CROQUET TO TIDDLEY WINKS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1945, Page 6

CROQUET TO TIDDLEY WINKS

Players of indoor and outdoor games everywhere owe much to a farmer’s son, Thomas Jaques, who came to London in seach of work and became a in ivory, bone,

and hardwoods (reports the London correspondent of the “Sydney Morning Herald.”) He founded the House of Jaques, whose 150th anniversary has been marked by the publication of a souvenir brochure.

Thomas’s son, John—the first of a line of Jaques so named, which has continued until the present day—designed the chessmen which are now the standard throughout the Western world. The second John Jaques introduced croquet to Britain.

This firm invented and introduced such favourites as “Happy Families” “Snakes and Ladders;’ and “Tiddley Winks.” / , , j Taking up a little-known game, and renaming it Ping ,F 0 1 ft what is now known as Table Tentus.