The "How Much?" / "Having a Giraffe!" Café thread...

[Deleted member 1258]

Who remembers the price of beer.
My best is 1/8, one shilling and eight pence.

Yes, when I first had a beer 1/6 one shilling and six pence, I was under age at the time and have never been a drinking man.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I think when I first started drinking in pubs it was 1.50 a pint. We occasionally stretched to Stella if we were flush, that was the only one that hit £2

 

[Profpointy]

I think when I first started drinking in pubs it was 1.50 a pint. We occasionally stretched to Stella if we were flush, that was the only one that hit £2

I seem to remember it being 26 new pence for Brains bitter or dark and 28 pence for SA

 

[Jameshow]

You naughty boy.
My wife thinks I spent £650 out of the boat fund fixing a sail. I gave the guy with the big sewing machine a bottle of "hors taxe" rum that I didn't like for the 15 mins work.
The money evaporated. Assume the rum did too. Say no more.

What boat do you have? We need a boat thread!!

 

[Gwylan]

What boat do you have? We need a boat thread!!

Nobby Noboat now. Swallowed the anchor and got a camper and an E-Bike.

 

[mistyoptic]

I seem to remember it being 26 new pence for Brains bitter or dark and 28 pence for SA

16p a pint for Tartan bitter in the Cardiff union bar when I started at UWIST

 

[Dave7]

Who remembers the price of beer.
My best is 1/8, one shilling and eight pence.

Same as me. Mid 60s I think.

 

[Windle]

I recall when I was first old enough to legally visit drinking establishments (cough), Newcastle Exhibition was 66 pence a pint in the local working men's club, 1986.

 

[Gwylan]

16p a pint for Tartan bitter in the Cardiff union bar when I started at UWIST

At UWIST, that's an echo from the corridors of time. I enrolled at The Welsh CAT and graduated from UWIST.

 

[Beebo]

Uni bar 1993.
Carling and Tetley were £1 a pint for the whole of the year.

 

[ColinJ]

I used to go to the union bar at Lanchester Poly (now Coventry University) and have a night out in the mid-1970s for about £2. That would be for 2*bus fare, 6+ pints, 10 Woodbines, and a bag of chips!

 

[Chris S]

I used to go to my local off licence, get 20 Woodbine and a bottle of Jack Daniel's and still have change from a pound. That was before they had CCTV.

 

[Moon bunny]

I used to go to my local off licence, get 20 Woodbine and a bottle of Jack Daniel's and still have change from a pound. That was before they had CCTV.

Well, I used to go to the off-licence, get six bottles of Guinness, 200 B&H Sovereign, a bottle of Bordeaux red and a packet of condoms, and the shopkeeper would give me £30 to take it away.

 

[Chris S]

£1,555 for a Swatch! They were about £15.55 new.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175197527169

 

[Beebo]

£1,555 for a Swatch! They were about £15.55 new.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175197527169

I can only assume it’s rare and original.
Collectors pay silly money for rare things.