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…
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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…
Growth of Pool Tables (part 1)
Players such as Tom Dennis and Joe Davies helped snooker become the popular game it is today. Did you know; the multi million pound industry we see today started [...] Continue Reading…
Birth of snooker tables cont…
In 1876 Neville Chamberlain left the Devon’s to join the Central-India Horse Regiment, but had little time to spend on the game of snooker. The game nearly never developed [...] Continue Reading…
Birth of Snooker
It was whilst playing black pool at the officers mess in Jubbulpore one wet afternoon in 1875 that the game of snooker was born. Officers of the Devonshire Regiment [...] Continue Reading…
Pool Tables and their origins
The game of pyramids was the early ancestor of pool. It was played with a triangle of fifteen red balls. Imagine where the eight ball is placed within a [...] Continue Reading…
Introduction to playing pool
Most people reading this blog would have played pool before or will at least have seen it played , either in pubs and clubs or on television.
Depending on where [...] Continue Reading…