BILLIARD TABLES:- RE-CONDITIONED,
REPAIRED AND RE-COVERED
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A short history of the training of Harvey Mitchell in the craft of building and maintaining billiard tables and allied equipment.
Harvey Mitchell began working in the billiard trade as an apprentice at Messrs. Orme and Sons,
a well-known billiard table manufacturer in Manchester. A rather dirty nameplate of Orme
and Sons is shown at right. The date was 27th August 1962 and the company was pair of
billiard companies the other being Burroughes and Watts. The two companies had merged some
years before, but kept their separate identities and were run separately as both firms
had long established customers, Burroughes and Watts having been established in 1843 and
Orme and Sons in 1845.
During the years 1962 through to 1968 Harvey spent much of his time in the Orme and Sons
workshop re-conditioning and re-covering old billiard tables as well as travelling to site
erecting and re-covering tables.
In 1967 the two companies were fully merged in preparation for a merger with the E. J. Riley group of companies. Harvey carried on working under the new management for another year, but was not totally happy with the new management practices and left in order to join F. Merral and Co. an old established Manchester based company that was bought just after world war two by Joe Davis, the world champion billiards and snooker player and Charlie Hughes, the sales manager of Merral's.
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During the next few years they would buy out two more local billiard firms... Luptons of Prestwich and Albert Monkhouse of Oldham, all through the four years that Harvey Mitchell worked with the Hughes, he had a good working relationship with them and ploughed his way through renovating a large stock of billiard tables that the company had acquired. 1971 saw a big change for Harvey due to a move from Manchester to the Staffordshire moorlands, where he established his own business, re-conditioning billiard tables, supplying billiards and snooker accessories and serving the billiards trade in general. Harvey Mitchell can attend to all your billiards and snooker requirements, please see Contact Details |
Written... 19 August 2008, Revised... 08 September 2008, Revised... 09,&anbsp;&11 November 2008, Revised... 02 June 2009,
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Joe Davis later sold his share of the Merral company to
Charlie Hughes, who brought in is son Harry to help him.
