Opened as the Woodz in c1969 and situated inside the then new Ambassador Bowling Lanes on the seafront - now of course AMF.

In the early 2000s, when AMF was taken over by Bourne Leisure, the partition walls separating the bar from the lanes were removed and the area made open plan, presumably to attract more customers. Previously, the partitions were designed to look like the external facade of a pub, with the name Woodz over double doors leading into the bar.

Currently the bowling alley is known as Hollywood Bowl. We don't yet know if it has a working bar.

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