Tony B Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Yeah the old 'Auctioneer's shilling'. You knew if you were buying something posh because it was priced in 'Guineas'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 (edited) you can remember that bananas and apples came in brown paper bags...... Edited September 20, 2009 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 When trainspotting meant spending hours lineside, paper and pencil in hand, hoping to fill in the few gaps you had in the Britannia or Coronation classes, not a cult film.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted September 20, 2009 Author Share Posted September 20, 2009 That was proper money! :n00b: Twelve pennies to a shilling. 20 shillings or 240 pennies to a pound. Half Crowns sixpence, thrupenny bits. Ten bob notes. To explain simply, 6 old pennies would be the equivalent of two and a half new pennies. I dunno education nowadays these young whippersnappers don't know nuffin! Tony - we are talking about getting old - not flipping ancient!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shatters Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 A 50p piece is still a ten bob bit in my world Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 You know you are old when you tell people about the "Mantle man" coming round with his ladder to check the mantles, and wind up the clockwork timer, on the street lights!!!, and all you get back is a blank stare... And I honestly do!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 And the knocker up with his long pole to knock on bedroom windows to get people up for work at t'mill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 You know you are old when you tell people about the "Mantle man" coming round What about the Nightman coming round? (actually that is a bit before my time:-D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 (edited) What about the Nightman coming round? (actually that is a bit before my time:-D) No we never had one of those.....but we never had Night soil either! Edited September 20, 2009 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 ... when you can remember "Woolworth's" in Berkhamstead, with the gas lights going in a power cut...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 when you used to look up at an airliner and it had propellors on it.... Funnily enough on Saturday I was watching Sunderland snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (as usual) and became aware of a (propeller-driven) airliner that had probably just hopped from the Channel Islands. It was flying long, slow, regular circles about our house (at some distance I have to point out) except that on one circuit he passed close in front of, instead of behind, our house. Wor Lass and I had differing opinions as to whether the nose wheel was locked down or not. Didn't hear reports of an emergency at Southampton Airport. I KNOW I am old because I was in the Medical Centre the day the Dead Sea turned up on Sick Parade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Tony - we are talking about getting old - not flipping ancient!!!!! He missed off the Farthing. IIRC only ceased to be legal tender in 1961, when I was at primary school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 (edited) My Dad had a lucky Half-Farthing....though it wasn't still legal tender when he showed it to me... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_farthing_(British_coin) Edited September 21, 2009 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 And no I don't remember the Groat (a 4d coin) or the Half Groat (a 2d coin) even though the groat remained legal tender in British Guyana until 1955.....( when I was one!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 I still do a lot of money in LSD. Ten bob etc. Can't help it. Chocolate bars are definitely smaller...as for Waggon Wheels. I used to get sent down to Woolworths, which for you youngsters, was a popular 20th Century store; to buy biscuits by the bag. They charged less for broken biscuits - the Malted Milks were top class. But my mother insisted only "common people" bought broken biscuits, not the done thing for bus conductresses. When I used to leave the house during any date between 1972 and 1982 in the company of my mate Mike he would always say "Head, Brain, Money,Keys" because he knew what I was like. Now James does it! So maybe I was already senile at that age. I am not yet on the Saga mailing list. But I get lots of invites for cheaper house insurance since I hit the old Hawaii 5-0. MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 I'l lmake sure SAGA get your contact deatils! :cool2: Hey Alien! your paddle plane, was Pontius the pilot? There is an ex Jersey Airways Heron over there that binmbles back and for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 He missed off the Farthing. IIRC only ceased to be legal tender in 1961, when I was at primary school. Damn - you beat me to it!! No ones mentioned (apart from Tony B indirectly with his train spotting) having steam engines on the railways and not being impressed with these new-fangled "diesel -electric" units. Or watching the overhead catenarys being installed..... And if you stop at the Sixties Jack you're nowt but a young whipper-snapper - I have to go back to the mid-Fifties!! :rofl: :rofl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Damn - you beat me to it!! No ones mentioned (apart from Tony B indirectly with his train spotting) having steam engines on the railways and not being impressed with these new-fangled "diesel -electric" units. Or watching the overhead catenarys being installed..... And if you stop at the Sixties Jack you're nowt but a young whipper-snapper - I have to go back to the mid-Fifties!! :rofl: :rofl: You can't blame ME for the train spotting! :argh: In my childhood we didn't have them new fangled things in Jersey!! We had Viscounts and Vanguards and Dart hearald's and HS147's and Argosys and Bristol Frigthers (in you've flown in one you'll know) a couple of Pionairs and some Dackotas. Herons a Dragon Rapide. All paddelers you notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Damn - you beat me to it!! No ones mentioned (apart from Tony B indirectly with his train spotting) having steam engines on the railways and not being impressed with these new-fangled "diesel -electric" units. Or watching the overhead catenarys being installed..... And if you stop at the Sixties Jack you're nowt but a young whipper-snapper - I have to go back to the mid-Fifties!! :rofl: :rofl: Oi that was my post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 When you are in a WWII display and are typing a letter on a typewriter and kids actually see one for the first time and are amazed! This happened to me last weekend, actually it was so remarkable that it was even in the newspaper in the article on the fieldcamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 :n00b: Oi that was my post! It's his age Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodge Deep Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 When you are in a WWII display and are typing a letter on a typewriter and kids actually see one for the first time and are amazed! This happened to me last weekend, actually it was so remarkable that it was even in the newspaper in the article on the fieldcamp. The single most impressive peice of equipment in the arsenal as far as kids are concerned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Next to weapons that is.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodge Deep Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 I dunno... I've done loads of school visits and the M1 and .45 always get a "wow cool" but the typewriter always seems to fire their imaginations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 ... when you can remember getting free school milk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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