From 20 Shops to £15 Million! - The Bet That Changed Everything! #history

Añadido: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]With his business [music] booming, Jack's friend, William Hill, who had not been so bold as to take his bookmaking business out onto the high street, made an offer to buy Jack's shops. It was an offer that Jack couldn't refuse.

[00:00:14]Swift was the pioneer and took the risk.

[00:00:17]He felt that [music] the bookmaking industry and licensed bookmaking was going to be successful, and it took a long time for William [music] Hill to actually make the decision that he was going to go the same way. By 1966, his 20 shops and his business was sold to William Hill in its entirety for 850,000 pounds, which in today's money equates to close to 15 million.