unclebuck

lol - I had forgotten this term for 10 shillings - or 50p as we now know it..

Is anyone else young enough to remember the 'ten bob note' ??

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

I remember the term "bent as a four bob bit"

The 20 pence piece kind of buggered that one up

dpb

nobodys as young as you UB now Bills popped his clogs

fatherpierre

It's still in use.

'Fifty sheets' is still used for the price of a night out.

Spoon

I thought he was going to tell us he was constipated when I read the title.

unclebuck

and lewis - I'm 78 years old you know...

I bet you remember the ten bob note.....

fatherpierre

I just remember the pound note...............

England, that is - not the sweaty version

GC8

I still have some crisp one pound notes. I think that they were withdrawn in 1986, but Im not certain.

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

BBC ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1984: Quid notes out - pound coins in

GC8

1988.

Removed.

Yup, Thrupenny bits, tanners, two bob bits. I'm old enough to be £,S,D CWT,LB,Oz at Infants school, and £,p T,KG,G at Juniors, so I buy 3 metres of 2x4 Oh, we still have pound notes here

GC8

Mixed here too. If its hot I need it in degrees F: if its cold I need it in degrees C. In fact, if you told me it was cold in degrees Fahrenheit then I couldnt relate to it.

unclebuck

37/6 is what my first album cost me... That's what they all cost back then.

Which is roughly equal to £2.20 in today's money..

That was a lot!!!

Removed.

Were 78's that expensive, blimey! But was Carruso worth it?

Bubba po

I don't remember the ten bob note in use, but I do remember the half-crown, tanner and thrupenny bit.

fatherpierre

Hard times?

Dan Gleebits

me too

Bubba po

£1.87, I think. Which, in the early seventies, was close to one twentieth of an average working wage. Which works out at about 25 quid in modern terms.

David Lock

37/-6 I think...........

dl (who can still remember the Farthing )

unclebuck

As in - 'nice thrupennies....'




whooeerrr...

Bubba po

No, I was probably about six when the note was phased out.

unclebuck

It was a ferkin' bargin to me at the time... just to be able to get my mitts on Ziggy Stardust or the Dark Side Of The Moon albums....

boomer

...so who remembers the public information films to help everyone understand the new-fangled decimal currency? Didn't Bob Hoskins do some of 'em?

It didn't stop fairgrounds charging six PENCE for catch-a-duck when they had been only sixpence (a tanner) only a few days before

mb

XRS

I couldn't afford to buy LPs, but you could get singles for 6/8 (3 for £1).

I still have a couple of mint 10/- and £1 notes tucked away somewhere.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Same here, I like to think of myself as bilingual

I can remember getting my shilling pocket money and going to the village shop and buying LOADS of sweets with it

eClaire

My first ever vinyl - it has taken pride of place on my living room wall


I'm too young to remember any of this. We still have pound notes up here, but you very rarely get them handed over in change.

PeteBrant

I was born in the year of decimalisation, so I only ever got exposed to new money.

I am grateful to this thread though; I'm going to bookmark it for when I feel old, and need reminding that there are some really old people out there

David Lock

Not forgetting "Bob-a-Job" week where as a young lad in shorts you would go around knocking on stranger's doors asking what you could do for a shilling

How times have changed............. dl