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Post by Sparky on Feb 12, 2020 16:20:49 GMT
I don't think penny sweets have been a thing for quite a while now. I remember getting them very occasionally from a little shop near my primary school but they definitely don't have them now. I did see some in Cornwall last summer but they were all at least 10p. That's inflation!
I've seen a couple of 'Traditional Sweet Shops' about - with all the jars on shelves and everything weighed on old scales. The places aren't cheap!
A couple of markets still have the cheap sweet stalls.
A lot of the sweets aren't the same these days.
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Post by Cartman on Feb 12, 2020 21:07:50 GMT
When I was at junior school, I used to pass a corner paper shop on cross lane in Radcliffe (near the LoM location at the site of the paper mill) which had a penny tray of sweets. This was pennies in old money BTW!
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Post by Three Litre on Feb 12, 2020 21:21:17 GMT
Old pennies were big heavy coins. Must have cost ten pennies to make one!
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Post by Sparky on Feb 13, 2020 10:45:17 GMT
When I was at junior school, I used to pass a corner paper shop on cross lane in Radcliffe (near the LoM location at the site of the paper mill) which had a penny tray of sweets. This was pennies in old money BTW! Gene & co may have brought their Lollies there.
One shop I used to go in, on the way to school had white paper 10p bags ready made up laid out on a tray. It was always a gamble on what you'd get in them - and the shop keeper wouldn't let you open the bags to see what was in them before your brought them. He refused to sell to my brother, after he accused him of filling the bags with the shit sweets he wanted to get rid of.
Outside the shop, we'd be trading sweets. (2 coke bottles for a Refresher) A mate got into a punch up over a couple of Sherbert Flying Saucers.....
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Post by Sam Tyler on Feb 15, 2020 21:41:09 GMT
Going back to the subject of decimalisation, today marks the 49th anniversary of the change and here's a Public Information Film to help those still struggling with the conversion:
And here's another one with a few familiar faces:
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Post by Sparky on Feb 16, 2020 9:04:39 GMT
Going back to the subject of decimalisation, today marks the 49th anniversary of the change and here's a Public Information Film to help those still struggling with the conversion.
Decimalisation was very slightly before my time. Though even by the late 70s people were still talking in old money - "Lend us a couple of bob" etc.... My Nan certainly did.
When the change happened - is it true that prices were rounded up?
I love the PIFs, there is one that was used in the "I love 1971" BBC series about 20 years ago - accompanied by a song, which sounds like it was performed by "The Scaffold". Not been able to find that one!
Something like "£ S D is dead and gone, today is D say minus one".....
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Post by Three Litre on Feb 16, 2020 10:06:30 GMT
Going back to the subject of decimalisation, today marks the 49th anniversary of the change and here's a Public Information Film to help those still struggling with the conversion.
Decimalisation was very slightly before my time. Though even by the late 70s people were still talking in old money - "Lend us a couple of bob" etc.... My Nan certainly did.
When the change happened - is it true that prices were rounded up?
I love the PIFs, there is one that was used in the "I love 1971" BBC series about 20 years ago - accompanied by a song, which sounds like it was performed by "The Scaffold". Not been able to find that one!
Something like "£ S D is dead and gone, today is D say minus one".....
Afraid it wasn't before my time, I was born on '59! Don't recall hearing of too many problems, undoubtedly there were though. Anyone remember the change to North Sea gas at a similar time? Great plumes of fire in the streets as they burnt of the old gas.
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Post by Cartman on Feb 16, 2020 10:12:53 GMT
Yes, I remember decimalisiation too, I was 11 and towards the end of junior school. I also remember the public information film with the Scaffold. My gran, for several years afterwards used to translate into old money too!
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Feb 16, 2020 18:32:00 GMT
It was on the day I was born! But yeah I remember my dad also, "out of interest" converting the new pence into pounds, shillings and pence, after looking at the cost of things, like me and my brother sweets he bought us around 10 years later!
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Post by Sam Tyler on Feb 26, 2020 12:52:05 GMT
Things I don't get:
Whistling.
I've never been one for it, never enjoyed hearing it, always found the sound to be piercing, and never understood why people think that their ability to whistle can provide any fulfilling entertainment for those around. Tunes are seldom recognisable and if you actually recognize it then the whistler is more often than not completely tone deaf.
There is a bloke in our office that started it today, I've no idea what the tune was, but it was instantly irritating and I was not the only one to think that way. Thankfully he gave up after the first tune but it was like being subjected to the very worst ring-tone and a persistent caller.
The one allowance I will make however, is for the humorous little whistle that we used to hear from Tom Good in The Good Life - which is why whistling is in this thread and not Room 101.
Sam
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