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Tributes paid to Dewsbury bookmaking legend George Carrigill

SBC News Tributes paid to Dewsbury bookmaking legend George Carrigill

Betting industry tributes have been paid to bookmaker George Carrigill, who passed away last Thursday following a short illness. Aged 84, Carrigill was the founder of Dewsbury (West Yorkshire) based independent bookmaker ‘Carrigill’s Betting Centres’, a business he had first started in 1954 with the £300 his father had left him. Carrigill was one of the first UK businessmen to …

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