Games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders would regularly draw teens wearing jackets – leather, bomber or corduroy – from across Herne Bay to Cain’s Amusements in the 1980s.
At the same time, day-trippers from London would step through the arcade’s doors, where they would join local families playing bingo, and pensioners hunched over coin-pushers.
Budding photographer George Wilson was working in the Central Parade arcade in 1982.
He would smuggle his camera into the premises and snap away, unwittingly creating artefacts that provided a glimpse into life in the town 40 years ago.
“I was supposed to be working there, not taking photos,” he tells former Canterbury Christ Church University student Shaun Vincent.
“I used to take my camera down secretly and take a few pictures….
