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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By John Ashbridge, Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President The Coatham Bowl in Redcar (also known as the Redcar Bowl) was opened by Central & District […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge What were to be the last three bowling centres in the Excel Bowling estate all opened in […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Moving into the sixth year of Tenpin Bowling in the UK the development continued but started to […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The last centre to open in 1964 was the 26-lane AMF equipped centre in Birmingham Road Wolverhampton […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The second Magnet centre to open in November was, even larger than the Barnsley centre, when the […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The 28-lane Brunswick equipped Top Rank Bowl Doncaster opened on Monday 30th November 1964. Very little is […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The first of two Magnet centres to be opened in the same month was the 32-lane AMF […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge It is not entirely clear of the exact opening date of this centre which is believed to […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The first tenpin bowling centre to open in the Lincolnshire town of Scunthorpe was the 18 lane […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The 21st bowling centre in the Top Rank operation was introduced to the citizens of Derby on […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge One of the largest bowling centres in West London to open was the 32-lane Ambassador Bowl, Hounslow. […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The sixteenth centre in the Excel chain to open was the 26-lane AMF equipped centre in Headingley, […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The fifteenth centre in the Excel chain opened in Walkden, close to Bolton, on 8th October 1964. […]
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