Excel Bowl – UK Tenpin Hall of Fame

History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 110 – Excel Piccadilly Bowl Shaftesbury Avenue London W1

09/03/2022 Dom 0

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 108 – Excel Bowl Tolworth Roundabout Kingston-By-Pass Tolworth Surrey

10/02/2022 Dom 0

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 101 – Excel Bowl Bitterne Road Bitterne Southampton

22/06/2021 Dom 0

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 80 – Excel Bowl Grant Street Cleethorpes Lincolnshire

20/04/2020 Dom 0

By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The fourteenth centre in the Excel estate to open was the 32-lane bowl in Grant Street, Cleethorpes […]

History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 71 – Excel Bowl Merrion Centre Leeds

10/02/2020 Dom 0

By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Excel Bowling made history once again when, on 25th March 1964, it opened the 42 lane Merrion […]

History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 55 – Excel Bowl Caversham Road Reading

16/09/2019 Dom 0

By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Excel Bowl Caversham Road Reading Situated in one of the best UK bowling centre locations, the […]

History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK Part 53 – Excel Bowl Union Street Torquay

19/08/2019 Dom 0

By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Excel Bowl Union Street Torquay Excel Bowling Ltd continued its expansion when, on 27th August 1963 […]