Saw this on another (musicians) forum, where it ran into 6 pages, just wondering how many old fogies there are on here.

with the pound in the state it's in and the euro poised on the other side of the channel ready to mount an invasion, (sounds familiar)

who remembers pounds/shillings and pence, was decimialisation a con or progression?

Edited October 22, 201015 yr by SUBS

oh bloody charming..............

Think I was about 7 when it all changed.

TBH we were taught decimal over imperial anyway so was not an issue to change over. Nan had a great difficulty ( born 1904 ) but soon cottoned on!

Still remember a coke costing 6p. Wagon wheels were mashousive.

The 1/2 p coin was a rip off, every corner shop stuck one on the price!

Way befote my time but it sounds like a complicated system

Your just 2 bob my son...................

£.S.d

New all this new fangled stuff, what's was wrong with good old English groats and gold peuces is what I'd ask?

Still say it was the biggest 'stealth' devaluation of the £ in history. as is all the other Euro metric kack

We did not change currency, more sold our proud identity and heritage. They suggest take lessons from history, anyone notice if the Romans changed there's for a conquered nations currency?

Arfur

Way befote my time but it sounds like a complicated system

Didnt seem complicated when you were growing up with it.

12d = 1 Shilling (1/-)

20 Shillings = £1

so 2/- was the same as a 10p, 10/- was same as 50p, just a coin instead of a ten bob note.

The odd ones out really were 8 half crowns (2 1/2 shillings) = £1

and threepence or sixpence pieces.

Simple really, no more compicated tha Yards, Feet and inches. wouldnt have wanted to do the VAT returns with old money though, no calculators in them days. Then again, there was no VAT either.

a pint was 1/11d when I started drinking, and a gallon of Petrol was 5/11- so you can see that the pennies were more important than they are now. And I'm only in my mid 50s

Edited October 22, 201015 yr by SUBS

Was`nt the thrupenny bit the new 20p coin in shape?

Silver sixpence was`nt it. Slung em in the xmas pud.

Just remembered calling someone 2 bob was the same as calling them a C**T, soz James................lol

And WAGON WHEELS WERE BIGGER THEN

Was`nt the thrupenny bit the new 20p coin in shape?

Silver sixpence was`nt it. Slung em in the xmas pud.

Just remembered calling someone 2 bob was the same as calling them a C**T, soz James................lol

And WAGON WHEELS WERE BIGGER THEN

Even bigger when I were a lad.

if 10p saw 2 bob, how could 20p be 3d ?

I thought 2 bob bit was cockerney for tit.

Subs you the opposite of arf but similar age then?

Even bigger when I were a lad.

if 10p saw 2 bob, how could 20p be 3d ?

I thought 2 bob bit was cockerney for tit.

You missed my point, I meant the shape was like a 20p coin today.

2 bob has several definitions most popular is S h i t, then tit. Lastly the version I mentioned.