Tenpin Ltd
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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, air hockey, karaoke and escape rooms. 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
- Acton
- Bexleyheath
- Birmingham (Star City)
- Blackburn
- Bristol
- Camberley
- Cambridge
- Cardiff
- Castleford
- Cheshire Oaks
- Chichester
- Colchester
- Coventry
- Crewe
- Croydon
- Derby
- Doncaster
- Dudley
- Eastbourne
- Edinburgh (Fountain Park)
- Exeter
- Falkirk
- Feltham
- Glasgow (Braehead)
- Gloucester
- Harlow
- Ipswich
- Kingston upon Thames
- Leamington Spa
- Leeds
- Luton
- Manchester (Parrs Wood)
- Manchester (Printworks)
- Northampton
- Nottingham
- Plymouth Barbican
- Rochdale
- Southampton
- Southport
- Stafford
- Stoke
- Swansea
- Swindon
- Telford
- Walsall
- Warrington
- Worcester
- Wrexham
- York
List of closed or sold off locations
- Chester - closed on 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 on 22 August 2005 as Megabowl 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 local 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 during the late 1990s as Megabowl
- Streatham - Closed in August 2006 as Megabowl, then demolished in May 2015. The site is now used as housing.
- Redditch - Closed in 2000 as Megabowl, then demolished and used for housing.
- Sunderland - Became MFA Bowl, then Disco Bowl, now "Sunderland Bowl".
- Stevenage - Closed in the early 2000s as a GX Super Bowl then demolished and became a Currys PC World on the Roaring Meg Retail Park.
- Bristol - Closed as a Megabowl, then demolished and turned into flats.
- Cardiff - Closed as a Megabowl. Land sold and the same unit is now a self-storage unit.
- Edinburgh (Fort Kinnaird) — Closed during the late 2000s, then demolished along with the adjacent cinema. Land later redeveloped into an extension to the Fort Kinnaird retail park, including new restaurants and a new Odeon cinema, completed in 2015.
References
- ^ "About Us | Tenpin".
- ^ The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/essenden-tenpin-deal-is-a-lucky-strike-30n9wlzqqrc
- ^ Investor's Chronicle https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/comment/2019/06/10/ten-entertainment-group-a-good-business-at-a-cheap-price/
- ^ Kribensis https://cms.esi.info/Media/documents/Kribe_Constructfitout_ML.pdf
- ^ Financial Times https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1323-13192504-1H7NG6G3U9OO2B1IHC4DRN69C8