While it may not look like the most dazzling affair going (check out that toddler sized roulette wheel), Casino Club Port has the honour of being the first Monte Carlo style establishment offering casino gambling in the UK. This was back in 1961. Opened by gambling entrepreneur George Alfred James, the fashion forward attended in their masses, with jewels on display left, right and centre. Religious leaders were up in arms about it all, but what;s new about that.