The snooker club is open between 9am and 11pm seven days a week. There will be a few occasions when the room is needed for another Barn activity and members will be warned in advance by email and notices in the club room.
Hickling Snooker Club is open for new members. If you would like to join please call Harvey on 07710 283768. You can get an application form by clicking here.
The annual subscription fee is £30. The lights on the tables are metered at £2.50 an hour – so bring lots of change!
Charity Competition
We are holding a competition in May to raise some money for charity and to get members to meet other players. Here are the details:
* There will be blocks of four players for the first round with the names drawn out of a hat on 7th May. Each block will have a captain nominated by the committee who will contact the others in the bloc to organise when matches will be played.
* In the first round, each player will play two frames with each of the other three in the block. Don't worry about coming up against a much stronger player - there will be a handicap system in place organised by Simon Mayhew!
* The winners of each block will play the runners-up of another block in a quarter-final round. Names will be drawn out of a hat.
* The quarter-finals and semi-finals will be the best of three frames. The final will be the best of five frames.
* The overall winner will get a £50 prize and the runner up will get a £25 prize - paid out of club funds. The money raised by the £5 entry fee will go to a charity chosen by the competition winner from a list of all the charities nominated by the competition entrants.
If you have any queries please call Harvey on 07710 283768 or Simon on 07931 450555.
Paying your subscription
The annual subscription of £30 runs from January 1st each year. The easiest way to pay is online to the following account:
Name: Hickling Snooker Club
Sort code: 20-99-21
Account number: 90494801
Please email snooker@hicklingbarn.com to let us know you have paid.
If you do not have online banking, please take or send the subscription fee (cash or cheque) to our chairman, Harvey Gibbons at:
5 Heron Way
Hickling
NR12 0YQ
Things to remember when playing at the club:
* Please use the brushes provided to clean the tables if they have chalk dust or anything else that might damage the cloth. Always brush in a straight line from the baulk end to the black ball end.
* Please remember to put the covers back on the table after you have finished your game
* If both tables are in use when you arrive, put your name on the blackboards and wait for the other players to finish
* When re-spotting the colours gently roll the ball up to the spot, don’t drop it down hard
* Do not attempt to play without the lights on
* Do not play music in the snooker room
Thanks for your co-operation.
The club is chaired 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. In October 2011 all the parts of the tables were taken out of long-term storage before being reassembled and re-covered by an expert restorer.
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