Tim McCann still remembers the day more than 50 years ago his grandad brought him a rather unusual gift – a fruit machine.
What sticks in his mind, decades later, was the look of shock on his father’s face after Tim’s granddad Cornelius McCann presented him with the present.
“It was a great heavy thing. I was wondering what on earth it was, I had no idea at all,” explains Tim, now 64, of East Boldon, Tyne and Wear.
