The current form started in the UK in the 1930s and now has leagues in Norfolk, Sussex, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Kent, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Yorkshire and Northamptonshire.

[1][2] The game was transformed into Billiard Russe during the 16th century for the Russian Tsars and a derivative of Bagatelle played by French royalty.

[1][3] He persuaded the Jelkes company of Holloway Road in London to make a similar table.

[6] It is now a traditional bar game played in leagues in the English counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Kent, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex and Yorkshire, and also the Channel Islands.

[1] Earliest versions of the game used wooden mushrooms instead of pegs which have a thin curved stalk and a flattish rounded cap.

[10][11] The Bar Billiards World Championship (called the British Isles Open up to 1999) is held every year in Jersey.