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Alcocks Billiard Table Manufacturers

Locality: Malvern East, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9571 9333

Address: 203 Darling Road 3145 Malvern East, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.alcocks.com.au/

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24.01.2022 Wonderful performance by China's 20 year old rising star Yan Bingtao to capture the Masters snooker title

24.01.2022 Alcocks Billiards in Art Series: Modernism and the Green Baize by Associate Professor Allison Morehead The Canadian art historian Allison Morehead provides a fascinating and in-depth analysis of representations of green baize in art. Many of the paintings she discusses in her essay have featured in Alcocks Billiards in Art Series https://www.facebook.com/pg/alcocksbilliards/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2193730197506204. The abstract of Modernism and the Green Baize reads: "All ...of the mundane, even offensive qualities of green baize, its resolute materiality, its potential toxicity, its decelerating and silencing effects on items of play, its easiness on players’ eyes, its associations with the bourgeois interior, and with forms of leisure such as billiards and gambling that were increasingly moralized and pathologized, turned up in Kandinsky’s full-throated rejection of green as bourgeois and cow-like". Allison Morehead is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History & Art Conservation at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Professor Morehead specializes in modern French, German, and Scandinavian art, visual, and material culture, emphasizing intersections with the psy-sciences and relays between modernism and the medicalization of life. https://nonsite.org/article/modernism-and-the-green-baize #alcocks #since1853 #billiards #billiardsinartseries #modernismandthegreenbaize #allisonmorehead #nonsitedotorg #melbourne #australia

22.01.2022 Billiard balls were at the centre of a famous breakthrough in forensic science, the first criminal trial in the United Kingdom which resulted in a conviction based on fingerprint evidence. In September 1902 Harry Jackson, aged 42, was convicted of a burglary at the house of Charles Driscoll Tustin, 156 Denmark Hill London, in which a set of billiard balls and other articles were stolen. Tustin's parlourmaid Rose Gilder, who discovered the burglary, observed a thumb mark on th...e sash of a billiard-room window that had been recently painted and brought it to the attention of the investigating police officer. He called in Detective Sergeant Charles Stockley Collins of the Metropolitan Police Fingerprint Bureau, who photographed the print. Comparison against the Bureau's files revealed a match with the fingerprints of Jackson, a known criminal. Prosecutor Richard David Muir, calling DS Collins as an expert witness, was able to convince the Old Bailey jury of the reliability of fingerprint evidence and Harry Jackson was found guilty and sentenced to seven years imprisonment. Today there is no need to nick billiard balls, they are available for online purchase at www.alcocks.com.au. #alcocks #since1853 #billiards #melbourne #australia #forensicscience #harryjackson #charlesdriscolltustin #denmarkhill #london #rosegilder #charlesstockleycollins #scotlandyard #fingerprintbureau #richarddavidmuir #oldbailey #fingerprintevidence

21.01.2022 World Snooker Championship: O'Sullivan to face Wilson in Crucible final after day of incredible drama

21.01.2022 BNZ Heritage, the museum of the Bank of New Zealand, has published these fascinating pictures of a beautiful copper engraved printing plate for "Alcock & Co Limited Billiard Table Builders" custom BNZ cheques. As can be seen on the plate, Alcocks were represented at the time in London, Sydney, Melbourne, Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin. Featured on the plate is a full size billiard table, most likely an Alcock & Co Exhibition Prize model which won gold medals at exhibitions around the world in the 19th century. #alcocks #since1853 #billards #snooker #exhibitionprize #melbourne #australia #bnzheritage

21.01.2022 Alcock & Co antique Standard Model full-size billiard table at Arcoona Manor, Deloraine, Tasmania.

18.01.2022 Alcocks offers for sale a billiards marking board by E J Riley of Accrington, England. The board is very largely in original condition, with the E J Riley trading name still clearly visible on the head piece and the numbering system apparently unchanged from the time it was first made. An interesting feature is that the scoring numbers are protected by a glass front and are entirely detachable from the rear of the board for replacement in case of wear or damage but in the case of this board it has apparently not been necessary to make use of this sensible design feature. https://alcocks.com.au/tab/original-e-j-riley-marking-board #alcocks #since1853 #billiards #snooker #pool #ejriley #markingboard #melbourne #australia

15.01.2022 Tough from here ...

14.01.2022 Bayside private Club in Melbourne, Victoria featuring an 1886 Alcock & Co Canted Leg model full size billiard table in Australian Cedar and Blackwood.

13.01.2022 Three-time Crucible king Mark Selby has beaten world number two Neil Robertson to reach his sixth Betfred World Championship semi-final!

12.01.2022 Alcocks Malvern East showroom will be closed over the Christmas holiday break, closing on Thursday 24th December 2020 at 12:45 PM and re-opening on Monday 4th January 2021. We wish all our customers, suppliers and friends Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. #alcocks #since1853 #billiards #snooker #pool #melbourne #australia

10.01.2022 Neil Robertson now meets Mark Selby in the World Championsip quarter-final. Go Neil!

09.01.2022 Alcocks offers for sale an antique Thomson & Taylor 9ft Family model billiard table - a table like this rarely becomes available for sale. Manufactured during the earliest years of the 20th century using Tasmanian Blackwood throughout, Table No 324 is still in wonderful condition today. It is now re-presented for sale fitted with: New English Trufast moulded rubber cushions New West of England Billiard Cloth by Strachan & Co Cushion Rails re-polished and remainder of sh...ow woodwork touched out and treated as required Slate surface checked and adjusted as required Delivered and installed in the Melbourne Metro Area, ground floor location. Note: The table pictured is a 10ft Family model Table by Thomson and Taylor; Table No 324 is a 9ft version of the same model. #alcocks #since1853 #billiards #snooker #pool #melbourne #australia https://alcocks.com.au/tables/antique-9ft-table-no-324

08.01.2022 Alcocks today pays tribute to Walter Lindrum, generally acknowledged as the greatest billiard player the game has ever seen, who was born on this day in 1898. This informal family photograph from the early 1950s shows Lindrum sitting in his pyjamas on the doorstep of the billiard room at his Kerferd Road Albert Park house with his great-niece Jan Lindrum, daughter of the 1952 World Professional Snooker Champion Horace Lindrum, and the family terrier Minnie. Lindrum's remarkab...Continue reading

04.01.2022 GLYN, a superbly preserved 1908 Arts & Crafts mansion in Kooyong Road Toorak, boasts a grand wood-panelled billiard room featuring a high raftered ceiling, original patterned wallpaper, an ornate six-lamp brass lightshade, and eight concrete piers to carry the weight of a billiard table. The central feature of the room is a full-size Alcocks Billiard Table Manufacturers Squatter's Favourite model billiard table in highly figured Tasmanian Blackwood. This historic table was ho...Continue reading

01.01.2022 Alcocks offers for sale a second-hand 9ft Commonwealth model billiard table, No 10263, manufactured in 1998. Since then it has been owned by one family who have clearly treated it with special care. Table 10263 is now offered for sale with: New moulded rubber cushions New Strachan 6811 West of England cloth Show woodwork re-polished and touched out as necessary... Surface of slate bed checked and adjusted as required Delivery and installation to a Melbourne Metro Area ground floor location https://alcocks.com.au//second-hand-9ft-commonwealth-model #alcocks #since1853 #billiards #snooker #pool #melbourne #australia