Not Wales or Scotland

[Donald]

In England we changed to 'metric' currency in 1971 but it took two years to prise the ten bob notes out of the clenched sporrans north of the border.

1973? 1971? At my age, what's two years.

So what did we do in '73? Oh, that was joining the then European Economic Community (EEC), now the EU - wasn't it?

Now, where have I left my groats? Or, I could give you 6 sheep for your 40D.

[Benjy]

Some of us still hanging on, they might come back into circulation....FREEDOM.....

[Wirefox]

Blimey Bernard that brings back some memories. I remember how rich I felt when I got a couple of these to take on my first holiday to Cumbria...or Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland as it was called then. I always though Westmorland was a far romantic name than Cumbria. Mind you I was born in Lancashire but if I go back to where I was born it's now in Cheshire!!! What is it with Councils and Government.

I don't think you have invader's head on your notes do you? Is it Lord Ilay or some such dignitary. Back in the 70's lot of shops in North Wales would not accept Scottish notes. I never did figure that one out.

[Dave Humphries]

Get F16

I'd recommend an SR-71, longer range and quicker still.

[MiniChris]

I'd recommend an SR-71, longer range and quicker still.

And, outstanding optics!

[arith]

I especially like the Hastings shot... I love images that show a menus of different foods offered in various locales along with the prices they are going for. I have a image somewhere showing the menu of my grandfather's New York City restaurant about the time of the First World War. Wow! A full roast beef meal for twenty five cents!

Here's some information I can derive from a menu...

According to the Richard Crowe Theory of Lager Economics. You can pretty well tell the standard of living of an area by comparing the minimum hourly wage of a working man with the price of a beer. It works pretty well. When I was living in the Philippines in the 1970's beer was too expensive for a lot of low paid working guys. Instead, they drank gin and Mountain Dew. That awful combination was much more affordable since a quart of gin cost only about one U.S. dollar.

By the way; speaking of economics. I consider the U.K. quite progressive for abandoning the English measurement system which we still doggedly cling to. Canada, Australia and New Zealand have also gone over to the metric system, leaving us the only nation that still considers 12 inches to the foot and 16 ounces to the pound. However, when the U.K. took the plunge and switch to metric measurement, why did they not go all the way and convert their currency to a decimal system? Just a question?

Here you go Richard; £1.85 beats that Southern rubbish. £13.00 and I don't know what it is, around here I expect a five course meal for that.

[Camellia]

Here you go Richard; £1.85 beats that Southern rubbish. £13.00 and I don't know what it is, around here I expect a five course meal for that.

Steve

We're being ripped off down here. Aus $3.50 for a cup of coffee or tea. Fish and chips in a cafe? $20. A posh restaurant - $35 - 40. Beer in a cafe $6 - 8 at least. In a pub or a club, $4 -5 for a beer. 6 x 375ml boutique beer from the supermarket or a liquor store is about $20. A sandwich from a cafe $7 - 10.

Maybe that holiday to the UK isn't so expensive after all. Or maybe it's just that our $ is strong at the moment.

R

[Benjy]

Hi Steve,I can remember when I could get 7 pints of light beer and a packet of crisps for one of these,now i couldn,t get the crisps for one cheers Re Scottish notes,if they accepted them in England they would only give you 19/6d for £1 INSTEAD OF 20 SHILLINGS

[arith]

Cor; I went to Lichfield recently, only ten miles south and crisps had gone up 30%, they would cost more than ten bob. Cheers Bernard, I used to live a week on a fiver.

Things are too expensive where you are Raylee, you can get a filling meal such as a pie, chips and peas with free drink here for a fiver, between 12 and 2pm I think some do offers of two for one. You don't have to have chips, you can have other things.

But I can remember going to London ten years ago; a cup of tea was £2.50, an apple from a street vendor £1. But I found a place in the West End where you could get homemade pizza for £1 if you ate it off the premises; and I had a lot of pizza.

[arith]

Some of us still hanging on, they might come back into circulation....FREEDOM.....

Ten bob was worth £5.69 in 1971 according to this:

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/histori...ion-calculator

I used to get paid a few quid for two paper rounds and a job shovelling muck on a farm, but I used to hand it over and got ten bob pocket money.