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by loramarsden
Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:00 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Freddy Bailey & British slot books
Replies: 34
Views: 13746

Re: help! british slot books!

thankyou everyone for your replies :D

looks like i'm going to have to get my credit card out pronto !!ESCAPE!!

xxx
by loramarsden
Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:26 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Freddy Bailey & British slot books
Replies: 34
Views: 13746

help! british slot books!

Topic merged - Site Admin.

hey everyone! i'm interested in buying a book (or two) from the 'british' section in the library. was wondering if any of you owned any of the books and which you would/would not recommend?


thankyou! x
by loramarsden
Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:03 am
Forum: Auction Community
Topic: e-Bay treasure
Replies: 15
Views: 5209

Re: e-Bay treasure

!!WAVEE!! hi there!

i've just got to ask...

:shock: HOW THE HECK TO YOU FIND THESE THINGS ON E-BAY!?!?!?!

seriously, what are you putting in your searches? i can NEVER find anything like this on e-bay, and i search several times a week in case stuff comes up!

:D x lora x
by loramarsden
Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:51 pm
Forum: Open Forum
Topic: Happy New Year to all Slotties
Replies: 5
Views: 2423

Re: Happy New Year to all Slotties

hello everyone! :cool: i've TOTALLY been neglecting the forum of late, with being in my final year of uni its getting abit hectic... but i thought i'd pop by! :sick: feeling abit hazy after last night, hope you've all had a wonderful christmas and a happy new year... all the best for 2010 :lucky: (a...
by loramarsden
Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:13 pm
Forum: See it Operate!
Topic: Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms
Replies: 104
Views: 75703

Re: Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

:eek: what a fascinating story, and what an AMAZING collection!

when are we all going on a visit?
by loramarsden
Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:32 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Isle of Wight - Arreton - Working Oldies in Play
Replies: 10
Views: 12376

Re: Isle of Wight - Arreton - Working Oldies in Play

oh lordy! thanks VERY much! by shere coincidence i've posting letters out to various people this week asking for any information/help on the subject, to help with my dissertation... and i did send one to the people at the southport pier arcade! *squeal* lets hope i get a reply soon! :-)
by loramarsden
Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:23 pm
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Isle of Wight - Arreton - Working Oldies in Play
Replies: 10
Views: 12376

Re: Isle of Wight - Arreton - Working Oldies in Play

just a few of my collection of the fortune teller cards in my sketchbooks for uni... fortune1.jpg fortune2.jpg fortune3.jpg fortune4.jpg and some photos from my last visit to the end of the pier arcade at southport, i dragged my friend alex (because she can drive...she quickly became very bored - wh...
by loramarsden
Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:44 am
Forum: Discoveries
Topic: Isle of Wight - Arreton - Working Oldies in Play
Replies: 10
Views: 12376

Re: Isle of Wight - Arreton - Working Oldies in Play

gah! souport pavillion arcade, my home away from home!
by loramarsden
Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:38 pm
Forum: See it Operate!
Topic: Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms
Replies: 104
Views: 75703

Re: Arcades, Museums & Gamerooms

i can't believe i went to brighton for the first time a few months and had NO idea this place existed :cry:
by loramarsden
Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:08 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

:o no haven't! any chance you could send me a link? whenever people post these brilliant ebay auctions i don't have a clue how people find them, i must put terrible searches in!

x lora x
by loramarsden
Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:32 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

sadly not posters, some TERRIBLY crude sticks of rock im afraid ;-)
by loramarsden
Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:42 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

(my trip to southport the other day)
by loramarsden
Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:04 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

i don't really remember the botany bar arcade very well, i just remember loving it when i was little, but i bet it was really pretty awful! as for paying to go there, yep, that's pretty shitty, but i think my membership card cost 3 quid...which i don't mind so much... and i guess its just the neares...
by loramarsden
Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:31 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

hello! haha i do have the bad fortune of living in wigan... but maybe there's a silver lining in the form of penny machines at the pier... i had NO idea!?!?!?!... i'll have to check it out! as for botany bay, i used to LOVE that penny arcade when i was little, but when i was on foundation i went the...
by loramarsden
Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:59 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

hehe thankyou! i'm super impressed/touched that people are being BRILLIANT... i can't thankyou enough! :mrgreen: i just hope i can buy something and get on with the work, though i guess if the bank of mum and dad can't help it'll have to wait til the end of summer when student loan comes in, in whic...
by loramarsden
Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:08 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

gah! all these finds look pretty excellent, such a pain that most of them need collecting...me being a non-driver... :-( geeeeeez... whats a girl to do? anyway, i'll have to have a proper look at them and see if i can get the creative cogs turning...a.) to decide which would be most useful and b.) t...
by loramarsden
Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:40 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

you could be onto something there! hehe :idea:
by loramarsden
Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:48 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

I'm glad you like the exhibition, it was only for our little art foundation show, like, a-level standard really... i was so disappointed i hadn't the skills to make anything work.. but i had a lot of fun decorating everything and secretly becoming abit of a whizz in the wood workshops!... :o as for ...
by loramarsden
Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:36 am
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Re: HELP!...please :-)

ohhh thankyou so much for the replies so far, i've been popping on here every couple of hours to check... HOW exciting :D i'll have to really look into this more... cos i guess i was probably being pretty unrealistic wanting to go for some of the older stuff, i mean, a cigarette machine is probably ...
by loramarsden
Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:02 pm
Forum: Questions and Answers
Topic: Adapting old machines
Replies: 22
Views: 11811

Adapting old machines

Hey! I know I've only just got here, but I'm super keen to some help, and clearly, you're the people to help! Basically, I'm an art student and for my degree show I really REALLY want to adapt some amusements... when i was 17 and on my art foundation course, I made my own amusement show thing based ...