.....
what a sad fall from grace!
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Post by taffy on Aug 27, 2019 13:41:41 GMT
I have been in touch and met up up with Richard Cox, who was the Jamaican skittles singles champion in 1981. He's been living over here for some time and is going to join my team in the Redhill league. I had a game with him. Their rules of skittles is very similar rules to the 'proper' 4 pin played on narrow tables. He had plenty of shots to show me, in his first attempt at the game of 3 pin he went off with 1800 including getting the break and one up successfully several times in a row. He is keen to get involved and wants to beat the best players in the country, well he will have a chance as he is coming up to the bucks open tomorrow after a last minute dropout! How is Richard getting on Jelly? does he have any contact with the ols game back in Jamaica? I keep trying to find a contact down there if you can help me? taffy
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Post by taffy on Aug 27, 2019 8:01:48 GMT
Jeremy Fry beat Jeff Bridges in the final. I scored it. A very good, high scoring game befitting two finalists. Thin margins in so many games. I scored 10 games in the end and i didn't do the most!
Ally and i were the cannon fodder for this one! I need to change my style of play. I'm trying to flush balls off the back and it just isn't working.
a great day out. well done to everyone involved in putting it on.....
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Post by taffy on Aug 25, 2019 9:27:31 GMT
Gentlemen (and ladies) START. YOUR. ENGINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by taffy on Aug 23, 2019 8:14:07 GMT
not in the USA for sure. BTW, there used to be a link to a bar in NY or NY State and it had a table. so I don't know why our American didn't find that one?
The other 998 were used as firewood at a guess....the Americans could afford that much that they could not only afford to buy them but as my Mum would say; they could also afford to throw them away too!
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Post by taffy on Aug 22, 2019 10:14:03 GMT
crazy
I've a best kept secret about Bar Billiards tables. I know where there are 30 going for £50 each. But Tommo, if i told ya, I'd have to kill ya!!!!
If only someone would make the timers again. (1 in 3 have the timers missing)
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Post by taffy on Aug 21, 2019 8:41:27 GMT
he's been buying HARD for 6-8 months Tommo. When i bought my two jelks last year, he was buying all the Jelks in between the two. He lost the Crowborough one to me and then got the next two.
he's a serious buyer Tommo!
anyway, there's a delightful story of someone walking in every Grand national winner for 20 years. he would walk ahead of the nose of the horse and was Feted along with the winning Jockey. It got pointed out on BBC's midweek 'Sportsnight' by David Colerman and the man never turned up the next year!
So now we're onto him - we'll soon know who he is!
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Post by taffy on Aug 19, 2019 18:41:46 GMT
yes but its in our general interest to find out who he is. if the tables are going abroad then that is NOT good news!
pretty much 50% of 'proper' tables are going to him at the moment. someone here must have sold a table to him surely?
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Post by taffy on Aug 19, 2019 12:58:17 GMT
Nearly all the tables on ebay are presently being bought by someone with the codename 0***2. If the tables all end up being used in the Uk in houses or pubs - that's fine but does anyone know who it is and what he is doing with the tables?
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