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Older players were marvellous workers of a cueball, relying on side and topspin to get into position. On the other side I saw the red signal-lamps of a railway. It has long since been demolished but you can still see part of the garden, which is now a small park on the corner by the traffic lights, and some of the old garden wall along Croydon Road. Patsy Meehan recalls a slate on the wall where you put your initials when there was a queue. Other games like Golf, Skittles and Lives were also useful in cutting the queue. Just swing by the front desk, and we’ll point you to the best places to play these games and maybe even share a few tips to help you get started. It was 3d a game when John Hanna started in the fifties. John Hanna's father played both table tennis and tennis and even won the table tennis County Championship. The older members would probably have featured in county finals had the tournament been around pre-1975. Current senior members still recall memorable shots played over thirty years ago and the styles of the competitors then. The fact that the club is still going strong fifty years after its foundation is a fitting tribute to the man.

However, the whacking mentality still pervades and it is refreshing to see young Johnny Connors of Letterkenny stroking the ball around the table with a minimum of force and yet compiling big breaks. Later Johnny McHugh would write your name in a book and you waited until your turn came. I was not surprised, therefore, on Monday night when a Mr. Latimer, a very fashionably dressed young man, came up to my rooms and asked me to accompany him in a cab which was waiting at the door. It was almost dark before we found ourselves in Pall Mall, at the rooms of Mr. Melas. He rented out half of the building to the Pitt Club, and the other half to Orme's Billiards Rooms. We encourage you not to miss out on the chance to visit ANT Billiards. He earns his living partly as interpreter in the law courts and partly by acting as guide to any wealthy Orientals who may visit the Northumberland Avenue hotels. Hafez, Shamoon (8 May 2018). "World Championship: Mark Williams says third title is unbelievable". A: The club was inaugurated in 1888. Today we are 110 years old. It is certain that higher breaks were recorded in the club in the past twenty years than had been the case previously.

Bratt's Club - John Beaver's club in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh; Charles Ryder’s club in " Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh; Colonel Charles Russell's club in two of the first three novels by William Haggard. John Hanna, Packie Hanna and Jack Keeney recall playing around the foundations of the Water Street venue when it was being built. Other co-founders of the snooker club were John Mullin, Tommy McCormack, Phil Timony, Kevin Britton and Jim Thomas. Finally, to just the Hampton RSL in 2023 when the membership of the 8 ball section of the club was reduced to zero. The annual membership fee was half a crown in the mid-fifties and £1 per family. Ten shillings was the annual membership fee in the early fifties with clocks in operation. Badminton was a later addition to the clubrooms and it also had a good membership. This suggests that the clubrooms were completed sometime in the winter of 1951. My thanks to Patricia McCalliog for locating this information from her father's records. The clubrooms were opened and blessed one Sunday after Mass in 1952 by Canon McMullin and Fr. The first chairman was Canon Patrick McMullin P.P.

Joe Kelly was joint treasurer with Tom Caldwell (a future Chairman) on that first committee. An energetic committee was formed with Michael McIntyre the first secretary. Canon McMullin's idea was that the boys of the town would play snooker while table tennis (which had a separate committee) would be available to both girls & boys. A proposal to build a snooker venue was put to the local clergy at the time and after protracted discussions, What is a billiards club the parish (administered since 1937 by Canon McMullin) agreed to construct it on the grounds made available with the demolition of the cottages at the bottom of Water St. and Church St. Patsy Meehan remembers playing and attending fairs on the site of the new club. We at Hanami Hotel Danang wholeheartedly recommend Sapphire Billiard Club to anyone seeking quality leisure time. This was sadly not to be and in 2015 Kings closed its doors for the last time. Adam has presided over a turbulent period in the club's history but has never given up on preserving and maintaining its viability and the moves from the defunct Kings to Bentleigh and Eddies Pool Room, then later to Bentleigh and Cue 8 Bar and so to Hampton and Freccia Azzura Club in 2020 after Covid had wreaked its havoc upon the world and the Maccabi Snooker Club, were just a few of his many trials.