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Streatham Megabowl, London March 2014 (Visited Jan 2014 )

sentinel

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Hi Guy's

Visited this place back in Jan with The_Raw and a non member.

History

Streatham MegaBowl was formerly the Gaumont Palace cinema and opened in March 1932. Gaumont was a chain of cinemas which never really made it and was bought by Odeon. In July 1944 it was damaged by a German V1 rocket. In 1961 it closed as a cinema and the interior was reconstructed into bowling alleys over two levels, opening as the largest in Europe in January 1962. As a cinema it was not missed. There were others close by and the interior was described as having acoustic problems and echoes. A Lazer Quest was added at an upper level in later years before the whole place closed in early 2008. Since then there have been talks of redevelopment, but little has been confirmed.

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And Finally watch out for your shoes if The_Raw is about, this still makes me feel sick to this day.

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Haha wicked mate, dem shoes :eek:

 

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It was funny you running upstairs to get the shoes, then getting then having the wrong size, talk about crap customer service, someone should complain aswell that the cleaner isn't doing the job properly

 

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This was The _Raw putting these on, it was rank thinking about how long they had been there

 

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I hope you sprayed them 1st :p , cool shots quite enjoy a game of bowling

 

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Superb! It's a fun splore is this, we had a good giggle here! Thanks for sharing :)

 

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Not a bad place for the roof tops but a bloody proper mess inside lol.

Get that shoe off for gods sake you will get bunions and foot rot and the Police will sniff you out (y)

 

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That was a nice little mooch that place, nice photos =]

 
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