Being as it is Spring, we’ve decided to do a bit of spring cleaning on the site, which has meant creating some new Lost Halls pages to replace the Club Pages of halls that have closed down over the years. It is always sad to find out a club has closed, but, the good news […]
Tag: Lost Halls
Derelict Glasgow Bingo Hall Destroyed
Spotted this story on the BBC earlier about the fire that caused a lot of damage at the derelict County Bingo hall on Eglington Street in Glasgow. The building shut back in 2003 as a bingo hall, and has been disused ever since. The building was on the Buildings At Risk list but unfortunately The […]
The Deal Regent Closes – New Lost Halls Page
I spotted the news story early last week about the closure of the Regent Bingo in Deal, Kent. The club is an independently run one, and has been in the Bingo business since the mid 60s and remarkably, run by the same person since its opening. The club’s managing director Robin Bloom blames the smoking […]
Rank Sees Improved Revenues And No More Closures
An interim trading report from Rank has some good news for the company’s future. It’s showing improved trading figures. According to the report, trading was down on the same period as last year (prior to the introduction of the smoking ban) as was expected. On like-for-like sales there was a drop of 14%, admissions down […]
Another Bingo Hall Lost To Fire
Just a snippet, I spotted news from icRenfrewshire earlier of a major fire at a former Bingo hall in Barrhead. I’m not quite sure when the club shut, but according to the report, The Central Bingo and Social Club had opened in 1970s prior to being a cinema built in the 1930s. Every time one […]
Swindon’s Mecca Bingo Hall Closed
Just a quick mention of the news from This Is Wiltshire about the closure of Swindon’s Mecca Bingo. The club closed on Saturday, much to the dismay of its members who’d set up a petition to try and save the club. Once again, it’s a smaller old style of club that’s suffered, the members’ loss […]
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 […]
Club Closure News
I’ve spotted a couple of news stories the last week about Bingo clubs closing down. The latest is on the Welsh island of Anglesey. The BBC carries a story of the Empire Cinema in Holyhead having closed. Whilst the piece concentrates on the closure of the cinema, the reason for its closure is the earlier […]
Gala To Close Five Bingo Halls
Well, have to say I was shocked when I spotted the news over at The Guardian that Gala Bingo are to close five of their Bingo clubs. It’s the first sign of closures from the UK’s biggest Bingo chain, and it comes just a short while after Gala Coral’s CEO Neil Goulden was quoted as […]
Gala Coral Profits Raise And No Club Closures Expected
News from the FT that Gala Coral have seen a profit rise in its last year of trading. The rises come on the last trading year up to September 2007, so the changes brought in to by the 2005 Gambling Act affecting gaming machines won’t real have bitten in much with this report, but it […]
