Another feeling old thread - pre-decimal currency

[Dirk]

Since when did haircuts have a number ?

Since the 'Skinhead' days.

 

[further]

Thanks for making it clear

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Since when did haircuts have a number ?

I made the switch to the numerical hair levelling system when it started falling out.

Lovely Wife does mine - according to her the savings made over a barber visit offsets the astronomical amount of money her hairdresser charges her for titivating her somewhat more luxuriant tresses.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I just about remember farthings from the days when fruit salad chews were 4 to the 1d

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Couldn't find an image of the old wrappers.

Blackjacks 4 for 1d, quarters of sweets for 6d.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I made the switch to the numerical hair levelling system when it started falling out.

Lovely Wife does mine - according to her the savings made over a barber visit offsets the astronomical amount of money her hairdresser charges her for titivating her somewhat more luxuriant tresses.

Local barber does mine for a fiver.

 

[gbb]

6d, sixpence, for a bag of chips when we were kids. A once a week, possibly thursday night iirc.
Mars bars used to be the same.

Bag of chips now, in excess of a quid. Mars bar...probably half that price.

 

[Drago]

I only have the vaguest recollection of pre decimal currency, as I only pre date it by a few years. Misty memories of grandma handing over a groat and half a pig for my weekly comic.

 

[hopless500]

Im 51 and dont remember pre decimal let alone wtf half a crown is so a 30 year old certainly wont.

Same here. I vaguely remember buying 2nd hand books with old money prices crossed through but only ever used decimal.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

6d, sixpence, for a bag of chips when we were kids. A once a week, possibly thursday night iirc.
Mars bars used to be the same.

Bag of chips now, in excess of a quid. Mars bar...probably half that price.

Fish and chips a once a week treat, usually on a Friday night, and only if my Dad was getting plenty of overtime. I remember chips at fourpence and then going up to sixpence, fish was about a shilling or a shilling and sixpence.

 

[Dirk]

I used to be given 2 bob (10p) on Saturday to go swimming at Sparkhill baths and to get my dinner on the way home in 1966. A tanner (6d /2.5p) to get into the swimming baths and one and six (1s6d /7.5p) for fish and chips. It used to be 'Six of chips' for years.

 

[raleighnut]

It still galls me that my first couple of years of proper school (i.e. not playing in the sand-pit or splashing paint on each other) were basically wasted.

L S.D "Nah forget all that, we're going decimal", feet and inches, "Nah it's Metric now"

 

[oldfatfool]

Ah a penneth of fish and a haypeth of chips.

 

[PaulB]

My first ever pint was 15 pence. That's NEW pence thank yew! And the talk was of organised boycotting of pubs if a pint ever went above the magical ten bob mark!

 

[numbnuts]

My first weeks wage £4 4/- 7pence

 

[JtB]

I remember at school having difficulty learning how to add pounds, shillings and pence and I'd just about got the hang of it when the teacher said in a few years time there'll be five pence in the shilling - not the most helpful of comments.