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Title: Swadford Street
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Description: Looking West along Swadford Street, with Belmont Bridge in the background
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The small group of men on the right are stood outside the passage leading to Willy Holts Billiard Hall. There were seven tables each side of the central alley with a door at the end with steps leading to Albert Terrace, this was handy if you were under sixteen and the police came in at the front.
There was a little office for the manager where you booked a table, He would switch
the lights on and off when your time was up. The cost in the 1940’s was five-pence for twenty minutes billiards and sixpence for thirty minutes snooker. The manager in the forties was Mr Herbert Smith.
Added by: j. m. varley - 13 Apr 09
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