i remember when.....

[Mik Dickinson]

I remember when you used to leave the milk tokens in the bottle for the milkman.Many a free pint of milk i took home with me while i was doing the paper round.

[WINGY]

remember going in barry and gails in church and buyin a mars for 14p

[mick]

[quote author=WINGY link=board=nostalgia;num=1059916385;start=40#61 date=08/14/03 at 22:59:29]remember going in barry and gails in church and buyin a mars for 14p[/quote]
I can remember when a mars bar was 6d *???

[Caz]

Glad i'm not the only one!! ;D ;D

[mick]

Them were the days 12d = 1 shilling
6d = a tanner ;D

[flashman]

[quote author=Mik_Dickinson link=board=nostalgia;num=1059916385;start=40#59 date=08/14/03 at 08:23:21]Talking about toilets i remember the newspaper, slinging your bum over a wooden plank with a hole in it.The old tin bath that came out every Friday in front of the fire while your parents were boiling the water up on the gas cooker.Where neighbours talked to each other and kids could talk to strangerswithout you having to be worried.
Them were the days.[/quote]

Ah the old "Tippler". Using the "Evening Telegraph" as toilet paper, lighting it and throwing it down the hole in winter just to warm yer bum.

[HarryX]

Thruppni bits, Ten bob notes, Pound notes, Half a crown, Sixpence, Florins, Tuppences  and I can't spell what was half a penny  haipney? aipny?  whatever ?

There was quarter of a penny with a robin on.


Whoever invented decimilisation was too clever by 0.5

The penny tray at the shop was wierd cus ya could suddenly get three things for one pence.

[Sara]

Bag of chips from the chippy across from the old Accrington baths, now they were the best chips going.   :P

[mick]

[quote author=HarryX link=board=nostalgia;num=1059916385;start=40#66 date=08/15/03 at 10:38:58]
Thruppni bits, Ten bob notes, Pound notes, Half a crown, Sixpence, Florins, Tuppences *and I can't spell what was half a penny *haipney? aipny? *whatever ?

There was quarter of a penny with a robin on.


Whoever invented decimilisation was too clever by 0.5

The penny tray at the shop was wierd cus ya could suddenly get three things for one pence.


[/quote]
I think you mean farthing
and the penny tray had 4 for 1d eg : black jacks  

[HarryX]

FOUR ??

12 pennies made a shilling
5 new pence was the equivelant using a bob.. 5 pence bit

thus it was 2. summat pennies to a one new pence. Shops used to err on the safe side thus 2 things from the penny tray but the country played up buggery because they got less for there money (using penny trays as an example here) so some shops erred on the other side and you may have got 3 things for one new pence... But four?  That was a good shop

[mick]

There was 4 farthings to 1d
there was 4 black jacks for 1d before decimalisation 1971