Photos from the Pocklington Museum collection

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Here are some of the photos that I have from Pocklington penny arcade when Jon Gresham owned and ran it.

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lovely, I remember visiting

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Some more.

When Pocklington Arts Centre was home to Penny Arcadia…

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Some nice old machines in there.

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I think the reason it wasn't particularly successful is that you couldn't play the majority of the machines, only look at them, and it was in a small market town, not a high footfall tourist location. Also, at the time the machines were relatively cheap to buy.

Paul Daniels went on to co-own, for a short while, the oldest pay-to-enter tourist attraction in England, since 1630, Mother Shipton's Cave and Petrifying Well at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.