Today marks a sad day for me here at Playing Bingo, and the end of an era. This will be the last news post I can make via my favourite old blogging platform Blogger.com. They foolishly decided to remove the ability for users like me to publish our blogs to our own self-hosted websites. So, […]
Category: Site News
A Round Of Applause For Brett Please
Well, after two and a half years, our resident Bingo Caller Of The Year Brett Hyrjak has written his last piece for the site. And if I say so myself, what a great piece it is! Full of pictures of Brett’s adventures over the past couple of years writing at the site, and boy has […]
Interview With Simon Collins, Director Of Cashcade Ltd
Following the launch of Posh Bingo last week, I thought it would be a good opportunity to do something I’ve been aiming to do for a while now and catch up with Cashcade’s Simon Collins about the success of Cheeky Bingo. Simon agreed to do an interview for the site, which you can read here. […]
New History Piece Added – The York Clifton
Just a quick note for the history fans out there, Ian Grundy has returned with another Bingo hall history piece for the site, illustrated with his photographs. This time Ian has given us an insight into am independently run hall – The Clifton Bingo Club in York. He covers the building’s early history as a […]
A History Of Bingo In The UK By Carolyn Downs
I’m really pleased to introduce this new piece in the history section of the site – A History Of Bingo In The UK. It replaces my old hobbled together history of Bingo in the UK with a scholarly piece by the historian Carolyn Downs. The piece focuses on the earliest origins of the game and […]
Bingo Babble – New Interviews, Bingo Hall History And Lost Hall
I can’t quite recall who said it, but someone at the 3rd Online Bingo Summit described a number of people as ‘Bingo nerds’. Well, I guess I must be one, as this will be Bingo babble to most people, but I’m actually really excited to be making this post as I’ve got a load of […]
Playing Bingo’s 3rd Online Bingo Summit Coverage
Well, I’ve been busy the last week running through the information I gathered at the 2008 Online Bingo Summit. I attended the event last month in London and took lots of notes which I’ve been shaping it into a number of articles and opinion pieces for the site. You can read all the Bingo Summit […]
Michael Edwards Wins Gala Bingo Caller Of The Year
The grand final of Gala Bingo’s in house calling competition was held yesterday in Birmingham. Seven callers from around the regions of the UK met to contest the title in a special session. For the second year in a row, the title was won by Michael Edwards of the Stratford Gala Bingo. Brett Hyrjak was […]
Interview With Ravi Virpal – Organiser Of The 3rd Online Bingo Summit
I can’t believe how fast time’s going, the 3rd Online Bingo Summit is now less than two months away (17th and 18th June) so if been doing some sorting out this week. My room’s booked so I will there to cover things for this site. As part of the build up to the event, I […]
Lost Bingo Halls And A New Bingo Hall History
I had an idea to do a new section of the site towards the end of last year, and got around to actually doing it this last week. This new section is called Lost Bingo Halls, and the idea is I will over time add new pages, dedicated to those halls that have closed down […]
