StevenJ wrote:how do you people get to look around places of interest like this?
I'm sure that most people here would give their eye teeth for a last look before the inevitable fire..........
In this specific case, Gala Bingo opened it up for a few interested potential purchasers to have a poke around, and one of those was someone we know who is sympathetic to our cause and knew how keen we were to look around!
As for other such places, the best results generally come from just asking, which is sometimes effective in even the most surprising of cases! As I'm sure others on these forums will testify, though, there are many alternatives, utilising guile, cunning, friendly councillors, a giant pair of balls sometimes, and maybe a liberal interpretation of certain grey areas of the law...