Local press publications usually take pride in representing the local perspective on events. They focus on how changes affect real people at the grass roots level. Although general news is slowly going online, local hard copy publications are as healthy as ever, because people like to hear about what is going on immediately around them, and this makes papers sell.
When bingo news hits the papers it is always important, as bingo halls have always been a source of community, and more important to some, jobs. When a hall closes it can have quite an effect on the local community, and very often the press is a medium for local people to express their sense of loss.
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Press Clippings Of Local Bingo Themed News
Announcement of the closure of a cinema to be reopened as a bingo hall.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
The decisions that lead to the closure of the Hove cinema.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
More on the lead up to the closure of the Hove cinema.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
Bingo hall’s imminent closure is announced.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
The demolition of a much loved theatre is announced in the local press.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
When it actually happens the press are there to record it.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
Kettering Granada’s conversion to a bingo hall is announced.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
Closure of Northampton’s Odeon is reported.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
The conversion of the Odeon becomes public knowledge.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
Kettering’s Picturedome will not be converted to a bingo hall.
Press Cutting courtesy of Paul Bland.
Article from the East London Advertiser (May 12 1961), covering the opening of Standard Bingo in Goldsmith Row, just off Hackney Road (E2).
Press Cutting courtesy of Helen Fox.
