When I were a lad...

[The Peanut Roaster]

Razzle used to be a £1. On average, that could produce 8 fiddles a month. 12.5p a fiddle. Now i'd be looking at forking out £2 a time to manhandle myself without mercy, and it just doesn't seem worth it. I've had a chat with my imagination about coming up with some top-notch still-shot filth, but it's not what it once was either.

 

[The Grockle]

Razzle used to be a £1. On average, that could produce 8 fiddles a month. 12.5p a fiddle. Now i'd be looking at forking out £2 a time to manhandle myself without mercy, and it just doesn't seem worth it. I've had a chat with my imagination about coming up with some top-notch still-shot filth, but it's not what it once was either.

Your wank bank has done an rbs, i feel for you

 

[OzMike]

I remember buying a pint for 35p and a gallon of petrol for 37p, when we were at school we used to nip over road and buy 5 Park Drive from Woolvens for 1 shilling (5p) and smoke them behind bike shed.

 

[Trufflehound]

mars bars 6d , smiths crisps 3d , black jacks or fruit salads 8 for a 1d.

Mars bar 6d(old money!),Crunchie4d,Polos 2d.My first pint of bitter cost 1/6d,I think and Mild was 3d cheaper.Sweet prices circa early 1960's and booze mid 60's!!Oh yes,Smiths crisps 4d a packet!

You were being ripped off for your Mars Bars then - they were never 6d round my way (Westdene). They were 5d at the time of decimalisation, then went straight to 2p. Mind you, it wasn't very long after that they went up to 2½p, which I considered a bloomin' swizz.

I also got 8 fruit salads and black jacks for 1d though. Obviously they had a more universally applied pricing system...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I gave up drinking Guinness when it went up to 2s 8d a pint.

Wasn't that long ago when we all resolved to give up drinking if beer ever hit two quid a pint

 

[bhaexpress]

I remember when a packet of Polos cost 2.5d.

 

[Trufflehound]

I remember when a packet of Polos cost 2.5d.

2.5d?

Surely you mean "tupp'nce 'ayp'ny"??

 

[OzMike]

Does anyone remember the Tonibell ice cream van who used to sell a 'saucey tanner', cone shaped ice cream wrapped in paper with jam in.
Cost a 'tanner' or six old pence. By gum that takes me back.

 

[BLOCK F]

You were being ripped off for your Mars Bars then - they were never 6d round my way (Westdene). They were 5d at the time of decimalisation, then went straight to 2p. Mind you, it wasn't very long after that they went up to 2½p, which I considered a bloomin' swizz.

I also got 8 fruit salads and black jacks for 1d though. Obviously they had a more universally applied pricing system...

I was sure they were 6d,although I stand to be corrected!Any other views from old gits like me on the price of Mars Bars?

 

[BLOCK F]

I was sure they were 6d,although I stand to be corrected!Any other views from old gits like me on the price of Mars Bars?

Have just GOOGLED it and up came a picture of a Mars wrapper showing a price of 7d (including tax) in 1960!!Don,t know how you got them so cheap...perhaps they were pre -war stock!!

 

[Trufflehound]

Have just GOOGLED it and up came a picture of a Mars wrapper showing a price of 7d (including tax) in 1960!!Don,t know how you got them so cheap...perhaps they were pre -war stock!!

Maybe that was the adult price.

I was only 8 when we went decimal (or "nearly nine" as I would have admitted to at the time).

 

[Playing On The Grit]

When I was growing up in the late 70s Polos were 8p and you took the packet from one of those twisty, kind of s-shaped plastic holders and the other packets all moved forward one place. Seemed like magic to me at the time!

And back then if you went to the "little shop" as we called it all the stock was behind the counter on huge bookcase type shelves and Betty or Eric got the things you wanted down for you. No self service in those days!

 

[drew]

33 years ago. 35p to stand on the south terrace (junior price) and 15p for a match day programme.

How times have changed.

 

[cheeseroll]

33 years ago. 35p to stand on the south terrace (junior price) and 15p for a match day programme.

How times have changed.

33 years ago, free entry under the corrugated iron fence to the East Terrace..

 

[plymouth nige]

remember buying a pint for 35p and a gallon of petrol for 37p, when we were at school we used to nip over road and buy 5 Park Drive from Woolvens for 1 shilling (5p) and smoke them behind bike shed.

5 Park Drive and a box of matches for 10d out of your 1s dinner money!!

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I'm not 100% on the price of mars bars but i reckon 6-8d was about right. Overnight on D Day, 15th Feb 1971, that price was 'slashed' to 3 new pence, bargain, what

Except 1 new pence + 2.4 old pence so the mars, and indeed nearly every other commodity, had gone up.

It was at this time that I had to choose between sweets & fags as i couldn't afford both. Glad i chose sweets!

 

[dougdeep]

I remember when Watneys Mild was 11d. And petrol was 4s 9d a gallon.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I remember curly wurlys were 8d in old money , with decimalisation the price was 3 and a half pence. so 3 bars cost 2s (or 10p) before D Day and 10 and a half pence afterwards.

 

[Winker]

My dad used to fill up the Morris Minor with four gallons of petrol - give the petrol pump attendant (Remember them?) £1 and tell him to keep the change. 6d I think!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I could name several punters on here who got into Scunthorpe for under a tenner despite being very clearly adults and by no stretch of the imagination students.

No, not in 1990, this season

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