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Good Friday 18th April: CLOSED Easter Saturday 19th April: OPEN 9:00AM – 3:00PM Easter Sunday 20th April: CLOSED Easter Monday 21st April: CLOSED Easter Tuesday 22nd April: OPEN 9:00AM – 5:30PM
Alcocks in Victoria
Alcocks has been closely linked with amateur and professional billiards and snooker in Victoria and throughout Australia since 1864, in the earliest days of the Company, an association which has lasted for 160 years.
Barwon Heads Golf Club and Billiards
Alcocks Managing Director George Taylor was guest speaker at a dinner at the Barwon Heads Golf Club celebrating 100 years of Billiards at the Club. Click on the Options menu (three vertical dots) and select “Open speaker notes” to see the full presentation.
Henselite Lawn Bowls Testing
Alcocks has supported Henselite, manufacturer of the world’s #1 Lawn Bowls, for over 100 years. The original Henselite factory in North Melbourne (pictured) contained two lawn bowls test beds, each comprising four Alcock full-size billiard tables. As the Henselite factory moved further from the city, Alcocks has twice relocated these tables to the new factory, […]
Dame Nellie Melba’s billiard table
Dame Nellie Melba’s own Alcock & Co billiard table was recently restored by Alcocks, and relocated from her Coldstream house Coombe Cottage to the Ryman Healthcare Nellie Melba retirement village in Wheeler’s Hill. Story by Alan Raskall, Nine News Melbourne 19th August 2022.
No Job Too Hard
Alcocks install and remove billiard tables from even the trickiest locations. We recently used mobile cranes to install two billiard tables into upper storey locations where stair access was impossible. Our thanks to the skilled professionals at Rigweld Crane Hire Moorabbin https://rigweld.com.au/ who made this possible. Conditions apply.
Billiards-Related Prints
Alcocks is pleased to offer a series of high-quality prints of 19th century billiards-related subjects, including two early and rare Alcock & Co advertisements. Prints offered include: Alcock & Co 1871 Advertisement, Alcock & Co c1883 Advertisement, Professor Rudolphe’s Exhibition, Vincent van Gogh – The Night Cafe. Visit https://alcocks.com.au/product-category/accessories/prints for details.
Oakwood Premier Melbourne Games Room
Melbourne’s newest luxury hotel Oakwood Premier features a stunning Games Room which showcases a custom-made Alcocks Australis model full-size billiard table in Victorian Ash against a backdrop of Melbourne’s skyline as viewed from Southbank. Photography by Rhiannon Taylor.
Another stunning billiard room
Helen Green Design Studio has created this stunning recreation room featuring an Alcocks Australis model 9ft pool table in a Smoke Haze finish with charcoal cloth.
George Taylor’s Birthday
Alcocks today celebrates the birthday of our Managing Director George Taylor, only the sixth Managing Director in Alcocks 168 year history. Alcock & Co was founded in 1853 by the redoubtable Henry Upton Alcock, the Father of the billiard trade in Australia. After 77 years under the control of the Alcock family, in 1930 the […]