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The Norman Clare Collection, now called the Snooker Heritage Collection, at Thurston, St. Anne Street, Liverpool is probably the largest collection of billiards and snooker memorabilia in the world. Only the Heinrich Weingartner Museum in Vienna compare with it and that is devoted to carom billiards.

Part of the Norman Clare Billiard & Snooker Heritage Collectionat Thurston’s Liverpool offices is a significant Billiard / Snooker cue collection and given that there are specialist collectors interest in cues, in the UK and USA, it was decided not only to catalogue the collection but also photograph them and add the information to the web site.

In November 2017 a call was received from a Mr. Foster who had some information on a patent for Billiard Pocket Nets that allowed a referee or player to remove the balls from the net without having to put a hand into the net via the slate pocket opening. (It turned out that it was not as the same idea as the ‘bottomless pockets’ that were perhaps more commonly used).