Great Australian Billiard Rooms
Our sincere thanks to all participants in this project
Full size Alcock John Roberts model billiard table installed at Government House in 1876. This magnificent billiard room includes a gallery of portraits of the Governors of Victoria and their spouses.
Alcock & Co Salisbury model full-size billiard table No 4868 in Queensland Silky Oak c1906, installed in 2024 in a custom-built billiard room featuring maps of French wine regions.
Full size Alcock Duke of Edinburgh model billiard tables, as originally installed. Highlights of this remarkable room are the superb coffered ceiling and fine surrounding furniture.
This brilliant billiard room, venue for the 2019 World Billiards Championship, achieves a fine balance between the modern and the traditional. The room features eight antique Alcock billiard tables including two prized Duke of Edinburgh models – one in Tasmanian Blackwood and the other a rare and valuable model in Tulipwood. Photograph: Neil Maclachan.
A lofty vaulted and raftered ceiling with skylight is the feature of the billiard room in this Transitional Queen Anne style private club. The room features twin Alcock & Co Squatters Favourite model full size billiard tables installed in 1889. Photograph: Michelle Richter.
A soaring vaulted ceiling and skylight is the highlight of this Art Nouveau billiard room featuring an antique Alcock & Co Commercial model full-size billiard table.
Full size Alcock Duke of Edinburgh model billiard table originally installed during the late 1870s. This outstanding Australian billiard room evokes the style of the great billiard rooms of the period with a vaulted and panelled ceiling with skylight.
Three Full Size Alcock Tables: one of unique design, featuring casuarina timbers, and extensive high relief carving; flanked by two Duke of Edinburgh model tables. This room stands in the very finest Billiards Tradition, with magnificent heavily moulded high ceilings, twin fireplaces, massive richly carved black wood overmantels and much more.
An excellent group of full size Alcock billiard tables, a Hopetoun model (No 5512, 1900s, centre) and two Duke of Edinburgh models (No 1947, 1880s, left; No 2162, 1880s, right). Kooyong’s tables, fully restored in 1990 and displaying striking fiddleback blackwood show timbers, would be the envy of any club in Australia. Photograph: Michelle Richter.
A full size Alcock Canted Leg model billiard table in Australian Cedar and Blackwood, installed in 1886 and in position ever since, is the centrepiece of this timeless room which features extensive timber panelling, a high waffle ceiling, and a pair of late nineteenth century leadlight panels displaying cartoon-like billiard scenes.
A pair of matching full size Alcock billiard tables in a very fine billiard room featuring a high vaulted ceiling with a magnificent skylight in the 19th century tradition, raised leather seating, and stunning custom carpeting.
Full size Alcock Charlton model billiard table, show timbers in black satin finish, installed 2012. A truly remarkable aquarium forms one of the walls of this great billiard room.
Full size Alcock John Roberts model billiard table installed following restoration 2013. This great billiard room features an outstanding curve fronted bar area and glass fronted internal garden.
10 ft Thomson and Taylor Federal model billiard table, installed 2007 following restoration. A grand Victorian style home billiard room furnished with items reflective of the period.
9ft contemporary style Alcock billiard table. A unique and arresting cantilevered design developed in conjunction with the table owner’s architects, and installed in 2012.
Full size billiard table by A W Thomson, with vivid figured Blackwood veneers, restored 2010. In this great billiard room, the rugged stone wall contrasts with the simple lines of the table.
Full size Alcock Duke of Edinburgh model table, restored and installed, the late 1980s.This great billiard room has an outstanding vaulted cedar ceiling and a panoramic view of the countryside.
Brilliant multi-purpose billiard room, meticulously designed in the Art Deco style. 9Ft Alcock Table individually constructed and installed 2015.
A Charlton model 10ft table with Walnut finish enhances this light-filled room with panelled walls and very fine arched stained glass windows.
Interior designers Helen Green Design Studio chose an Alcocks Australis model billiard table in Blackwood with Charcoal cloth as the centrepiece of this stunning room.
A very fine purpose-built billiard room in an 1892 Edwardian style National Trust house featuring the original Alcock Standard model full size billiard table, a vaulted and panelled timber ceiling with skylight, a stained glass feature bay window, and much more. Photograph: Michelle Richter.
An antique Alcock & Co Canted Leg model full-size billiard table is the centrepiece of one of Melbourne’s grandest billiard rooms featuring soaring clerestory windows.
Great Australian Billiard Rooms
Alcock billiard tables are found in many remarkable locations within Australia and overseas: clubs, corporations, small businesses, service organisations and private homes (refer to “About Us”, prestige locations page).
We wish to offer our sincere thanks to those who have participated in this Great Australian Billiard Rooms project
Government House Victoria
A unique Melbourne landmark, its construction a symbol of the optimism prevailing in the 19th century “Marvellous Melbourne”. The spacious billiard room, with its superb vaulted ceiling is one of its many remarkable features.
Werribee Park Mansion
Completed by wealthy pastoralists, the Chirnside brothers in 1877. This remarkable building houses a billiard room in the Grand Victorian Tradition.
This table was originally installed when the building was completed, but during the earlier years of the 20th century was donated to a private school. When the Victorian Government assumed control of the Mansion during the 1970’s the table was returned to the Mansion, where it remains today.
Racv City Club, Melbourne
When transferring the Club to a new purpose built premises in the early 2000’s, the club provided for a grand eight table billiard room. Brilliantly furnished, it is widely regarded today as possibly the finest example of a modern style club billiard room in Australia. The room has become the accepted venue for the annual Australian National Snooker Championships and other major tournaments.
Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club
A world centre for Tennis when our Australian players occupied centre stage. The club billiard room provides a perfect setting for a remarkable collection of Alcock Tables, each in excellent condition.
Mr Sean Buckley, Toorak, Melbourne
This truly remarkable domestic billiard room incorporates a spectacular aquarium which constitutes virtually an entire wall of the room.
Timeless Interiors, Melbourne
Designers of the unique Art Deco style multi-purpose billiard room.
AND ALL OTHER PARTICIPANTS To those who prefer to remain unnamed, from Melbourne, regional and country areas of Victoria and other Australian states. Their splendid billiard rooms are of widely varying styles and character, ranging from the high Victorian period through to the more minimalist trend of today.