A Cliftonville venue that offered boules, axe throwing and street food has announced its closure.
Margate Leisure Centre and Black Axe Throwing Margate, based in Edgar Road, says the closure yesterday (September 29) comes after a “challenging summer.”
The business opened in Cliftonville in May 2022. It initially started out as a pop up in Edinburgh with Black Axe venues following in Belfast, Southampton and Lancaster.
But the business, which previously closed its Black Axe Edinburgh site, has now announced the closure of the Cliftonville site, posting to social media to say: “It is with great sadness that we have to announce the closure of MLC and Black Axe Throwing.
“Following a challenging summer we have no option but to close our doors, for the very last time.
“To everyone who came along to throw things, either round or sharp, thank you, we had the most wonderful time teaching you. We’d like to thank all of the amazing people who have worked with us over the last few years.
“You helped bring our venue to life in ways we never thought possible, you are all brilliant. A big shout out to POW who hosted a superb event while we were still half a building site. To all our amazing staff, both past and present, you were everything and made this place what it was.
“We are incredibly proud of what we achieved, but it’s now time for us to say goodbye.”
The venue offered axe throwing, boule pitches, bar, pizzas and free to play games in house such as Hammerschlagen, Cornhole, Crosscut Sawing, Table Football and others.
Black Axe venues remain running at Belfast, Southampton and Lancaster.
A “business” based around a fad…. same fate escape rooms will have before long 🙁
People in Cliftonville tend to prefer knife plunging to axe throwing!
Axe throwing in Birchington then Peter
We’re more into model making and jigsaws.
Getting into dangerous territory there Peter,you could injure yourself opening a jigsaw box
Maybe – just maybe – you do not speak for the good people of Birchington and know nothing of the fine residents of Cliftonville.
https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2022/01/14/man-fighting-for-life-and-two-arrested-following-stabbing-at-birchington-railway-station/
They were from Cliftonville.
Or Ramsgate.
Margaluf- the perpetrator was not from Thanet, but he was from a town in Kent.
What will be for the chop,next?
Are there many Margate residents who play Boules?
The perils of opening a niche business in a smallish town , with a short tourist season and a catchment area that is 270 degrees english channel. And now there are the new attractions at westwood cross with better parking and food outlets within easy reach. Odds were rather stacked against them.
I always wanted to go as a group but I don’t feel £20+ for an hour was worth it , maybe others thought the same.
A problem many businesses are going to have going forward, a business isn’t one if it can’t make a profit but to do so means costs are passed onto customers who may not feel the end product is worth it. Compounded in thanet where there are many with little disposable income and we don’t have enough al year attractions to attract decent numbers of visitors through out the winter season. If the budget at the end of this month makes too many people feel sufficiently worse off to substantially reduce their discretionary spending , it won’t be surprising to see more businesses follow suit, surely better to close in a managed fashion than have your debts force closure on you.
The isles restaurants are noticeably quieter than they have been in the past, unlikely all will survive.
More of the same from the usual suspects.. gloating in businesses closing as they’d prefer things to be nothing, rather than a thing that doesn’t directly and specifically appeal to them. What dull, little worlds.
Who is gloating? I doubt anybody is happy about it, just pointing out that boules & axe throwing is probably not a long-term business in Margate.
I the business would be axed.
I didn’t even know there was a Margate leisure centre in Edgar Road, Cliftonville.
No advertising of what went on there might have been a factor in closing.