Fantastic! Thanks so much for letting me know. I'll have to take a look the next time I'm down there. Dawlish wouldn't be the same without it!
They were indeed looking more than a little threadbare, and Sue was looking almost possessed, what with her sunken eyes and all, but it just added to the charm. I'm just hoping that it's gone to a collector or a museum instead of ending up in a skip.
While Harrison's Amusements has gone from it's gaming mecca days in the 1980's where you could spend hours playing the latest and greatest arcade games to today where it's full of naff fruit machines, one thing has stood firm against the sands of time - the Sooty and Sweep machine situated just outside one of the main doors. Each year my friends and I would visit Dawlish, and one of the small ...