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Riva Bingo Bristol, Wells Road - Lost Bingo Halls

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Club Closed: July 2009

Riva Bingo
Broad Walk Shopping Centre
Wells Road
Bristol
Avon
BS4 2QU

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Riva Bingo Bristol, Wells Road Background And History

The closure of Bristol Riva Bingo Bristol fits into an all too familiar pattern. It was decided to close the club due to revenue losses which have been attributed to various factors including the smoking ban, increased taxation of bingo halls and the Gaming Act.

In a rare public airing of accounts, the club showed that it actually made a loss of £200,000 in 2008, due to a 100% in custom over a two year period. With figures like that it is hard to have anything other than sympathy for the owners of the club. More sympathy should however be directed to the employees who lost their jobs, and the regulars who had been coming to the club for years. It is expected that the closure with have a knock on effect for local businesses who netted passing trade from the bingo hall goers. A sad story indeed.

By Gareth Whieldon (July 2009)

Photographs Of The Riva Bingo Bristol, Wells Road

If you have any photos from this lost hall, be it of its interior, the staff, special events, parties, customers and more; and you'd like to share them here, please contact us to arrange adding them to the site.

Riva Bingo Bristol

Location of the old Riva Bingo Bristol before it was closed.

Your Comments And Memories Of The Wells Road Riva Bingo

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Other Clubs In The Area

Listed below are a couple of clubs in the area as an alternative to the Riva Bingo Bristol.

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