Ceremony Press
New Western Bingo opened on Eyre Avenue in 1964. Located in what was once the Palace Picture Hall, which was opened in 1912 and in 1964 underwent a conversion to the independent bingo club in Armley, Leeds.
In October 2016 a fire broke out in a neighbouring sauna and spread to the bingo hall roof. The Club was subsequently demolished, and there are now plans to build housing on the land where it once stood.
Prior to the fire, Stafford visited the Bingo Hall in 2013 over the course of a year photographed the hall, its regular members and employees. This book is a collection of images before the fire, a memorial to the lost Bingo hall and a celebration of its original members & employees.
Sophie Stafford is a photographer hailing from Hull, East Yorkshire, who currently resides in London. She is keen on exploring narrative that centre around the significance of safeguarding cultural heritage.
