Lost pub · Botchergate
Buzz Bingo
- Built
- Opened as Gala Bingo in the plaza built in 2008
- Gone
- Closed for good on 3 May 2021
- There now
- Game On!, a family entertainment centre licensed since October 2023
- Address
- 9 Englishgate Plaza
- Where exactly
- On Botchergate. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.
A bingo club with a members' bar, in the same new plaza as Rouge, Ballers and the Las Vegas Strip. It opened as Gala Bingo and became Buzz Bingo in September 2018, when the chain rebranded every club it had. It had its own car park for about a hundred cars, reached from Portland Place.
It very nearly survived. Buzz shut it in July 2020, one of twenty-six clubs the company closed when lockdown pushed it into insolvency. Then a deal was struck with the landlord and it reopened on 1 October 2020. That reprieve lasted seven months: it closed for good on 3 May 2021. Number 9 is now Game On!, a family entertainment centre licensed since October 2023, so the unit is still selling a flutter, just a different one. Carlisle keeps one bingo hall, Opera Bingo on Denton Street, which is in an old cinema and has outlasted the purpose-built one by some margin.
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34 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map