Image ID: 00759

Fortune Telling Machine Peiriant dweud ffortiwn

Credits:

Promenade
Brecon
Powys
Wales Promenade
Aberhonddu
Powys
Cymru

Fortune telling machines were a type of amusement which would predict one’s future upon receiving payment of a penny. Many were automatons but this example, from a 1930s arcade on the Brecon Promenade, has a clock-face where the hand of the ‘clock’ would sweep around to select a pre-written prophecy. Buodd peiriannau dweud ffortiwn yn fath o ddiddanwch a fyddai’n rhagweld dyfodol rhywun ar ôl talu ceiniog. Roedd llawer yn awtomata ond mae gan ein henghraifft ni, o arcêd o’r 1930au ar Bromenâd Aberhonddu, wyneb cloc. Byddai bys y ‘cloc’ yn troi o gwmpas i ddethol proffwydoliaeth a oedd wedi’i hysgrifennu’n barod.

Date:

1930-1940

Category:

Powys Life, Leisure and the arts, Victorians

Institution:

Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery Amgueddfa ac Oriel Gelf Brycheiniog

Organisation Reference:

Brecon Museum y Gaer BRCNM 1983.15

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Keywords Brecon Promenade witch cat broomstick crow wheel toy

Keywords Brecon Promenade gwrach cath ysgub frân olwyn Amgueddfa ac Oriel Gelf Brycheiniog