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 01692 598725 or 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!
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - 2025
The 2025 Annual General Meeting of the club was held January 27th.
Key updates from the meeting:
* Annual subscription held at £30, table light meter charges also unchanged
* Club now has more than 40 members, 19 joined since January 2024
* We will hold a competition later in the year, with a handicap system so everyone gets a fair chance
* Committee will look at whether table cloths/lights need replacing, and will also look at setting up a WhatsApp group or webcam so people can see when tables are busy
* Chair. Secretary and Treasurer re-elected, Vince Bull joins committee as Vice-chair
* Club member David Prettyman is the club's nominee on the Barn's board of trustees
If you didn't get to the AGM and haven't yet renewed your subscription, you can do so by online payment of £30 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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