Bar Billiards is a form of billiards which is often thought to be based on the traditional game of bagatelle. It actually developed from the earlier French/Belgian game billard russe, with supposedly Russian origins. Bar billiards in its current form started in the UK in the 1930s when an Englishman David Gill saw Billard Russe being played in Belgium and persuaded the Jelkes company of Holloway Road in London to make a similar table.