50th Anniversary this coming Monday. Anyone know what it is?

[Brains]

50 years ago on Monday, we switched from LSD to £ and pence with nothing in between. The big D-Day! I was only 12 so well able to make the arithmetical switch in my mind but of course, the Spitfire and White Cliffs of Dover brigade still think everything doubled in cost overnight!

And 51% of the population of England no doubt what to return to £.S.d with immediate effect!

 

[slowmotion]

We still have some inherited household cleaning products that have "old money" price stickers.

 

[cookiemonster]

On the topic of money....
Did you know that the Scottish banknotes often seen circulating especially in Northern England are not legal tender and have no value at all, apart from the paper they are printed on.

They are legal tender as they have 'Pounds Sterling' on them. Therefore, perfectly legal.

 

[Pale Rider]

the Spitfire and White Cliffs of Dover brigade still think everything doubled in cost overnight!

There was a few stories at the time of companies rounding up the price of their goods when converting to the new money.

Usually only a fraction of an old penny was 'lost', but someone worked out it came to a decent sum for the likes of Mars and their eponymous bar.

 

[MntnMan62]

I was going to say the Ali-Frazier fight.

 

[PaulB]

And like one of those questions on 'House of Games', "What year was the term 'new pee' last used, as in Fifty new p?"

 

[Drago]

Thought they were now "plastic".

They werent plastic 15 odd years ago when I sold the bike.

The Bank of England reckon Scottish notes aren't legal tender in England.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/kno...tes aren't legal,aren't legal tender anywhere.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Yes, I remember, I'd just left the navy and was working in a factory stores.

 

[Drago]

Not the Quartermaster Stores?

 

[randynewmanscat]

I worked on the switch.
Banks shut for two days.
If anyone can remember £.s.d they will be very glad we did switch.

Rightly consigned to history, only Express readers would welcome that and imperial weights and measures back. I know someone who would still argue that imperial precision measurement is still the natural way given half the chance.

 

[JtB]

I can remember in school having difficulty learning how to add in £/s/d and I’d just about got the hang of it when the teacher told me that in a few years everything would be changing and there’d be 5 pence in a shilling