2024 End of Year Rankings
We are now at the start of 2025 and here are our Hall of Fame rankings for 2024 and the 2020’s. Many events are on […]
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Three inducted into the UK Tenpin Hall of Fame in 2024
Lol Ellis and Verity Crawley are to be inducted into the UK Tenpin Hall of Fame, The Men’s and Women’s awards are kindly sponsored by […]
2023 End of Year Rankings
2023 returned to some sort of normality with many bowlers competing on a regular basis at local, national and international level. Many events were on […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 117 – Magnet Bowl London Road Peterborough Northamptonshire
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President Little of the history of this centre has been recorded but it is known that it opened […]
All medals won by Senior Team England at International Level
A great piece of work by Geoff Brown assisted by Dave Steiner and Keith Hodge, with a little help from the UK Tenpin Hall of […]
Four inducted into the UK Tenpin Hall of Fame in 2023
Nick Froggatt and Angie Brown are to be inducted into the UK Tenpin Hall of Fame, The men’s and Women’s awards are kindly sponsored by […]
European Senior Championships (ESC)
A new event for Seniors with the first championships held in Vienna Austria in 2020. European nations sending four Male and four Female bowlers to […]
2022 End of Year Rankings
“The last three years have been very difficult for everyone and Tenpin Bowling has slowly recovered during this time. A desire from bowlers to compete […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 116 –Universal Bowl Queens Road Sheffield
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The 30-lane Universal Bowl in Queens Road, Sheffield, the third bowling centre to open in the City […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 115 – Olympia Bowl Town Centre East Kilbride Fife
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The Olympia Bowl, tenpin bowling centre was situated in the Olympia building beneath the Ballroom. It is […]
Two legends of Yorkshire inducted into the UK Tenpin Hall of Fame in Barnsley
In 2013 our Hall of fame became a reality when we inducted the first four bowlers at the Weber Cup in Barnsley. A big crowd […]
NEW ONLINE DATABASE launched by the UK Tenpin Hall of Fame and sponsored by QubicaAMF
The United Kingdom Tenpin Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the release of the new updated online database of the main UK achievements in […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 114 – Coatham Bowling Ltd Newcomen Terrace Redcar Yorkshire
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The Coatham Bowl in Redcar (also known as the Redcar Bowl) was opened by Central & District […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 113 – Dunstable bowl
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The history of this centre, if it actually existed, is sketchy to say the least. It is […]
Hall of Fame Database – Offline version
Database and Rankings Version 9, April 2022 We published Version 8 in January 2022 to bring us up to date following 2021. Version 9 is […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 112 – Top Rank Central Drive Blackpool
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The last but one bowling centre, as part of the Top Rank estate to open, was the […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 111 – Barrow Bowl The Strand Barrow-in Furness Lancashire
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The 10-lane AMF equipped Barrow Bowl opened on 29th September 1965 by Barrow Mayor Tommy Taylor. The […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 110 – Excel Piccadilly Bowl Shaftesbury Avenue London W1
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The final centre in the Excel chain to open was the Piccadilly Bowl in London’s Shaftesbury Avenue […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 109 – Universal Bowl High Street Crawley
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The 24-lane AMF equipped bowl, the fourth centre in the Universal chain opened on 23rd June 1965. […]
Three more inducted in the UK Tenpin Hall of Fame in 2022
Wayne Greenall and Fiona Banks are to be inducted into the UK Tenpin Hall of Fame, The men’s and Women’s awards are kindly sponsored by […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 108 – Excel Bowl Tolworth Roundabout Kingston-By-Pass Tolworth Surrey
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The penultimate centre to open in the Excel chain was the 32-lane centre located alongside of the […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 107 – Magnet Bowl The Pithay Bristol
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The second Magnet Bowl to open during 1965 became the fourth in the Magnet estate when is […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 106 – Universal Bowl Seacroft Lane Seacroft Leeds 14 Yorkshire
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The next centre to open in 1965 was another in the Universal operation, this time the 24-lane […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 105 – Universal Bowl Main Street Rotherham Yorkshire
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The second centre in the Universal Bowling operation was the 24-lane centre in Main Street, Rotherham which […]
Donna Ellis and Steve Thornton receive UK Tenpin Hall of Fame player awards sponsored by Storm Products
Lockdowns and restrictions delayed this years presentations and awards and were sent to our amazing inductees instead of the usual Weber Cup presentations or at […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 104 – Magnet Bowl Mill Road Cambridge
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President After a somewhat slow start in the bowling business, with just two centres opened in 1964 the […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 103 – Granada Belle Vue Bowl Hyde Road Gorton Manchester
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The 32-lane Granada Bowl at Belle Vue, Manchester is believed to have been the first centre to […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 102 – Top Rank Bowl Gladstone Terrace Gateshead Co Durham
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The Top Rank Bowl in Gateshead opened on 19th May 1965 and was equipped with 24 lanes […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 101 – Excel Bowl Bitterne Road Bitterne Southampton
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The Excel Bowl, Bitterne was the second tenpin bowling centre in Southampton when it opened on 4th […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 100 – Ambassador Lanes High Street Edgeware Middlesex
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The eighth centre in the Ambassador chain of centres was the 32-lane centre in Edgeware which opened […]