Children's Portable Skittle Alley
A permanent skittle alley is not always a feasible option especially for outdoor venues or sites with space restrictions. For community halls, leisure centres, sports halls, hotels, school fairs, fetes and the like, a portable skittle alley is usually a better idea.
Masters Traditional Games brings you quality portable skittle alleys to cater for your requirements.
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These Skittle Alleys are suitable for both indoor and outdoor use and come in 6ft sections making them portable and easy to be transported in most estate cars as well as vans. They can be easily assembled in as little as 10 minutes by just one man, and are dismantled just as quickly. They can also be stored in a small space when not in use.
These Children's Portable Skittle Alleys are made to a high standard, they do not include a return gully, (being sectional they can be made shorter if available space dictates). The width is smaller than our adult alleys at 2 feet wide. The ball / skittle catch area is protected with foam buffer to reduce the noise level. These Skittle Alleys are designed for commercial use and are ideal for pubs, clubs, schools, village halls and leisure hire companies.
This Alley is supplied with 3 x 3¼" composition bowling balls and 9 x 9" wooden skittle pins as shown.
The skittle alley is made from exterior ply that has been treated with wood-stain to ensure it's weatherproof and hard-wearing and requires only minor maintenance. As with many outdoor games it is meant to be played outdoors but not stored outdoors in all weathers; our general advice for this sort of thing is treat as you would a lawn-mower or a push-bike, i.e. it's fine if they're caught in a shower or used in hot sun but after use, wipe them down and store them properly.
Note that portable alleys are not as wide as permanent alleys of the sort found in pubs and community centres. The pin diamond may not be as per league specificatons on a larger alley either. For these two reasons, it is probably not appropriate for serious skittle leagues.
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Children's Portable Skittle Alley 20ft x 2ft - no return gulley, 9 inch skittles |
£486.87 | £559.90 | 20 + transit time | To order, or for a quote, ring or Email with address & zip/postcode.
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Delivery and packing is extra. For overseas, this will represent significant extra cost. Costs within England & Wales may vary from £50 - £200 depending upon location. Please email us giving your full address and we will get back to you with a quote.
If you have a custom requirement for a different length or width of alley, please email us with details and we can provide you with a quote. As these alleys come in 6ft sections it would be easy to make a 24ft or 36ft version for example.
Skittle Scoreboard
A
customisable Skittles scoreboard is available for competitions and team
events. If you would like a scoreboard to accompany the alley, please
see the Skittles scoreboard page.
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The Origin of Skittles
Skittles, or Nine Pins, as played in an alley has always been a popular pub game and is the ancestor of related games including ten-pin bowling and various indoor skittles variations. The origins of the game are uncertain but in Germany, in the 3rd or 4th century, monks played a game with a kegel which was a club carried for self defence. In the game, the kegel represented a sin or temptation and the monks would throw stones at it until they knocked it over. The modern German term for skittles is Kegelen. There are also two 14th century manuscripts that show a game called Kayles and depict throwers about to launch a long club-like object at eight pins and a kingpin.
The typical form of Skittles is wherein balls are thrown or rolled from one end of an alley in an effort to knock down nine pins at the other end. Over the years, Skittles developed regional variations in the size of equipment, the rules and so forth. In the East Midlands, people play Long Alley in which the projectiles are rough balls or small capsule shaped logs called "cheeses" and a score is only made if the cheeses bounce a single time just in front of the pins. Old English Skittles or London Skittles, as played at the famous Freemasons Arms in Hampstead, is a majestic game in which enormous discus-shaped cheeses are flung so that they hit the skittles directly without touching the floor first.
From these old games, various miniaturised versions appeared which were more convenient for many pubs with limited space. These include Northamptonshire Skittles and the extremely popular Table Skittles or Devil Amongst The Tailors.
The most popular version of skittles, however, is West Country Skittles wherein 9 skittles are arranged in a square at the end of an alley that might be 24 feet, sometimes much longer. Each turn starts with all the skittles standing and consists of three balls being rolled down the alley. If all the pins are knocked down, then they are reset. So the maximum score in one turn is 27.
You can learn more about the History of Skittles from The Online Guide to Traditional Games.