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• Pub Games
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• Wanted - Venues
• Multi-Games Leagues
• About the site

Venues

Do you have a room(s) that may be suitable to hold a Manor Games event?  Can you hold one-off events or would you like to be considered as a regular base?  If you are licensed premises then that obviously means regular customers.  At least one regular base is required (both indoors and outdoors) for the proposed Multi Leagues.  All games are portable, so once dismantled and removed then your room becomes available again.

If you are unlicensed, you should have refreshment facilities.  Wheelchair friendly venues are another consideration.  

Pubs - do you have a grassed outdoor area doing nothing? Why not become the only pub in your area offering bat and trap, bocce or aunt sally?

Hotels - why not consider a games weekend for your guests during less busy periods?

Please contact Manor with your details.

The UK’s first Traditional Multi-Games Leagues

A single games league needs multiple venues, taking up permanent space at each venue.  However, a multi games league, with portable games, can be sited temporarily at one or a handful of bases. Not just a skittles league, but a bowls, skittles, quoits, ring board, toads, shuffleboard, bagatelle etc league. Why become tied to just one game when there are so many traditional variations to enjoy?

The intent is to establish both indoor and outdoor multi-games leagues.  This region would be the first in the UK to do so.  

The games used will be as near league standard and format as is practical to use, or that are available.

Contact Manor:-

• If you are interested in playing – when there are sufficient numbers you will be contacted with fuller details.
• If you are interested in acting as a venue  - a site visit can be arranged first.  It is preferable that you are sited in zone 1.
• Do you have transport? Can you act as a driver?

Village Green - Outdoors

Multi League

Weather - One lasting tradition in England is the fickleness of the weather.  A spring / summer outdoor games league will have to take this into account.  In an ideal world there will be dry and warm weather for every week of the season.  The advantage of starting from scratch is that we can make allowances for bad weather when mapping out a season.

Proposals

The inaugural season would be a chance for participants to shape the league structure and iron out logistics. Weekly fixtures lasting for 3 hours. Game slot time - 1 hour. Daylight hours (no lights).

Midweek early evening AND / OR Weekend afternoon.

Venues with suitable space for one or more games to run concurrently are a requirement.  A clutch of venues within fairly close proximity of each other would be favourable, and preferably centrally based in zone 1.  An ideal venue would be one with sufficient outdoor space where, when bad weather prevents further play outdoors, play in an alternative format can then take place indoors.

Teams of 6 -  with team, pairs and possibly singles games.

Everything stated for both indoor and outdoor leagues are proposals and open to discussion. Please email Manor regarding your interest or with any suggestions.

Other Games

Also if you have any thoughts concerning regular competition that can be applied to any of the other games formats e.g. tabletop football league, strategy games league, then please email.

Or would you just like to meet on a regular basis, perhaps as a classic board games club.

About the Site

As the site is new, there may be the odd glitch.  The choice of playing formats is already extensive but where improvements can be made they will be.  Photographs of games being played in situ will also be added.

Information in boxes set against a white background is for the group to take action.

Red text is used where an item may be currently unavailable or is soon to be added.

Your Action - Text set against a white background is for you to make choices and take action.

Pub Games

As pubs have had to fight for economic survival, short term fixes have been made. Pub games have become a major casualty of these changes.  Skittle alleys have been ripped out and replaced with dining areas.  Dart boards have been got rid of to use the throwing space.  Even within the support of a league structure, when pubs remove a facility, teams drop out and the continued existence of the games themselves are threatened.

If you live in the Greater Manchester area you would find it difficult to name more than a handful of pub games you have actually played.  Darts, crib, dominoes, pool, bar football would probably be the most widely named.  Beyond those, try naming another 5 pub games you may have heard of – skittle alley, table skittles, shove ha’penny, bar billiards – starting to struggle?  Let’s include a snooker table as well, but how many pubs have a snooker table nowadays?

As pub games physically disappear, so does the memory of many excellent games, resulting in the loss of probably the pub’s most vital social activity.  Think of a snooker table and you think of the game of snooker, yet there are many more games to be enjoyed using a snooker table that have been long forgotten.

Manor Games has amassed a collection of over 70 pub games from both Britain and abroad.  All these games are portable, so can be played without the venue having to permanently dedicate its space to those games.  The games can be taken to any venue that wishes to participate – whether a pub, village hall, community centre, social club, private residence, etc.

Pub and Parlour - Indoors

Multi League

Proposals

A winter season. Weekly fixtures lasting for 3 hours. 6 game slots of 30 mins.

Start time 7.00 pm. Midweek evening(s).

Venue (central) based in Zone 1.

Teams of 4 (ideal number of teams per night – 12) with team, pairs and singles games.

Download an advert for your notice board (PDF files)

Larger venue  advert

Smaller venue advert

Download an application form

League application form

Download an advert for your notice board

(PDF file)

Pub and Parlour Event Advert

PUB AND PARLOUR GAMES - NOW WITH LINKS TO YOUTUBE VIDEOS

Games Added -

More coffee time games, sports card games, mixed sport activity games, draughts variants, more strategy - including 'mind sports' games..

Pub and Parlour - Yorkshire Darts, Ipswich Fives Darts, Ladder Golf, Bull Board Quoits, Spinning Quoits, 9 pin Rope Quoits, Caves Quoits, more bagatelle variants, custom table for 'billiard type' games, On Target frisbee, New Age Kurling, Boccia

Also - Poker Bagatelle

Soon to be added

Pub and Parlour - Bumper Pool, Gate Skittles, Floor Shuffleboard, Giant Roll a Ball, Half Bowl Skittles

Strategy - Chess variants