The street with 18 betting shops

[Iron]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22934305

'Gamblers crowd around four dark grey machines where they pick from a handful of fixed-odds games.

...

The machines average profits of around £50,000 each a year - £200,000 per shop.'

Jeff

[Groovyelms]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22934305

'Gamblers crowd around four dark grey machines where they pick from a handful of fixed-odds games.

...

The machines average profits of around £50,000 each a year - £200,000 per shop.'

Jeff

might give this trading lark up and move there

[Zapata]

All the ones I walk past seem to be empty. I remember the days you could hardly get through the door, especially when the pubs closed at 3 the bookies were packed.

[LeTiss]

I started my career as a Ladbrokes betting shop manager, so I have some great memories from my shop days.

I sometimes worked in a shop in St Mary's Southampton. It forms part of the red light area, and in the 90's (pre-internet) prostitution was rife down there. We used to get working girls come in the shop looking for punters who wanted to celebrate a winner with a quick leg over!

[Iron]

Did they get many takers?

Jeff

We used to get working girls come in the shop looking for punters who wanted to celebrate a winner with a quick leg over!

[steven1976]

Guess it was letiss that first sparked the idea of "laying a horse".