View of billiard room at Kilnside House, Paisley.

Description View of billiard room at Kilnside House, Paisley.

Date 1890

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 700909

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 10153

Scope and Content Billiard Room, Kilnside House, Seedhill Road, Paisley, Renfrewshire (now demolished) Kilnside House, a large mansion built c.1836, was altered and extended in the 1880s for Stewart Clark, a partner in Clark & Company, the Paisley threadmakers. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1890. The billiard room, with glass-fronted fitted bookcases, was possibly an extension to the conservatory, and doubled as a library and an office. Part of Clark's substantial art collection adorns one wall, and the raised wall seating allows spectators a good view of the action on the billiard table. In the Victorian era the game of billiards was the prerogative of the wealthy and the upper classes as the billiard table was not only expensive, but required its own room in which to be used. At that period, the game was played with three balls struck with cues into six pockets round the edge of the table. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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