London Go Centre
London Go Centre opened in March 1975 and closed on 31 October 1978. It was located in West Hampstead.
The center was open from midday to 11PM every day of the year but 25 December. Stuart Dowsey, of Dowsey Games, subsidized the Centre and paid the salaries of its two employees (Himself and David Mitchell?). Iwamoto Kaoru provided some measure of support to the center. Membership peaked at around 250 players.
The Centre ran a championship tournament each year. The winners were:
1976 Y. Ohtsuka and S. Godfrey 1977 A. Ito 1978 Jim Bates
Strangely enough Iwamoto Kaoro visited the centre for 2 weeks in August, just before it closed. At that stage, there appeared to have been discussions to move the Centre to a larger venue where more members could be attracted. For whatever reasons, funds for this were not forthcoming, and the centre was forced to close.
What became Central London Go Club was the replacement to the London Go Centre. The initial move was to the Inter-Varsity Club in London, from where it migrated to various other locations as time went by.