Now closed, the Eastbourne Luxor Seven Bingo Club is quite an impressive building, and although no longer used for bingo, is still standing. Thanks to a regular contributor to this site, Charles S.P. Jenkins we have a new Gallery page, and Charles has also written about the history of the venue.
Category: Land Bingo
Bad Week For Bingo
Some people say ‘no news is good news’ and if you take that to its logical conclusion, all news is bad news (except for the cat rescued from tree ‘feel good’ story at the end of the evening news which helps us sleep better after hearing about so much misery). Well being in the world […]
Lucky Start To The Year For Opera Bingo Players
I recently reported on two big wins within weeks of each other at two of Opera Bingo’s three Cumbria clubs. When this happened before, it was followed by another win at their third club, well, they do say good things come in threes. But this time, their Carlisle club didn’t follow suit, in fact there […]
The Cost Of Snow For Bingo
Click here to play at Mecca Bingo Now that the snow has cleared and looks like it will not be coming back in any big way Mecca Bingo’s owners Rank are counting the cost. Their profits for the month of January are down by 3 million pounds. The downturn in profits was not just down […]
Review: BBC Four’s “Eyes Down! The Story Of Bingo”
I was quite excited to catch “Eyes Down! The Story Of Bingo” (part of the Timeshift documentary strand) for a number of reasons. Firstly because I spoke to the researchers for the programme last year; and secondly because there’s not to my knowledge been such an in-depth documentary done about the game’s history here. The […]
Eyes Down – The Story Of Bingo
The game we love to play online has a rich history and this week, BBC 4 is to look into the history of the game we all love in what is promising to be an exciting documentary. Now it’s easy to play bingo online, or even from your mobile phone and for over 50 years […]
Gala Bingo Rejoin Bingo Association
Click here to play at Gala Bingo Gala Bingo have recently rejoined the Bingo Association after a five year absence. They left in 2008, and I’m hoping that this return to the fold is a signal that bingo is going to get serious with the government over taxation issues. The Bingo Association is the main […]
New Bingo Hall Gallery
A new gallery has just been added to our Lost Halls section courtesy of Charles S.P. Jenkins, a keen photographer who has supplied us with a lovely set of photographs that he took himself. The gallery is of Gala Bingo in Powis Street, Woolwich, London, and like the previous set of the Slough Adelphi, includes […]
Two Big Wins At Opera Bingo
Opera Bingo only have three clubs, so for two to pay out fairly big wins in the space of a week is good going. The first win was last Sunday at Opera Bingo in Whitehaven, when a lucky lady won £28,500. Then, last Tuesday, a £23,000 jackpot was scooped at Workington Opera Bingo, another Cumbria […]
Slough Gala Bingo Gallery, New Lost Halls And Club Finder Additions
The exterior of Slough Gala Bingo For those of you with an interest in the halls we feature at the site, I’d like to highlight some of the new galleries and pages recently added. Kicking off are a collection of photographs kindly provided by Charles Jenkins, providing a great record of the decor, fittings and […]
