Date of closure: TBC
Address (for reference only):
Independent Club
Skipton Road
Harrogate
HG1 4LF
At the moment we do not have details of the events that led up to, or any of the circumstances surrounding the closure of the Lucky Numbers Harrogate. If you have any details that may assist us, and you would like to share them with our readers, we would love to hear from you. If you let us know what you know, we will put the details online with your name credited (if you wish, or we can credit the article as anonymous). You will be doing a service to the bingo community and posterity by helping us record details of all Britain’s bingo clubs and halls. Thank you.
By Gareth Whieldon (February 2013)
Update
It looks like the premises will never return to bingo as development work has started on the land. The location will become luxury duplex apartments which will be ready early in 2017. As a nod to history the complex will be named Bartle News, the Bartle family having run the bingo hall, so at least a bingo related memory will remain. No reference however will be made to the previous usage of the venue as a small provincial theatre. The Palace Theatre, having only seating for 600 patrons opened in 1914. Small it may have been, but it had an orchestra pit and a deep stage. In 1947 it became the Ritz Cinema after movies had taken over the stage over the decades. The cinema closed in 1962 and was one of the first in the wave of cinema to bingo conversions in the early sixties.
By Gareth Whieldon (December 2016)
