Simply Sports Table Tennis  collection from the Creators, Jaques of London

Over 100 years ago John Jaques the third, a great sportsman, turned the parlour game of Gossima into Ping Pong, later to become Table Tennis. Around the end of Queen Victoria's reign, the game became an enormous craze - everyone was playing Ping Pong. Before long the world was playing table tennis which eventually became the National Sport of China. Jaques tables can still claim to have been chosen for more World Championships than any other. Nowadays, Jaques still make the only English made tables, although there is now much competition from European and Far Eastern products of perhaps lesser quality*

* (Quote taken from Jaques 2006 brochure)