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Did anyone ever go on the Sydney St trip to Belle Vue Zoo and amusement park in Manchester. Probably in the mid to late 1960's. My sister and I went on them for a number of years, they were always great fun. We would set off at about 10am from the club, on a double decker bus, and we were all given half a crown (12.5 pence) to spend, after tea we got another half crown. We loved going on the trips as we always felt grown up being allowed to do what we liked for the day.
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Sorry Jelly Baby, wasn,t half a crown 30 pennies?

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Jelly I remember them trips to the Zoo and the great Camel rides, is Belle vue zoo still open?
12.5p, 2/6, half a crown,
5p = 1s so 30p was 6 bob.

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Now you,ve realy got me thinking Bazf. 2/6 was 30 p prior to decimalization, then it was 12 1/2 p but I can,t remember when we went decimal. I,m sure someone can remember,help.

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We went decimal in Feb 1972 if I remember correctly.
There were 240 old pennies in £1:Banane32: :Banane32: :Banane32:
120 = 10/- or 10 shillings:Banane47: :Banane39:
8 x half crowns = £1:Banane47: :Banane39: :Banane39:

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Feb 15th 1971.

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I stand corrected. I remember I had a Saturday job at Asda (when it was on Blackburn Rd, now Glynn Webb, formerly Nightingales Garage), we had to do a 2 hour 'course' to enable us to work it all out!
:Banane39: :Banane39:

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went on em from sydney st in 50s, was always Belle Vue or southport, me dad was on commitee in those days n through to mid 60s, magics days long gone.:)