Nostalgia

[oscar]

Decimalisation - the biggest con ever pulled on a gullible public!

[Southernboy]

I do remember being a little confused shortly after decimalisation when I bought 10p worth of sweets and the shop-keeper wouldn't give me the 2p change I was expecting from the shilling I'd just handed over.

That price list dates from around the time I started getting interested in model railways: I used to get half-a-crown a week pocket money then, so a Farish 4-wheeler would take three weeks saving-up ... (how many of you pre-decimal members continued to work out prices in 'proper money' long after decimilsation just to see how much things  'really cost' ?? 

We still had £1 notes then too (withdrawn 1984).

[Oldman]

I do remember being a little confused shortly after decimalisation when I bought 10p worth of sweets and the shop-keeper wouldn't give me the 2p change I was expecting from the shilling I'd just handed over.

That price list dates from around the time I started getting interested in model railways: I used to get half-a-crown a week pocket money then, so a Farish 4-wheeler would take three weeks saving-up ... (how many of you pre-decimal members continued to work out prices in 'proper money' long after decimilsation just to see how much things  'really cost' ?? 

We still had £1 notes then too (withdrawn 1984).

I still remember my first paypacket in 1970 was £7 3s6d  - on a different note any one remember the double florin (4 bob bit) still have one along with a Churchill Crown in our old coin collection.

[Newportnobby]

Farthings, halfpennys, threepenny bits, tanners, shillings, florins, half crowns, guineas - all but a memory except threepenny bits and that's only rhyming slang nowadays 

Many's the time I overheard old ladies saying they weren't going to bother with this new money stuff because it won't catch on

[Southernboy]

Two stories:

On the day the 'New Decimal Money' came out I remember coming out of a shop with my Nan and her saying 'Look how small and narrow these new half-p coins are - they can slip between your fingers! (and she was right - they were absolutely miniscule compared to the old coins!)

Also from my Nanny Rose ...

"Rule Brittania, Two Tanners make a Bob, Three make Two and Six and three Three Bob:

[cookiescrumble]

I was - 4 months old then! 

Young whippersnapper

In 1971, my parents were only 6 

[scotsoft]

I was just 18 then, and it's probably the first time this list had been issued since decimalisation
Thanks for posting

Young whippersnapper! (I was 20)

I can fill the gap, I was 19 and as pure as the driven slush, a state I have kept intact to this very day     

[Malc]

I can tell you one thing tho' - nostalgia ain't as good as it was in the old days