Silcocks Funland and other popular venues are featured and give a real insight into what arcades were like. Have they changed much? The technology certainly has but the lure of the bright lights and slot machines remains just as it was back in the day. Harts Amusements which has been a fixture of the arcade scene in Blackpool for six decades is featured too. It announced this week that it would be closing it’s doors for the final time. The retro games on display will take you right back.
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1. Arcade memories
US cars and hot rods on the forecourt of Harts Amusements at Bispham. Russ Larcome (left) of UK Wheels Events and Charles Hart (Harts Amusements) with Russ's 1963 Ford Fairlane 500 and model Stacey Bradley from Cleveleys Photo: Bill Johnson
2. Inside the Arcades
This young lady was intrigued by the updated puppet on a string machine at the Golden Mile Centre Photo: National World
3. Arcade memories
US cars and hot rods on the forecourt of Harts Amusements at Bispham. Arnold and Carole Robinson from Poulton le Fylde and their AC Cobra-built by Harold Photo: Bill Johnson
4. Inside the Arcades
This photo from 1992 was taken inside Silcocks Fun Palace Photo: National World
5. Arcade memories
Pass the Parcel: Mandy Hedley of Boots collects toys from Charles Henry Hart of Harts Amusements and Warwick Tunnicliffe of Warwicks Amusements, 1999 Photo: Mike Foster
