High-quality posters to hang in dorms, bedrooms or offices. Multiple sizes are available. Printed on 185gsm semi gloss poster paper. Additional sizes are available. This capture shows customers enjoying a game of Bar Billiards in an English country pub in the 1980s.Bar billiards is a form of billiards which developed from the French/Belgian game billard russe, with supposedly Russian origins.Bar billiards in its current form started in the UK in the 1930s when an Englishman, David Gill, saw billard russe being played in Belgium and persuaded the Jelkes company of Holloway Road in London to make a similar table. It is a traditional game played in leagues in Sussex, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Kent, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Norfolk and Northamptonshire. These counties comprise the All England Bar Billiards Association. There are also leagues in Guernsey and Jersey. Tables were also made by Sams, Riley, Burroughs & Watts and Clare. The standard “league” tables
Pub Games; Bar Billiards 1976 Poster
