Firestorm
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Essenden will close the bowling alley next year if they can't find a buyer (todays echo)
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Napster
No ⭐
Sounds like a plea for someone to buy it.
BLUEBLOOD
Moderator of Moderators
I got my best ever 245 including 7 successive strikes in that venue
Pubey
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Nice one. I think you've reached the stage where you can put the kiddy bumpers down now mate.
BLUEBLOOD
Moderator of Moderators
You know i could be a bowling bore and say its actually harder with the bumpers up as its a distraction
but i won't :dunce:
Been on the cards and Tenpin served their 6 months notice in August so it all finishes in February.
As a league bowler of 20 years it's a travesty that a town the size of Southend can't support a bowling alley. If the council are serious in their ambitions of achieving City status they can't let things like this happen. I suspect and hope that a combination of some form of concession from the Council along with a company like AMF waiting till the last minute to get optimum value will see it saved. But who knows.
Unfortunately it was years of mismanagement from Tempin that killed it. They ejected 5 leagues from the centre (including my own) which is basically akin to burning money - my league filled 18 lanes for 9 months of the year with a high percentage of those present purchasing plenty from the bar. They decided they didn't want us and basically told us to leave in very rude terms as they wanted to host 'corporate nights' on Thursdays. It bombed badly and when they asked us back we refused. We now reside at the alley in Leigh which unfortunately will also be disappearing as planning permission has been granted on the land to develop flats.
Sad times for the bowlers among us!
PS. I only ever remember Blueblood hitting about 45.....
As a league bowler of 20 years it's a travesty that a town the size of Southend can't support a bowling alley. If the council are serious in their ambitions of achieving City status they can't let things like this happen. I suspect and hope that a combination of some form of concession from the Council along with a company like AMF waiting till the last minute to get optimum value will see it saved. But who knows.
Unfortunately it was years of mismanagement from Tempin that killed it. They ejected 5 leagues from the centre (including my own) which is basically akin to burning money - my league filled 18 lanes for 9 months of the year with a high percentage of those present purchasing plenty from the bar. They decided they didn't want us and basically told us to leave in very rude terms as they wanted to host 'corporate nights' on Thursdays. It bombed badly and when they asked us back we refused. We now reside at the alley in Leigh which unfortunately will also be disappearing as planning permission has been granted on the land to develop flats.
Sad times for the bowlers among us!
PS. I only ever remember Blueblood hitting about 45.....
Thorpe Groyney
Open your mind
They obviously can't compete with bowlingo at £1 a game a little further along the seafront.
BLUEBLOOD
Moderator of Moderators
I used to bowl in the Tuesday League and that was eventually merged with the Wednesday players again, as B points out they were only interested in corporate knobs who would more or less trash the place, when the recession hit the corps stopped going
Napster
No ⭐
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