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More news from ThePennyPress, the
Oxford Castle machine has has a refurb, this means new designs
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Four more machines from ThePennyPress,
Greenwood Forest Park - North Wales
Same street, new location. The Coronation Street Tour in Manchester has the same 4 die machine, it is located in the gift shop. The shop is open all week, the tour only happens on certain weekends.
MAY
The first two new machines from ThePennyPress, these two on the Emerald Isle.
Gobbin Cliff Walk - County Antrim
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They have renamed the theme park RoarrDinosaurAdventure and have renewed the for the penny machine. Very similar, but welcome all the same.
APRIL
New on the token front the NEW one from Arsenal FC Ground tour. It depicts Arsene Wenger, the manager.
FEBRUARY
New from Souvenir Pennies. Welsh Botanical Gardens.
JANUARY
Ian Hope on a visit to London discovered a new machine in Piccadilly. It is located inside Kingdom Sweets.
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It's all true and more. After a full day in Nottingham and London here is the new information.
A new National Token machine at Warhammer World in Nottingham
There is now a second machine in the tavern of London Dungeons. Traditional machine, typical Pennymangle smoothness.
Three new Pennymangles in Natural History Museum.
Next door the 7 machines at the London Science have had the back stamp changed.
Bubba Gump restaurant in Piccadilly has a new PennyMen machine, #SpeedRoll
Splash Souvenirs is open again next to Bubba Gump, machine on the pavement.
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Sorry that I have been very poor on updating the website. Not a lot of news and I have been busy elsewhere. Anyway, hopefully I can get my head around penny collecting and reporting the news. That's what I hope in anycase. Just click the link above to the right to catch up on 6 recent machines being installed.
Roll On 2018
SEPTEMBER
The SouvenirPennies machine at St Fagans in South Wales.
AUGUST
Pennymangle have installed a new machine in the Liverpool FC Megastore, Liverpool One shopping centre
JULY
Souvenir Pennies have had a bonanza installing session, new machines at the following:
Wales
- National Museum Cardiff (2 new machines)
- Glencoe (a new 4 die replaces the 3 die)
JUNE
The first of many new machines from SouvenirPennies has been reported on PennyCollector. This one is from Boscombe Pier. Seemingly piers are quite the in place.
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There is a new Souvenir Pennies machine at the Fleet Air Arm museum in Ilchester, Somerset. It is a 5 die machine
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The Unique PPF machine at the Shard has been moved to the 67th viewing platform floor. This was always to be it's location.
MAY
Pennymangle have placed a ninth machine at Legoland Windsor. This time in the Legoland Hotel, accessible without entering the park.
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PennyMenEurope are busy in Scotland, they have installed a machine at the David Welch Winter Gardens in Aberdeen.
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Clacton Pier has a penny machine located in a gift shop on the pier. Details to follow....
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There is a machine in the little shop on board HMS Victory in Portsmouth Dockyard. It looks like the designs used on a Souvenir Pennies machine.
APRIL
New GEM machines from the PennyPressFactory have been located at three castles in Scotland.
and a repaired machine
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PennyMenEurope have increased their portfolio in Ireland with 3
new locations
MARCH
Pennymangle have installed two new machines.
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Just off on a squishin' misson to the Emerald Isle, but before I do just time to tell you about the 4 new machines from SouvenirPennies in Wales. These are located in
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Mixed emotions this morning. Andy Tait found out about this design at Wigan Athletic.
It looks like the designs from Scotron. But I am afraid to say the machine was taken away a few years ago. Gutted.
FEBRUARY
Just sneaking under the February end wire is the design change at Knockhatch Adventure Park machine.
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Only One machine to report on this month, ThePennyPress have placed a machine in a Carrolls Irish Souvenir store in Belfast.
JANUARY 2017
Manchester City now have their own PENNYMANGLE machine.
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ShrekAdventures! now have two PENNYMANGLE machines. The latest is inside the exhibit in How to Train Your Dragon
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PennyMenEurope have placed a machine in the StreetLife Museum.
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ThePennyPress, Ireland have placed a 4 die machine in Exploris Aquarium and Seal Santuary in Portaferry, Belfast.
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SouvenirPennies have replaced the MKlV machine at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park with one of their wooden cabinets. the designs now have a solid border.
DECEMBER 2016
PennyMenEurope have just installed 4 new machines in Ireland. These are located
NOVEMBER 2016
Just sneaking it in to November is a new machine at the National Galleries, on the Mound, in Edinburgh. It is a machine from SouvenirPennies, I haven't seen the pennies as yet, but the designs are:
OCTOBER 2016
Always nice to see a penny machine, this one is in the Fishing Heritage Museum in Grimsby. One of the oldest in the country, this design has been here since the early 90's (apparently) Click and spin the picture around for a surprise.
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It has been around for a while, this single electric machine from Scotron is situated at Water's Edge, Barton on Humber. Rolls well, they will take payment over the phone.
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The designs for the Weston Park machine by Katya Robin were released on Twitter today
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After many years there is a GEM machine in Blackpool Pleasure Beach a the end of the INFUSION ride. It has been 10 years since the ThePennyPress machine was at the Big One.
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The machine at Wicksteed Park in Kettering is finally under repair, hopefully back soon.
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When Athos, Porthos and D'Artagnan visited the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth the anticipated new machine didn't materialise. There was a GEM machine there until recently. Nice designs, shame it couldn't be made reliable.
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There are three 4 die Souvenir Penny machines within Wookey Hole Caves and gift shops. 8 different designs across the three machines. All these machines turn the opposite way round to the norm.
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The Nissan Innovations machines at the O2 are being removed in November. Hurry on down to get your sets.
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Artist Katya Robin has re-designed the pennies at the Millennium Gallery and Graves Gallery in Sheffield
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SouvenirPennies have changed the designs at the
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The PennyMenEurope machine from Brunel News in the O2 has been re-located to a nother branch in Portsmouth.
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Monday 10th October is the planned date for a new PennyMenEurope machine at Leeds Castle, which is Kent.
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Look out for SouvenirPennies machines, they appear to be changing designs on some of their machines from a solid border to that of fine dots. See Twycross Zoo, Paultons Park and Brighton Pavillion. Which is your nearest machine?
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LEICESTER CITY are the latest English football club to receive a Pennymangle penny machine and Heritage Token machine.
SEPTEMBER 2016
At the launch today at the Coral Island Amusements complex on the Promenade in Blackpool. PennyMen Europe unveiled their latest machine in the UK. Ian Hope was the first to speed roll, see the video on the UKPennies Facebook page by clicking on the picture.
What a beautifully engineered machine it is too.
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Join us again next Wednesday (5th), this time in the Midlands, where we will once again be having a Facebook Live! event
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Ian Hope has too much time on his hands, he says there are currently 1391 pennies availble in England alone .... I haven't enough time to see if he is right or not.
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They have been the lastest Holy Grail to me, but finally Jason Teehan from the Rock of Cashel shop came up with a set of pennies from his machine. It feels like Christmas morning. Thank you Jason.
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NEW INFO** 5th Sept. 2016 - the machine in the Manchester United Red Caf� has been removed.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you third machine from ThePennyPress in a number of weeks. This time at The Emmerdale Studio Experience, Leeds. The picture was provided by
Dunfermline Carnegie Library - Fife
Spike Island - County Cork
It is an independent continental machine. Manufacturer is MAECRI-Italy.
- Stratford Butterfly Farm (new location)
- Camel Creek (new machine, formerly Cornwalls Crealy)
- Diggerland Kent (new location)
- HMS Victory at Historic Dockyards (replacement machine) - 5 die
- Living Coasts (second machine)
- Marwell Zoo (a 5th Machine)
- Woburn Safari (a 3rd Machine)
- The Big Pit (new machine)
Scotland
The shop is only open at the weekend at the moment.
the last two are based on famous portraits in Scottish National Gallery)
There will hopefully be new machines here in the new year.
West Somerset Railway in Minehead.
Lets see how the London designs go down there
Click the picture for machine and penny pictures.
Twycross Zoo Brighton Pavillion
The designs are the usual Pennymangle quality, depicting the EPL League Champions.