Sumner ( Lincolnshire Collections, vol. 1: The Joshua Gibbons Manuscript), 1997; p. 86 (appears as "Divel Amongst the Taylors").

The first table of this kind was probably the one made around 1940 in a coffee house in Switzerland. [4] This even has a manual resetting facility. Geese & Fountain (Croxton Kerrial) - An award-winningspecialist beer pubon the road from Melton to Granthamthat has recently acquired an old, handmade skittles table.approximately 1820. One of the games (shown on the right) was the most beautiful Table a Toupie game Tony Chambers, Editor-in-Chief of Wallpaper*, says: “Handmade is a testimony to great design, talent and ideas, and the determination to achieve the extraordinary. We are once again celebrating beautiful new friendships and beautiful new things.” Fairburn's edition of the play is entitled The Devil among the Tailors, it includes an account of the event. [3]

Bulls Head (Little Hallam Hill, Ilkeston) - Possibly thelast surviving venue forthe gamein an area that once had a thriving Table Skittles league (Long Alley is still going strong). The table, an old Jacques model ( left), ison permanent loan to the pubby a local, andset up ready for play in the right-hand bar. The skittles arekept behind the bar counter. Aberrant has become known for insightful researched projects that challenge perception and introduce new and unexpected ways of experiencing the world. During their architecture residency at the Victoria and Albert museum they studied the original drawings of the now demolished 'Elephant & Castle' public house in Lambeth. The designs, by the architect Albert A. Webbe, reveal a mixed used building divided up into three main areas: a 'public' space for drinking; 'private' areas for the pub's regular patrons, who used the watering hole as an extension of their home and office, and a large space that was used for group meetings and community events. Many of the traditional games which have been a part of our pub culture for generations are in serious, perhaps even terminal decline. This decline in pub game play mirrors the more general decline in pub going of recent years. This blog aims to document a few of these fine (and fun) pastimes before they, and the pubs where they are still played, finally disappear forever. I urge you to help protect our traditions. Please visit your own local pubs, drink their beer, play their games... The dimensions of the board are 82cm x 41cm. The frame is 3cm wide. The actual playing area is 67 × 35cm. Seen from the player in the direction of the bowling, the lane is inclined about 1° downwards, from left to right the lane is inclined about 4°. That is, the spinning top usually moves in semi-circular sweeps toward the higher right-hand side. The skittles are about 6cm apart from one another. The skittle layout forms a square, at 45° to the sides of the board, with a side length of 12cm. These values differ regionally.DEVIL/DIVEL/DE'IL AMONG THE TAYLORS/TAILORS [1]. AKA and see " Devil's Dream (1)" (New). Scottish, English, Irish, Canadian, Scotland, American; Reel. Canada, Prince Edward Island. England, Northumberland. A Major (most versions): A Mixlydian (Petrie, Ross): D Major (Huntington). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Balmoral, Hardie, Honeyman, Hunter, Johnson, Kerr, Petrie, Ross, Skinner, Surenne): ABB' (MacDonald, Emmerson): AABB (Bain, Cole, Huntington, Kennedy, Lowe, Raven, Sumner): ABCB (Skye). A popular tune throughout the present and former English commonweatlh and colonies. It was performed on the concert stage as part of a set romantically entitled "Spey's Fury's" by J. Scott Skinner in 1921. "De'il Among the Tailors" is the name of a skittles game—a kind of tabletop pub game—although the game may well have taken its title from the popularity of the fiddle tune. The title appears in Henry Robson's list of popular Northumbrian song and dance tunes, which he published c. 1800. David Johnson (1983), whose version is from Macgoun's Five fashionable Reels (c. 1800), states the tune was written c. 1790. The melody appears as an untitled hornpipe in the music manuscript copybook of John Burks, dated 1821. Unforunately, nothing is known of Burks, although he may have been from the north of England. Bayard collected a version resembling the "Devil's Dream" forms of the tune from a source raised on Prince Edward Island, Canada (Bayard, 1981; Appendix No. 2B, pg. 572). See also "Devil's Dream" for another PEI collected version. In America the tune is almost invariably known by the "Devil's Dream" title (although Ira Ford had it as " Devil Among the Tailors (2) (The)," presumably collected from Missouri fiddlers--see note for that version for more on American sources), while in the British Isles it usually appears under the title in the heading above. Emmerson (1971) suggests the melody can be identified as belonging to a class of melodies with phrases based on a quarter note followed by two eighth notes; tunes in this class also include " Largo's Fairy Dance," " Rachel Rae," and " Wind that Shakes the Barley (The)." There are 24 points on a Nine Men’s Morris mill board. The points are placed on the corners and intersecting lines of 3 concentric squares. table about 8 feet away. It is extremely popular Northamptonshire and well known in Leicestershire,

Skittles are positioned amongst the rooms and a top is then sent spinning from one end of the table Source for notated version: - the 1823–26 music mss of papermaker and musician Joshua Gibbons (1778–1871, of Tealby, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds) [Sumner]; the c. 1800–1802 music manuscript collection of ship's fiddler William Litten, who was with the British East India fleet—the ms. was brought to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., by a member of the Coffin family, who was perhaps a shipmate [Huntington].referred to as Table Skittles while outside this area, it is not well known and Table Skittles tends If a player happens to score three coins in one bed during a single turn, they’ll have scored a “sergeant.”

The full-sized version of this centuries-old game involves rolling a wooden bowling ball down a 21-foot long skittle alley (either indoors or as a lawn game) towards an arrangement of 9 or 10 wooden pins.This board will have 13 hooks, numbered 1 through 13, placed in the following pattern from top down: (row 1) 10, 2, 9; (row 2) 5, 6; (row 3) 11, 13, 12; (row 4) 4, 3; and (row 5) 7,1,8. As the winter season approaches, we thought it would be a good time to explore some of our favorite traditional pub games. Have no fear, you can still easily play a traditional game of skittles in your favorite bar or at home. That is, a game of “Table Skittles”. for (apart from the legs, don't know what happened to them) and lovingly polished since then, and is