The price we paid

[BensGrandad]

I had an Old Morris 8 that I paid £8.10s for and used to put 10s of petrol in it twice a week. The day before my wedding. June 1865, I bought an Austin A40 Devon for £25 froma company called Triad Engineering who were ona side street near the open market in London Road. I took the car to the pub The Swan in Worthing and got well pissed as one did on your stag night and to this day cannot remember which pub I left it at and have never seen it since that day. Like a fool I left the log book and receipt in the glove box and didnt remember the Reg No. Those were the days.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

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[Djmiles]

I remember when petrol was less than a £1 a litre

I only passed my test 5 years ago, and it was 85p a litre!

 

[skipper734]

I had an Old Morris 8 that I paid £8.10s for and used to put 10s of petrol in it twice a week. The day before my wedding. June 1865, I bought an Austin A40 Devon for £25 froma company called Triad Engineering who were ona side street near the open market in London Road. I took the car to the pub The Swan in Worthing and got well pissed as one did on your stag night and to this day cannot remember which pub I left it at and have never seen it since that day. Like a fool I left the log book and receipt in the glove box and didnt remember the Reg No. Those were the days.

I bought this from Triad £25 in 1963. Paid 10/- a week to a HP firm with offices on the first floor in the building on the corner of Queens Road and Church Street.

 

[Smith DID score]

I think the FA Cup final ticket for our visit was £6-50 - wonder what they paid this weekend?

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

I think the FA Cup final ticket for our visit was £6-50 - wonder what they paid this weekend?

I remember the replay was £4.00, because I queued all night and bought 4, and then went to back of the queue ( by now under the bridge ) and sold 3 of them for £8 each.

The profit paid for enough alchohol for me to be arrested at Victoria Station by the SPG for being drunk & disorderly and therefore miss said replay.

Ah, youth...............

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

i think it was 30p to get in the chicken run, 10p for ten number six and 10p for half a mild
down the Crown and Anchor,all in approx 1974.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Victoria park

WHO RECALLS MILK MACHINES,YOU COULD BUY A CARTOON OF MILK FOR SIXPENCE TWO AND A HALF PENCE,SOMETIMES YOU GOT YOUR MONEY BACK!!!

 

[BensGrandad]

WHO RECALLS MILK MACHINES,YOU COULD BUY A CARTOON OF MILK FOR SIXPENCE TWO AND A HALF PENCE,SOMETIMES YOU GOT YOUR MONEY BACK!!!

Or Push Button B on the telephone coin boxes hoping somebody had forgotten when they made a call.

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

10 b&h £1.10

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I gave up trying to learn to drive when lessons went up from £1.99 an hour to £2.99 an hour.

 

[The Grockle]

10 b&h £1.10

1993?

 

[Bobby's Gull]

My parents paid something stupid like £2000 for a three bedroom house

 

[withdeanwombat]

I rememember The 1d programme at Spurs which was 1 piece of foolscap paper, bitter 1/6 a pint, haddock and chips 1/10. The only drawback is that I was earning £8 10s a week before tax and NI, and my Mum took £2 10s a week housekeeping.

Similar.

But I was rich beyond dreams in those far off days.


AND England won the World Cup under a decent regime.

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

Pretty sure it was 70p to get in the North Stand in about 1977 ...

You could have a night on the town, fish and chips, sign a striker and still have change from a fiver. Aye, them were the days

 

[Durlston]

10 b&h £1.10

It was around 1991. The older lads used to buy ciggies if we gave them the money. I got caught in school when i was 13 by a teacher - Mrs Carr, who was fit. She taught English and PSVE - f*** knows what it stood for but it was more or less sex education. Probably the nicest teacher we had at that school at the time.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

A pint of cider at the Alliance in Edward Street ... 1s 4d (just under 7p).

Weekly rent for a three-bedroomed furnished house in Telscombe Village ... £6 6s - split three ways, that was £2.10 each. And there was a bloke called Reg who kept the garden tidy included in the rent. This was in 1969-70.

I moved out of there to go and live in Italy, where the local wine (now marketed worldwide as Rosso di Montalcino, currently on special offer - reduced from £15 a bottle to £7.82 - at Bibendum) cost 200 lire for two litres (7p a litre at the exchange rate that then applied).

When I came back to Brighton, in 1972, I bought a Mk I Cortina for £50.

 

[bristolseagull]

20 fags for £2.30 and decent pills for £2

 

[OzMike]

Lager 35p a pint.
Does anybody remember the Tonibell Saucy Tanner ice cream, cost 6d (that's old pennies for you young whipersnappers).

 

[Return of the Rev]

When the world made sense

My parents paid something stupid like £2000 for a three bedroom house

STUPID? SOUNDS A GREAT BUY,ANY MORE ON THE MARKET