This very machine was delivered new to the Thomas amusement arcade in Hunstanton and remained in their ownership until Peter Williamson fought off stiff competition at auction in 2021 from collectors in Holland, Germany and even America to keep this much loved machine here in Norfolk. This amazing, much sort after and very rare machine is called a Bimbo Box which was made in 1958 by UTA Elektroakustik of Stuttgart. Peter Williamson of the “Williamsons original end of the Pier penny arcades” based here in Norfolk restores and operates vintage amusement machines from the 1920s up to the 1970s for tourists and locals alike to enjoy. For the first time in decades performing monkeys return to Norfolk,īut not real ones that is.