For the most part, the early 60’s bowling news came from Tenpin Pictorial and the old broadsheet format and size. Sometime in the late sixties Strike Out arrived in an A4 size magazine format. This […]
Way back in the day, my local bowl, Top Rank Bowl Chatham, was a popular venue-out for bored teens. We didn’t bowl that often as it was cheaper to just hang out with a coffee […]
Where else could the Silver Anniversary edition of the AMF Bowling World Cup be held but at its birthplace? Stillorgan Bowl was much bigger now, thanks to the addition of more lanes and a big […]
String , String, String, Sick of hearing about string met most days when the announcement came of the famous Airport bowl going to string machines. Cue a welcome message via our Facebook page… “Hi, I’m […]
Charrington Bowl Tolworth had their very own magazine in the late 70’s and early 80’s We are unsure how many issues it ran for but thanks to Tolworth bowler and Talktenpin Owner Stuart Watson we […]
How did people learn to bowl in the 1960’s? Thanks to the USA, there were multiple booklets frim the ABC, AMF, Brunswick and more. Did anyone have this one?
Back in the early Sixties as bowling arrived in the UK, AMF produced a series of Introduction booklets and leaflets educating the country to this new leisure activity that from the start also promoted the […]
by Helen Tamblyn-Saville I’ve been following the comments about string pin bowling with interest this week, following the announcement about Airport Bowl and then the statement the BTBA released today. I’ve been on the fence […]
by Talktenpin’s Dom Gall Asking a BTBA Chairman for an interview was not always a fun thing to do for me. Tried with the last one and never got the answers back. This time I […]
We love old bowling stories, we like to know what happened in the past. When someone contacts us and says ” I have a story of my time in bowling.” We are interested. That is […]
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