Alcocks custom design expertise attracts clients looking for a billiard table of unusual or original design. During 2024 the company was engaged to create a truly visionary custom design table, with instructions that the main design features should include: • Huge richly polished cushion rails with caps nearly three times the width of a conventional rail• […]
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
Alcocks offers for sale antique and second-hand billiard tables. Some of our past offerings in a variety of styles are shown.