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A Tenpin site in Gloucester with the former branding.

Tenpin Ltd (stylized "tenpin"), is one of the largest tenpin bowling brands in the United Kingdom, consisting of 48[1] bowling centres ranging from 12 to 36 lanes (depending on the width of the centre), which often have on-site restaurants and bars.

The brand was formerly owned by Essenden Ltd,[2] now Ten Entertainment Group plc[3] who are a member of the Tenpin Bowling Proprietors Association (TBPA). The company is headquartered in Cranfield, Bedfordshire.

Operations

Many centres also include amusement arcades with attractions such as Sector 7 laser tag, table tennis, and air hockey. Many existing sites were formerly known as Megabowl until around 2008–09.[4] Tenpin carried out a rebranding of all sites during the late 2010s.[5]

Tenpin sites are also used as venues for local and national ten-pin league competitions.

List of current locations

List of closed/sold off locations

  • Chester (closed 10 October 2013 along with the Cineworld 6-screen multiplex cinema located adjacent to the centre. Both complexes on-site have since been demolished, and replaced with an Asda supermarket in 2014)
  • Newport (closed as Megabowl on 22 August 2005. and left empty with advertising and external signage still visible until 2016. The building is now a Home Bargains store, gym and ENERGI trampoline park)
  • Maidenhead (closed 26 August 2018 and land returned to the owners, the council, who demolished for car parking space)
  • Tower Park Poole (Now operated by Hollywood Bowl)
  • Bournemouth (closed as a Super Bowl and now operates as a lasertag arena)
  • Hull (Closed as Megabowl in the late 1990s)
  • Streatham (Closed as Megabowl in 2006)
  • Redditch (Closed as Megabowl in 2000, demolished and the site used for housing)
  • Sunderland (Became MFA Bowl, then Disco Bowl, now "Sunderland Bowl")
  • Stevenage (Formally a GX Super Bowl. Closed early 2000s, demolished and became a Currys PC World on the Roaring Meg Retail Park)
  • Bristol (Formally a Megabowl. Demolished and turned into flats)
  • Cardiff (Formally a Megabowl. Land sold and the same unit is now a self-storage unit)

References

  1. ^ "About Us | Tenpin".
  2. ^ The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/essenden-tenpin-deal-is-a-lucky-strike-30n9wlzqqrc
  3. ^ Investor's Chronicle https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/comment/2019/06/10/ten-entertainment-group-a-good-business-at-a-cheap-price/
  4. ^ Kribensis https://cms.esi.info/Media/documents/Kribe_Constructfitout_ML.pdf
  5. ^ Financial Times https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1323-13192504-1H7NG6G3U9OO2B1IHC4DRN69C8