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Lost Bingo Halls

Bingo halls have been closing for many years for various reasons, but the recent rush of closures as a result of the various UK smoking bans and taxation issues is both alarming and sad.

A good bingo hall has a culture and atmosphere all of its own that once gone, can never be recaptured. It's not just the culture that's in danger of being lost in time, it's the very fabric of the buildings, the interiors, decor and fittings.

With that in mind, I decided to set up the Lost Bingo Halls section as a place to keep information on the closed ones, whether they shut recently or in the past. Each featured closed club will be a place to collect available information on the club, photographs, members and staff comments and memories.

This is not something I can do alone, it requires the input of bingo fans everywhere. If you've have information, photographs, comments on a club that has closed in the past, or if your club is soon to close, then let me know and I'll add it to this section. If there's not a page for your lost club yet, let me know and I'll get a page together for it.

To the best of our knowledge the clubs listed here have closed. We've attempted to contact many of the newer closures to double check their status, but failed. If we've listed a club as closed here, and we're wrong though let us know and we'll remove it immediately.

Unfortunately there's no central source for information on all the UK's bingo halls, so we're unable to physically visit the clubs ourselves to verify if they're open or shut.

Bingo Mysteries

Before we get on to the big list of closed clubs, we have an archive of bingo photos we've collected, but aren't actually sure of their origins. We're looking to get info on these clubs to add to this section or if they're still open, to add them to the sites in the UK Bingo Club Finder.

Visit the Bingo Mysteries Gallery below to see if you can help us put names and places to the pictures we have listed.

Lost Bingo Halls And Clubs Listed By City / Town

We've listed all our lost clubs firstly by location, its city or town. Some clubs went by a number of chain names, in which case we have mainly listed them by their last owner. Any lost club sections with photographs are noted. Click on a letter below to jump the place index position of the town you want to look at, or scroll down to browse.

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