The Bellingham Hotel

What happened after

32-bedroom Victorian hotel on Wigan Lane permanently closed in 2020 (per Wigan Council); site now Council-owned freehold vacant development opportunity.

Closure date on record: 2020

What happened on the show

The series 9 record on the Bellingham is brief, framing it as Alex Polizzi being brought in to bring some Northern Soul to a struggling Wigan hotel and restore its former glory. The property was a thirty-two bedroom Victorian hotel on Wigan Lane, the kind of large, once-grand town hotel whose scale becomes a burden when trade thins. The episode summary does not preserve the specifics of the faults or the changes, so the honest account is the verifiable frame: a struggling historic hotel and restaurant in Wigan that sought the inspector's help in her ninth series, with the fuller story of its fate told by the records that survive. The plea to inject Northern Soul aired in July 2012, before Companies House records and a council closure notice traced the Victorian hotel's end.

After the cameras left

The Bellingham has closed. Companies House confirms The Bellingham Hotel Limited, registered at 141 to 149 Wigan Lane, was incorporated in 2011 and dissolved in 2017, one of several dissolved Bellingham-named companies at the same address, an unusually high churn for one small hotel. Wigan Council records a permanent closure in 2020, with the site now a council-owned vacant development opportunity. The direct Companies House trail is firm, so the closure is held at high confidence. The Victorian hotel Polizzi tried to revive is gone, its site awaiting redevelopment.