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Good afternoon from a
gloriously Sunny South Shields…I hope we’re all enjoying such lovely
weather!
Our summer exhibition
this year will celebrate all the thrills, spills, fun and frivolity of the
seaside, and we have plans to display a large collection of vintage coin
operated funfair type machines – some of which we’d like visitors to actually be
able to try out.
We plan to buy up old
stocks of 1d coins, which we would then sell to visitors, to be used to play on
the machines.
However, a question
has been raised about whether or not we would need to have some sort of licence
to do so? I don’t suppose it comes under ‘gambling’ as, if you do ‘win’, you’d
get back old defunct money, so it’s more for amusement than anything else? I’m
sure that a lot of operators in the heyday of the coin operated machines did
actually stipulate on their machines “For Amusement Only” to get around
contemporary gambling laws, etc. Can anyone advise on this
matter?
I’d also like to know
of any ‘penny arcades’ that still operate, or indeed to hear from any museums
that have done the sort of thing I’m proposing, before.
Any information and
advice gratefully received.
Thanks
Adam
Adam
Bell
Assistant
Keeper, Social History
Tyne
& Wear Archives & Museums
South
Shields Museum & Art Gallery
Ocean
Road
South
Shields
Tyne
& Wear
NE33
2JA
Tel:
(0191) 456 8740
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