Coming on SATURDAY, JUNE 9

SPECIAL EVENT: ALL-DAY COMPETITION

After our successful tournament in February, Hickling Snooker Club is holding another limited balls knockout contest (two reds plus all the colours) at the snooker room at Hickling Barn. Come along and test your playing skill against fellow club members – no meter charge.
Entry fee: £5 (includes buffet lunch in the main hall). Pay on the door, but email snooker@hicklingbarn.com or call Harvey on 598717 to let us know if you can take part.

 

ABOUT HICKLING SNOOKER CLUB
After a gap of six years Hickling Snooker Club was re-launched at the start of 2012. Within a couple of weeks it had achieved it's target of 60 members. With a room of its own at Hickling Barn the club offers two full-sized, newly-restored tables in a quiet and comfortable location complete with under floor heating.xus know if you can take part.

 

Anyone is welcome to join the club. There is an annual membership fee of £25.00 and a nominal rate for guests. Access to the room is via an electronic key card, for which members pay a deposit of £5.00. The lights on the tables are metered at £2.50 an hour – so bring lots of change!

Hickling Snooker Club has a proud history. From the early 1970’s it was a regular winner of cups and trophies at county and regional level in both snooker and billiards. At one stage it was so popular that membership had to be limited to 50 - because players were having to wait too long to get a game!

The new club is being organised by Harvey Gibbons, one of the founders of the original club who became known as ‘the Hurricane of Hickling’. He remembers finding one of the tables in bits under a boxing ring in Fleggburgh – and getting it for the bargain price of £50.00. Within a year or so of the club starting up it was in the Yarmouth League and on the way to prizewinning success.

Among the characters Harvey recalls from those days was Fred Shepherd who used to light the stove in the old village hall which the club took over from the Women’s Institute. “Fred only had one arm, and used to rest his cue on a special attachment on his artificial arm, but he was a good player.”

Fred’s stove was one of the reasons why the old club had to close in 2005 – it proved too much of a fire risk for the insurance company, meaning that the hall became too expensive to keep going.

The decision to close the club was taken reluctantly. The tables were dismantled and the parts carefully numbered before being put into storage in a dry barn on the outskirts of Hickling. Last October all the parts of the tables were taken out of long-term storage before being reassembled and re-covered by an expert restorer.

If you are interested in joining Hickling Snooker Club or just finding out more email: snooker@hicklingbarn.com
or call Harvey Gibbons on 01692 598717 or 07710283768.