Let's return to the old money.

[GetAGrip]

School dinners were 2/6 a week. I remember my Mum counting it out into the little brown 'school dinner' envelope on a Monday morning.

Wow, I thought you were way way younger than that! I remember school dinners being 1/-d a day, so that would be 5 bob for the week.

 

[stuee147]

You're a young whipper-snapper then! When I started driving it was sold in gallons..........

do they not still sell fuel by the litre ????
i know iv not had a car for a while but its always been sold by the litre hasn't it ??

stuee

 

[sight-pin]

I was earning £4 a week mid sixties, when a pint of 'IPA' was 1/5p or a pint of 'Red Barrel' was 1/7p. That's around 15 pints for quid, Hate to think how much 15 pints is in a disco now lol

 

[vernon]

What was better than getting the sixpence in the christmas pud

Getting the christmas pud for sixpence innit.

 

[Archie_tect]

We got threepenny bits, in our pud at school, wrapped in tin foil.
Edit: Mortified.

 

[Archie_tect]

ooh, posh...

 

[Archie_tect]

Has the NE gone metric yet, Archie?

Not yet, it only snows on the 12th.... unlike darn sarf where it snows on the 10th.

 

[sight-pin]

Remember the school milk in the bottles? Yuk!, then those triangular milk cartons they brought in instead? it was always warm. Yuk!

 

[Saluki]

Wow, I thought you were way way younger than that! I remember school dinners being 1/-d a day, so that would be 5 bob for the week.

Sorry. I am 50 going on 22. Apparently I am a bit irreverent at the best of times. I can only just remember dinners in shillings. OH has just told me that they were 7/6 a week. So that's OK then. It was a Forces school so we might have been subsidised.

I was nearly 6 when decimilisation happened.

 

[Archie_tect]

Jesmond.... [tick]

 

[Archie_tect]

School meals were 1' a day at primary and junior school... 25p a week... wow! went up to 7' a week when I went to the 'big' school and still remember handing over my 35p after it went metric in 1971.

 

[Archie_tect]

Ah the joys of long multiplication and division doing sums with money...

 

[sight-pin]

Ah the joys of long multiplication and division doing sums with money...

Our school had all the mod cons, we all had computers, Think they was called an Abacus

 

[Archie_tect]

We all got a school slide rule in 1972, with log tables...

 

[mr messy]

We all got a school slide rule in 1972, with log tables...

Did you have a slate board on your log table?