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.

On 8 Apr 2015 1:34 pm, "Adam Bell" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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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

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South Shields

Tyne & Wear

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