Billiard Collection

Playing billiards
Billiards, Ives, 42nd Street. Billiardist Morningstar shooting pool at Ives Billiards, 42nd Street, N.Y

Men playing billiards in a club. Date: circa 1910s

Billiard Room, Union Jack Club, Lambeth, London
View of the Billiard Room at the Union Jack Club, Waterloo Road, Lambeth, London. The club opened in 1907 to cater for members and ex-members of the armed forces. Date: circa 1910s

Playing billiards
Billiardists. Billiardist Morningstar standing at a pool table, preparing to hit a ball with his cue

Playing billiards
W. Hoppe. Billiardist William F. Hoppe standing at a pool table, preparing to hit a ball with his cue

Playing billiards
W. Hoppe. Billiardist William F. Hoppe standing at a pool table, preparing to hit a ball with his cue

Playing billiards
Mrs. Frances Hoppe & Her Son Willie. Mrs. Frances Hoppe playing billiards with her son Willie (William F. Hoppe) in a billiard room with seated spectators watching

Two cats playing billiards on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Crokett - Le Jongleur Humoriste
Poster for Crokett - Le Jongleur Humoriste (The Juggler Comedian)

Billiards champion with trophy
Billiards champion with the trophy he has won. Date: circa 1910s

The billiard monarchs, contestants in the grand national bil

India - Deolali - British Garrison
British Garrison at Deolali (Devlali), in Nashik District in the state of Maharashtra, India - British soldiers and Officers outside the Billiard Room

Ye Olde Bull and Bell Pub, Ropemaker Street, London, EC2. Proprietor - Walter Edwin Hallpike. Destroyed in the Blitz, circa 1941. Date: circa 1938

Snooker Hall, early 1900s

Advert, Thurston & Co Ltd, Billiard Table Makers, London
Advert, Thurston & Co Ltd, Billiard Table Makers, Leicester Square, London Date: 1907

Advert, Burroughes & Watts Billiard Table Manufacturers
Advert, Burroughes & Watts Ltd, Billiard Table Manufacturers, Soho Square, London. Date: 1902

Riley's Billiard Tables, available in different sizes for private homes in mahogany wood. Date: 1904

Queen Alexandra and her sister the Dowager Empress Marie of Russia playing billiards in 1907 at their home, the Villa Hvidore near Copenhagen. Date: 1907

Huntsman jumping a fence and interfering with
Huntsman jumping a fence on an old nag and interfering with the pack of hounds. Facey Romford irritating Jonathan Lotherington during a hunt. Romford disturbs the dignity of his Hunt

Sketches by Bryan de Grineau of Fettes College, Edinburgh. The top picture shows the study rooms in Kimmerghame House leading off from a central common room with armchairs, piano and billiard table

Poster, Peugeot cars, marvellous suspension

Imperial Billiard Hall, Deansgate, Bolton, Lancashire, with eleven full-size tables by E J Riley Ltd, Accrington. Date: circa 1910s

Rileys Billiard Tables, available for private houses and public institutions in portable form or dining table combined. Date: 1903

A workman smoothing the surface of the slate bed of a billiard table at a factory in Accrington, Lancashire, England. He wears a respirator mask to protect from the dust. Date: 1950s

Tom Newman - English professional player
Tom Newman (1894-1943) - English professional player of English billiards and snooker. He was born Thomas Edgar Pratt in Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire. Date: 1935

Early Billiards. Date: 1710

ADVERT. BILLIARD TABLE
Advertisement for Rileys combine billiard and dining room table Date: circa 1900

C19 BILLIARD PLAYER
A moustachioed chap prepares to play a shot. Date: 19th century

BILLIARD PLAYER. 1842
A billiard player leans on the table with his cue Date: 1842

Insert
Trade card published by Maple & Co. Ltd. between c.1885 and 1895. Inserted into the catalogue, advertising a carved mahogany roulette, card and games table and the game, Billiard Nicolas

Ukraine - Odessa - Fanconi Coffee House and Billiard Hall. Founded in 1872 and still (very much) in business (see Tripadvisor !!!). Date: 1903

Billiard player J. Graham Symes in khaki, WW1
The amateur billiard champion, Lieutenant J. Graham Symes with his opponent Mr E. S. Bourne, who he beat to retain his title at Ormes Hall in February 1918. Date: 1918

Patients playing bar billiards, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing three patients, two in dressing gown and pyjamas, one in shirt and trousers, playing bar billiards in a rest room

Buildings in Valparaiso, Chile, South America, including a billiard hall and a warehouse. Date: circa 1910

Spain and Portugal - Castle Sitting Room - Large room, Billiard table, furniture, large chandelier. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain. Date: circa 1900

VAD Hospital stores, Quex House
The Billiard Room of Quex House was used as the Hospital Stores during the War. Two VAD nurses are seated either side of a table. One is sewing, the other is writing

Place de la Gare - Bizerte, Tunisia, North Africa - The Northernmost city in Africa. Date: circa 1910s

Two cats on a cutout Christmas card, enjoying a game of billiards. Date: circa 1890s

Edwardian casual group photograph
The man in the picture is Ernest Battersby, responsible for the photograph. May is on the left - she is May Battersby, sister in law to Ernest Battersby in the foreground

Two men on a seat in what is kown to be the Billiard Room of Strathclyde, Offerton Lane, Stockport, home of the photographer Ernest Battersby, seen here on the right. Date: 1902

Three men in billiard room at Strathclyde, Offerton Lane, Stockport home of William Battersby (seated, centre). The other two are unknown Date: 1913

The Little Theatre as a soldiers clubhouse, WW1
A page from The Sphere, reporting on how the Little Theatre, in the Haymarket, London (now the Theatre Royal, Haymarket) temporarily converted to become a soldiers clubhouse during the First World

Billiard room, hotel in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
Billiard room in the Grand Hotel Chateau Bellevue, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland

Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: early 20th century

Bonzo runs through! by George Studdy
Bonzo runs through! He chases a mouse onto the billiard table, the mouse gets caught in a pocket, and Bonzo manages to ruin the green baize. Date: 1924

Boring Ivory Tusks
" From jungle to dressing table." Boring ivory elephant tusks, for making into brush handles, billiard balls and other beautiful objects for ladies dressing tables. Date: February 1933

American author Mark Twain
American author and humorist Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) - smoking his inseparable corn-cob pipe and holding a billiard cue - caricature by Phil May. Date: 1892

Billiards Illustrated - A Little Too Fine
A fisherman fly fishing in a Scottish Loch is thwarted in his attempts to land a sprightly salmon by his choice of fishing line, which appears to be far too thin

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