About this deal
LANDMARKS ‘PASS GO’:Other Hereford landmarks featuring include: The Green Dragon Hotel, The Bull Statue, the Waterworks Museum, Edgar Street Stadium, the Racecourse, the Cattle Market and the Courtyard Theatre. The Angel is a former pub, not a street. It was a Lyons Corner House in 1935 and is reportedly where Watson and Phillips stopped for lunch. [25]
Being a part of such an iconic and world famous board game is truly an honour and is sure to be a hit with Herefordians of all ages.This MONOPOLY game will showcase some of our own iconic landmarks, history and charities. I suspect that some of the chosen landmarks and the dreaded penalty squares you can land on will cause much debate!”
In February it was announced that Hereford had seen off 24 other places to land its’ very own official MONOPOLY board.
The board’s ‘Big Reveal’ was on 6October 2022, with the game hitting the shops that morning, both in the city and online - and we get to featureas the ‘Mayfair ofHereford’.BUILD YOUR HEREFORD EMPIRE: Buy up colour sets and use your custom Monopoly money to expand your empire by building houses and hotels
The board is set to feature the following landmarks which have all been heavily tipped on social media: Brown, Matt (9 December 2016). "The Real Life Monopoly Board". Londonist . Retrieved 28 March 2017.
MONOPOLY Features
We have been wonderfully spoilt for choice putting this unique game together,” says Ella Gibbs, Custom Games Executive at Winning Moves UK, who are the makers of the board under official licensing from Hasbro. “Thank you to everyone who sent in suggestions”.
Executive Principal, Peter Cooper expressed his excitement: “Monopoly is part of many of our childhoods and I am delighted that the Sixth Form College has a prominent position on the board along with other icons such as the Cathedral, the Green Dragon and Castle Green. Only a select group of places worldwide have featured in specialist editions and it is a great honour for Hereford and our community that we have been chosen. The day tasks of studying, teaching, enrichment and socialising must go on but I won’t be surprised to see a few impromptu games breaking out in the near future. Now where is that top hat?” Victor Watson, businessman – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 8 March 2015 . Retrieved 28 March 2017. The only location south of the River Thames; also the only one both outside and more than one tube stop away from the Circle line. [24]We have been wonderfully spoilt for choice putting this unique game together,” says Ella Gibbs, Custom Games Executive at Winning Moves UK, who are the makers of the board under official licensing from Hasbro. “Thank you to everyone who sent in suggestions.It was a tight race in particular for the Mayfair spot, which sparked a lot of debate. Any one of three or four could have filled it. In the end the Cathedral has got to land on it and a huge congratulations to them for emerging as the new ‘Mayfair of Hereford’!”.