The Castle Snooker Club was a billiard hall at 57-59 Castle Way, Southampton, England,[1] opened in 1970 by professional snooker player Bernard Bennett.[2] Snooker historian Clive Everton described it as "the earliest of the new-style snooker establishments which were to replace the dingy, disreputable billiard halls of old."[3]
It was the venue for Bennett's 1971 challenge match against Rex Williams for the World Billiards Championship. Williams retained the title, winning by 9,250 point to 4,058.[4] The 1972 World Snooker Championship qualifying match between Bennett and Graham Miles was held at the club; Miles won 15–6.[5]
As of 1999, professional player Duncan Moore coached at the club.[6] Bennett died in 2002, having seen the Club resognised as an accredited centre by snooker's governing body.[7] The club closed in June 2007.[8]
^"Pioneer Bennett gave snooker a Big Break!". Daily Echo. Southampton. 30 November 1999. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
^Baxter, Trevor (21 January 2002). "Bernard Bennett". The Independent. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
^Everton, Clive (1993). The Embassy Book of World Snooker. London: Bloomsbury. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7475-1610-1.
^Everton, Clive (1982). The Guinness Book of Snooker (Revised ed.). Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. pp. 106–107. ISBN 978-0-85112-256-4.
^"Miles and Parkin come through". World Snooker. May 1971. p. 5.
^"Pioneer Bennett gave snooker a Big Break!". Daily Echo. 30 November 1999.
^"Snooker world mourn Bennett's death". Daily Echo. 19 January 2002.
^"Q World". Daily Echo. 4 July 2009.
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