To keep the pool table in good condition it is essential to keep the cloth dry and brushed regularly. When brushing pool tables you should always follow the direction [...] Continue Reading…
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Buying a Pool Table
Many considerations need to be thought about when buying a pool table. The first thought would be whether to buy a coin operated table or free-play. The coin operated [...] Continue Reading…
Snooker Table Transportation (part 3)
The vans and horse carts that the snooker table manufacturers used, where kept in pristine condition. The horses were well looked after by the driver whose job it was [...] Continue Reading…
Snooker Table Transportation (part 2)
The young apprentices would the move onto being given small jobs at the bench such as sawing and planing timber and would have to do this numerous times. Each [...] Continue Reading…
Snooker Table Transportation
Billiards and snooker table manufacturing is an old craft established for over 180 years, and there are still firms in the trade who have been in buisness for over a [...] Continue Reading…
John Bennetts & Co cont…. (by John K Bennett)
The early years of the snooker table company are shrouded in mystery, the fires of 1898 and 1941 having been so destructive that they wiped out all records. We are [...] Continue Reading…
John Bennett & Company By J.k.Bennett
In December 1941 an incendiary device dropped by the Luftwaffe completely destroyed the factory and all the snooker tables at John Bennett’s & Co’s building, 120 Newington Causeway, London, [...] Continue Reading…
The Game (pool tables)
Most of you reading this blog will have played a game of pool before or at least watched a game of pool in a pub or club or on [...] Continue Reading…
Growth of pool tables (part 3)
First we had the game of billiards, then pocket billiards, fifteen ball, continuous pool and straight pool.
As the tactics of pool developed, players started to look for different ways [...] Continue Reading…
Growth of pool tables (part 2)
Following on from my last blog when I am out and about pool table recovering I come across many different designs and manufacturers of pool tables which indicates the [...] Continue Reading…