The Swavesey Pinball Weekend is not exactly a show; it’s more of an annual social get-together in a pub, featuring a dozen-or-so pinballs, a prize raffle and a tournament, all organised by local resident and pinball restorer, Mark Squires, to raise money for charity. As usual, it takes place over three days in the rear [...]
I’ve been going to the IAAPA trade show since 2009, and while manufacturers will often do prize giveaways, I don’t recall hearing about anything quite as elaborate as today’s story. It’s usually something like a tablet or some other kind of relatively inexpensive schwag. Relatively is the key word this time as we take a [...]
It had been three years since the previous Swavesey Pinball Weekend could take place, but the enforced break had only strengthened the desire to spend a sunny weekend at a pub in the English countryside, eating, drinking and playing pinball. The Swavesey Pinball Weekend is a uniquely small-scale event which is only possible thanks to [...]
The East-Anglian Pinball Show is one of the cosiest and most unusual events in the UK’s pinball calendar. For a start, hardly anyone called it by that moniker. For everyone involved, it’s just known as Swavesey after the small Cambridgeshire village where it is held. The actual venue is the back room of the White [...]