Grade-II listed bingo hall to close this weekend

C-Jay Pipe, 22, who has played bingo there several times said: “Every time I’ve been it has been pretty full up in there.

“I’m very surprised actually it’s closing.”

Speaking when the closure was a rumour, Andrew Knutt, chair of Project Gaumont, a co-operative group that wants to take on the lease from Somerset Council, said the potential closure of Mecca Bingo was a “shock” at first.

A petition for the group to reclaim the Mecca Bingo Building in Taunton has now been signed by more than 2,700 people.