Following on from the main Nostalgia page, where we describe the history of the ever popular game bingo, we take a look here at the participants who play everything from billiards, shove-ha’penny, bingo and other indoor games such as draughts.
1. Men, women and youngsters are assembled around a table inside the Youth Club of St Anne’s Church, Wycombe Marsh. March 1956 Different indoor games, including draughts, were arranged on the table:
2. People are watching Arthur Askey play shove-ha’penny in the Magpie pub, Heath End Rd, Flackwell Heath, 1954:
3. Here bingo is being played at a fete organised by the Bookerhill Social Club and held at Park Farm, Chapel Lane, Sands in August 1952:
4. Held in The Guildhall, High Wycombe, the attractions at this Red Cross Bazaar included bingo, November 1955:
5. Prizewinners of the High Wycombe and District Billiards Association at their social evening in the Coach and Horses pub in Easton St, May 1953:
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