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Encyclopedia ID 1185

Snooker

Also known as Billiards · English billiards

Illustration pattern only. No free-licence photograph yet: can you suggest one?

Cue sport on a large table with 15 reds and six coloured balls, played in pubs, clubs and halls.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of United Kingdom.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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