Engelsk Bar Billiard

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Engelsk Bar Billiard

ENGLISH BAR BILLIARD / ENGELSK BAR BILLIARD
• Mekanisk timer
• Møntindkast til en gammel 5KR’s mønt, men dette kan ændres.
• Klædet er nyligt blevet udskiftet med “Eurospeed Bluegreen 160” fra Søren Søgaard A/S og står som nyt.
• Bordet størrelse 186x96x86 gør at det ikke tager så meget plads som andre former for billiard, da spillet kun foregår fra den en ende af bordet.
• Vægt: ca. 100Kg. (Skifferplade)

History:
The story behind the English Bar Billiard
The similarity of Bar Billiards with Bagatelle, a game that was very popular for more than a century after 1770 is so evident that it seems highly likely that Bar Billiards is a derivative of Bagatelle via some lineage but that lineage is, at present, unknown. For more information on this earlier game, please visit the separate page on the history of Bagatelle. Beyond that assumed and mysterious connection, it isn't known how Bar Billiards originated but in the early 1930s an Englishman called David Gill observed a game called Russian Billiards (Billiard Russe) being played in Belgium. A Russian link is therefore a possibility but it seems more likely that the game was named so as to sound slightly exotic to the ears of West Europeans at the time (in the same way as for Chinese Checkers and Polish Draughts).
Gill convinced the English manufacturer Jelkes (no longer trading) to make a version of the game which he called Bar Billiards. Pubs seemed keen to buy tables and other manufacturers soon got in on the act, notably Sams Brothers (later Sams Atlas who were bought by Greys of Cambridge who then went out of business). It is still possible to obtain reconditioned versions of these lovely old Bar Billiards tables.