Showboat

used to be a great place for the snooker 🎱 back in the 80’s/90’s when every teen wanted to be an Alex Higgins 😀 I wonder are the tables still in there rotting away…?

Yes they are, the snooker hall isn't in a great state thought.

I wonder would it be possible to get a hold of one tables prior to the demolition of the whole place…..? I would assume though they are Probably water or bird sh1te damaged at this stage….?

I was offered a table last year (jokingly) but I'll inquire and get back to you if I get an answer.

Whatever about the snooker tables, I'd say they were 20-30 years old at the time the place closed down so likely would have paid themselves off over the years. Although their book value would be 0 at the time of closure I'd say someone would still have been willing to pay a few bob to take one.

A few years before they closed they put in 6 nice new American style pool tables in the smaller room just as you came in the main entrance door. If I remember correctly they would've been put in around 2009/2010, given the place closed in 2014 they would have been still relatively new by then a worth a few quid. Did they end up selling them? I'd be surprised if they were left in there to rot.

No everything is still in the snooker place was just completely left to rot was in there recently myself had a look around the place the pub can be accessed nowadays . American pool room is destroyed tables on their sides, upside down, legs broken and puddles of water on the floor. The double doors into the snooker hall are smashed open too wide open all the time, there’s nothing left in there only the tables, snooker tables are covered in mould, broken glass, furniture, some even have the cloths torn it’s very sad to see. Nothing left in there either cues, balls, score boards everything was stripped from the place it seems. The back part of the pub itself is in a terrible condition too was obviously ruined by the fire there’s holes in the floors kind of have to watch your step, every window, emergency door etc glass smashed in on everything

Is there some connection between pub closures and Waterford Crystal closure?

That place was doing great business up until the day it closed nothing to do with the fact it wasn’t a thriving business the banks took it as the owners hadn’t filed their accounts in about two or three years at the time and it closed almost over night hence why all the staff at the time staged a sit in protest in the pub for a few weeks. Shame it was just left to rot after. I’m going to try and get in there again at some point to take proper photos and that only took a short video of the snooker hall when I was there