Princess Bingo is the last standing bingo hall in Hamilton. It’s located on the mountain on Fennel East, and is a relic from the faded era of previously smoke filled and packed bingo halls; a friend to many lonely hearts and wishful dreamers.

• Inver Grove Heights Police Department. Law Enforcement Agency. Paul Bingo Palace. Happy Friday Bingo at 2 pm & 7 pm 2 pm- 50% at Admissions 7 pm- $50 King 2 free packs $30 Princess 1 free pack NightCap following our 7 pm session.
• VanDuzer said the one way to save Princess is to upgrade the Hall to include eBingo machines, also known as cGaming. He asked the committee to consider putting forward a motion to City Council at its meeting on September 15 providing the City’s permission that the Princess Bingo Sponsors Association and the hall be able to participate in cGaming.

May 21, 2020 - 22:30 BST Danielle Stacey It was a full house as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge turned bingo callers during a video call to residents at the Shire Hall Care House in Cardiff on.

Up until a few years ago there were two bingo halls in the city, but when Delta Bingo (in the former Kresge’s bargain department store) closed in the winter of 2014, Princess became the last.

Princess Bingo is a clean and well maintained hall with staff and patrons that are friendly and willing to lend a hand to novice bingo goers.

If you’re new to the bingo scene, buy some dabbers at any dollar store before heading to the hall. It’ll save you a buck or two. Feel free to also bring some of your own snacks, but if you don’t, fear not, there’s a snack bar packed to satisfy any junky cravings (totally appropriate for bingo). It’s cash only (with an ATM on site) to buy your bingo book, which is just a collection of bingo cards. Be sure to check their bingo schedule before heading over. Each program is about two hours, so if you arrive in the middle of one you’ll have a long time to wait until your cards start being called. In between regular rounds there are bonus sessions; don’t forget to buy these cards for special jackpots (they are bought from a separate counter). If you don’t buy the cards for the special jackpots then there’ll be a long wait before the caller resumes back to the regular bingo.

I’d only ever played bingo once before at Delta Bingo several years ago, and had it on my list to try out Hamilton’s last remaining hall. I went with a couple of friends on a Friday night. Bingo books were $10 with bonus cards costing about $1-2 each. There was a helpful pair of expert bingo goers at the neighbouring table that gave us welcome tips and pointers when we were looking dumbfounded and lost. A little after midnight, when our eyes were starting to get heavy and blurring numbers, we decided to call it a night. Before leaving, we passed on our unfinished cards to the friendly pair of women that helped guide us through our intro into bingo. We didn’t win any jackpots… this time.

It was definitely a neat experience. There was something kinda satisfying about the physical act of dabbing out the numbers as they were called and watching the ink soak through the thin paper of the bingo card. We had a pretty big collection of saturated and brightly coloured cards all dabbed up by the end of the night. We admired them for a bit before lamenting our losses and tossing them in the bin.

With a push for these old halls to move towards entirely digital bingo gaming foregoing the traditional paper and ink dabbers for electronic screens, I’d imagine that places like this won’t be around for long.

Hours:
Daily 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.

Princess Bingo
300 Fennell East
905-574-6466
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Belfast, BT4 1AG

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The New Princess Palace opened on 29th July 1912, right across the road from the Princess Cinema that had opened two years earlier! The subsequent confusion led to the earlier cinema being known as the Old Princess Cinema, while the newer arrival became known as the New Princess Palace. The owner was Ferris Pounds, manager of the Picturedrome. A striking feature was the windmill-like central tower, lined with vertical electric lights. The architect’s drawings show a set of sails attached to the tower, but they were never installed. The cinema had a 30 feet wide proscenium, the stage was 20 feet deep, and there were two dressing rooms.

The New Princess Palace closed on 2nd April 1960. In November 2008, when I photographed it, the windmill tower had been removed and the truncated building was occupied by the Three Two One arcade, cafe and bingo club.

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