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. […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The second Lee-West Lanes centre to open was the 20-lane bowl in Bedford which opened in October […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The Fairlanes Bowl in Northampton, the last centre to be opened in the Fairlanes chain, opened on […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The Top Rank Savoy Bowl situated on the Promenade in central Blackpool opened on 30th September 1964. […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The 32-lane Brunswick equipped bowl, the 20th of the Top Rank chain, opened in a blaze of […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The 28-lane AMF equipped centre, the 13th centre in the ABC bowling operation enjoyed a star-studded opening […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge On 12th August 1964 the privately owned 10-lane Brunswick equipped bowl opened in Vernon Street, Preston. Research […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The ten-lane, privately owned, Fraser Bowl opened on 6th August 1964 and was fitted with lanes and […]
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 […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The 32-lane Excel Bowl Sunderland opened on 30th June 1964. As was standard for Excel Bowling the […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The building which housed this small bowling centre started life as the Tower Cinema which opened on […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The second bowling centre to open in Aberdeen within a short space of time in 1964 was […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge When the 32 lane Top Rank Bowl opened in Pershore Street, Birmingham it became the sixteenth centre […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The sixteen lane Granite Bowl was opened by a former Aberdonian, John Innes and his Canadian brother-in-law […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The first bowling centre to open in Portsmouth was the 24 lane AMF equipped Ambassador Bowl which […]
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 […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge The 24 lane Top Rank Bowl opened on 21st March 1964 as part of the new Bargates […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Universal Bowl King Street Leigh Lancashire Universal Bowling opened, what was its second centre, in Leigh […]
History of Tenpin Bowling in the UK – 1964 By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Moving into the fifth year of Tenpin Bowling […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Fairlanes Bowl Sicey Avenue Firth Park Sheffield The last but one of the Fairlanes bowling centres […]
Over the last couple of years we have been posting a history of centre openings since the very start of Tenpin bowling in the UK. […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Excel Bowl Canterbury Avenue Bradford 5 Yorkshire The 36-lane Excel Bowl in Bradford was the 8th […]
By Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association President John Ashbridge Excel Bowl Westgate Road Newcastle-on-Tyne The building which became the Excel Bowl in 1963 was located […]
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