There’s been movement in the retail bingo over the last couple of years that the site here fell quiet, and I’ve spotted a number of clubs in our club finder who’ve changed hands / owners whilst checking through. As there’s no central place to check on who runs which bingo clubs here in the UK, […]
Category: Land Bingo
New History Piece By Dr. Carolyn Downs
Those of you out there that enjoy a good delve into history and culture of UK bingo are in for a treat. The historian Dr. Carolyn Downs is back with another history piece, this time taking a look at bingo’s famous number names, their origins and meanings, and their place in the English language. The […]
A Full House For Bingo Player
The News And Star newspaper recently ran a story title “Cumbrian Woman ‘Wins’ A Husband At Bingo” about a player who bagged herself a hubby thanks to a visit to her local bingo hall. This is winning with a difference and there’s now a full house for this bingo player as she has two children […]
World Wide Underground Rebel Bingo Club
The Underground Rebel Bingo Club Feels like an age ago that I last spoke of the Underground Rebel Bingo Club, and how retail bingo could take some pointers from their anarchic, non-traditional take on bingo. I was searching around for something else and our paths crossed again, and I was amazed to see how far […]
Schoolgirl Giggles Over Bald Knob Bingo
A lot of my free time, and even some of the time that should be spent doing other things, is spent looking for all things bingo related and some of the things I find literally have me giggling like a school girl. The latest was a new piece from Post Crescent that was simply titled […]
Tax Changes And A New Look Bingo Association Site
The dust might have had time to settle on Tuesday’s Budget, but the bingo industry is likely to be ruing the changes made to the tax regime for a long time to come. Most notable is Machine Games Duty (MGD) which will be hitting operators in their most profitable area of business, a further tax […]
Some Highlights From The Last Two Years
Whilst it’s great to be back, there’s a lot of stuff that we’ve missed the last couple of years in the bingo world. I thought I’d mention a few things that have struck me in my absence, but that I’ve not had the platform here to celebrate / moan about. Here’s a few things that […]
Back In Business, The Return Of Playing Bingo
You’d be forgiven for thinking the site had gone the way of the dodo the last couple of years. I’m as shocked it’s taken as long myself. The old blog shut down in April 2010, due to Blogger removing support for FTP publishing. My aim was to take the opportunity to build a new blog, […]
New Hall History Piece – The Kingston Gala
After a long break, Ian Grundy has returned with another fascinating insight into a grand old bingo hall, illustrated with Ian’s wonderful photographs. This latest piece looks at the development of the monstrously huge Kinston-Upon-Thames Gala Bingo hall. The hall started out as a church and was a theatre / cinema for a time before […]
Battlefield Bingo From Gala Bingo
If you’ve read our scholarly and in-depth article on the early history of Bingo in the UK, like myself you were no doubt surprised to learn that bingo was played by British troops in the trenches of World War I. The game proved and excellent morale booster and social event for the entrenched soldiers, despite […]
