Money won is twice as sweet as money earned!
Bingo Tips
Image by phill.d
I’m guessing this old Casino sign predates 1982. Glen Casino closed in 1982.
A new owner re-opened the premises in 1990 as Walkers Bingo hall in 1990.
The Glen first opened as a Casino in 1963, It proudly advertised Bingo and Fast, Exciting, Thrilling legalite Roulette direct from the Continent’

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned!
*The colour of money*

A real time capsule cinema hides away in the higher reaches of the Glen Royal building in Shipley. The Glen Royal closed as a cinema in 1962, It was to reopen as the Glen casino in 1963. Many alterations were made to the building over the years. Suspended ceilings were added, these effectively hid away the original features of this purpose built cinema.

The upper circle and seats remain intact above the false ceilings.
Dusty Art Deco seats remain untouched since 1962. Kalee projectors, reels of old films, 1960′s paintwork, and other relics are to be found up high in the Glen Royal.

The Shipley Picture House Company opened this state ot the art 1200 seater cinema on the 5th September 1932. An unusual feature of the auditorium were five large windows facing south and overlooking Briggate each with internal geared shutters which could be opened to allow "the entire building to be flooded with sunlight. The Glenroyal was fitted with the American designed Western Electric Sound System, the latest Kalee rear shutter projectors were installed.

The Glen building finally closed it’s doors as Kings Bingo on January 30th 2005.
The cinema has remained closed since then, sadly the vandals have been in at some point doing there worst. False ceilings have been pulled down, holes punched in walls, burst water pipes, tables and chairs tipped over, and grafitti in the bingo hall.
Cinemas are built with very few windows in them. Thankfully the Vandals have been limited to areas with natural light. this has kept the mindless idiots away from the pitch black old cinema, and projection room areas. The best bits remain virtually unscathed for the explorer with torch power :-)

An abandoned cinema always seem to have a ghost story associated with it. The Glen Royal didn’t break with tradition. Apparently a lady ghost was frequently seen hurrying towards the front where the screen used to be. We didn’t see a ghost that night, just a stray Tomcat who had found a sneaky way in to the building. His eyes lit up in the beam of the torch enough to make us jump. He seemed to have great hunting prowess too, many a headless pigeon littered the floor. With a flick of the tail, he was up and away behind the proscenium, never to be seen, or heard again that night.

I’m not quiet sure how a state of the art cinema managed to only stay open for 30 years. The early 60′s seems an early era for it to close to me. It was well before the masses owned a T.V .

The final films to be shown on Saturday the 8th December 1962 were.
”The Loudest Whisper” Starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Maclaine and James Garner.
And
”Gun Street” Starring James Brown, Jean Willes and John Clarke.

© phill.d
All my work is © Copyright. No unathorized use allowed. See here for details.

Online bingo games is of great fun and is becoming more and more popular all over the world.There are many online bingo sites which will provide enough bingo tips and bingo guide to help players with their interested games.At there,gambling guide with gambling news, tips, strategies and articles from the gambling and gaming industry experts can obviously bring you extensive rules and strategy on all casino games, then you can receive more and more gambling experience among the gamblers. No bingo website is complete nowadays without the chat feature.

In fact, if you check out any bingo site today, you will find more people chatting than playing. It is difficult to understand whether the chat is a feature of the bingo game or the bingo is a feature of the chat. When you register on a bingo site, you are asked to choose a room where you would like to play in. This is quite akin to an online chat website. You could say that the bingo is the only additional feature.

But there is definitely one important difference. And that is – you do play bingo here. The very fact that you play bingo makes it a different experience. Combining chatting with bingo is really multiplying the fun several-fold. When you check out any online for bingo, you will find the chat feature. It does not matter whether it is 90 ball bingo or 75 ball bingo. Based on what kinds of bingo are being played, there are different kinds of bingo chat sites. Or rather, there are different chat rooms because both forms of bingo are usually found on the same site. For example, there may be different chat rooms for 90 ball bingo and 75 ball bingo.

There may also be a different chat room for speed bingo and so on. It is not just about the kind of bingo that is being played. The kind of people playing will differentiate the bingo room too. Hence, you may have a bingo chat site that caters to young girls, a bingo chat site that caters to working women and a bingo chat site that caters to elderly folk.

If you get online and check out some of the most famous bingo sites like biggestbingo.co.uk and bingofabolous.com, you will certainly find a chat room that will hold your interests. These sites also have the auto daubing feature which helps you to concentrate completely on chat as your game is automatically going on. So what use is chatting when you are playing bingo? There are limitless uses, actually.

You get all the benefits of general chatting. You can make friends, exchange ideas, crib about other players, discuss what you had for breakfast and talk on whatever you like. But the biggest advantage is, you can talk bingo! This is what truly fascinates and attracts bingo fans to the bingo chat sites. This is where they can connect with other bingo players of the world and even learn some strategies to play bingo. Yes, there are strategies for bingo, which you can find out through these websites.

People also find other amazing places where they can play bingo through these chat features. If you want to make your casino gambling experience the most enjoyable possible, you’d better check more casino reviews and gambling guide for online casino and those gambling directory of online casinos, free poker games, online bingo sites and other casino style games.And if you have only been playing bingo till you, it is time you experienced bingo with chat. There’s a whole new world of amusement waiting for you on the Internet in the form of bingo chatting!

 

Tagged with: • •

Filed under: Bingo

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!