Please feel free to use the scan. According to the letter that came with the card, Ladbrooke also owned the Park Lane Casino located at 24 Hertford St. - that must have become the Colony Club. The letter also offers me free membership in that club and the Park Tower Casino in the Sheraton Park Tower Hotel, 101 Knightsbridge. I suppose that club is gone now as well. I joined the Hertford because they had a craps table and the other casinos I checked at the time did not. The Hertford was a pretty small place - one craps table, two or three blackjack tables and two roulette tables. They were doing quite well the night I was there - a Saudi was playing roulette at a table reserved for him alone. He was using 20 and 50 pound chips to play the numbers as a sort of filler. He would wait until just before the ball dropped and say "Two thousand on the black" and the pit boss would say "You have a bet". While I watched him for about 15 minutes he lost an entire rack of chips - they brought out another - he signed a chit and continued to lose. I figured he lost about 20,000 pounds while I watched. I was impressed.

My son now lives in London so perhaps I'll hang onto the card and try getting into one of the Ladbrooke clubs on my next visit.