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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Hi Adam We have a fairground with a few of these at BCLM and use a licence for that. I'll enquire for you what it covers and find out what I can, in case it helps. Sounds a great exhibition idea! JB Sent from my mobile On 8 Apr 2015 1:34 pm, "Adam Bell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, > your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the > author of this message. ------------------------------- > > > > 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 > > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > > > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify your IT > department. > > All incoming and outgoing email are monitored for compliance with Tyne and Wear Museums email, Internet and security policy. > > This email has been swept by Sophos. > > > The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to > discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit > www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility > of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do > not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] > with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF > SHCG-LIST The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST