So what did the butler see? I've always been intrigued to know what naughty images were contained in the pre-war, coin-operated amusement machines. And I finally found out during a visit to Old Penny Memories, a working collection of antique slot machines in Bridlington.

Here there are fortune-telling machines; traditional fruit and pinball machines; devices dating back to the First World War to test the strength of your grip; a "Matrimonial Bureau", dishing out advice on how to choose a sweetheart or future mother in law; and there's Jolly Jack, a kind of doll who moves and gives a loud and hysterical laugh.

And then there's the mutoscope "Butler" machine, in which a series of photographs create a cartoon-style sequence of events. The images weren't anything that your Sun reader doesn't see every day of the week nowadays, with one featuring a partially clothed lady swimming around in a river.

Admission is free. You just buy a handful of huge old British pennies when you enter and then use them to work the machines. Below the arcade, you can enjoy a nostalgic drink and eat in a Sixties-style coffee bar.

Just a couple of hundred yards from Old Penny Memories, we visited another larger museum giving visitors a chance to sample the sights and sounds of Bridlington's history as a seaside resort. This also has a room of old-fashioned amusement machines.

But there are also tableaux from different eras, including holidaymakers at breakfast time in a Fifties boarding house and then the same trippers enjoying a cup of tea in a beachside bathing hut.

There are plenty of hands-on devices for keeping children amused, including hideous puppets from Punch and Judy who shake manically at you when you open the doors into their boxes, games to discover the meaning of local dialect and a chance to take to the wheel of a paddle steamer and enjoy a trip around the bay without leaving dry land, via a video.

My daughter had spotted the seafront fairground before we entered the museum, and there was time for a quick go on the small-scale rollercoaster before returning home after an enjoyable day out.