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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can remember 10 ciggies being less than a pound |
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I can remember when two penny sweets only cost one penny  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Chocolate Freddos being 10p |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.
What else do you guys remember? "
Must be old, can remember that time chips went from 10 to 11p, it was up north |
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By *eardybobMan
over a year ago
the Goldilocks Zone |
37p per litre for 4 star...
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can remember it costing threepence for the bus. In pre decimal coins. X |
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"Chocolate Freddos being 10p"
How much are they now? |
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"20p for the bus......"
The buses were cheap up norf, I can’t remember them ever being below a pound round these parts. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Chocolate Freddos being 10p
How much are they now? "
Just checked Tesco website - 26p |
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"Chocolate Freddos being 10p
How much are they now?
Just checked Tesco website - 26p "
Bugger  |
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"37p per litre for 4 star...
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I can just about remember when it was 40 pence a GALLON!! |
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By *hloetTV/TS
over a year ago
Nottingham |
Unleaded 85p a litre |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
I can remember 20p game of pool 35p portion of chips can of pop 25p single cigarette 7p I used to go as my pal was barred 1/2p mojo be bus travel costing 46p and a prostitute £5 whole night as my friend told me  |
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By *wosWoman
over a year ago
east london |
I have a 2p kids bus ticket somewhere.. |
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Polo mints 10p a roll. There's proof online of packet images so my initial instinct was right!
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By *tue555Man
over a year ago
Passed Beyond Reach |
When you could buy a brand new 4 bedroom detached house a rural neighbourhood for £4000
£2000 per year was a good salary |
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By *9alMan
over a year ago
Bridgend |
I can remember when things were priced in £ S D everything was much cheaper |
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"20p for the bus......
The buses were cheap up norf, I can’t remember them ever being below a pound round these parts. "
It was 28p for a single when I started secondary school! I remember it being 20p at primary school though. Was still only 50p when I left secondary school over here! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember snaps crisps being 8p and the price was on the packet. And I remember 1/2p chews (mojos) I think they were calked |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
When you could buy a house for £500 |
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By *bcums3Couple
over a year ago
lanarkshire |
45p return on the bus |
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A mojo sweets were half a penny each |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
Can remember the things were cheaper and you definitely Got value for money because the size or portions were huge and better quality compared years later |
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"20p for the bus......
The buses were cheap up norf, I can’t remember them ever being below a pound round these parts.
It was 28p for a single when I started secondary school! I remember it being 20p at primary school though. Was still only 50p when I left secondary school over here! "
I think 20p would have got you about 100m down the road. At high school it was £1.20 to get from one side of the city to the other and we don’t have a whole lot of city. |
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"20p for the bus......
The buses were cheap up norf, I can’t remember them ever being below a pound round these parts.
It was 28p for a single when I started secondary school! I remember it being 20p at primary school though. Was still only 50p when I left secondary school over here!
I think 20p would have got you about 100m down the road. At high school it was £1.20 to get from one side of the city to the other and we don’t have a whole lot of city. "
£1.20?! It was still only a quid for a single when I was at uni! There was outrage when it went to £1.20 |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
Cinema tickets less than £3 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I got 50p dinner money and would go to the Chinese and get a chip butting with curry sauce and a can of pop for 45p…
I remember bus fares being 2p for kids then 5p and the swimming pool being 32 p to get into xx |
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Small Margherita pizza on a Saturday in town was a quid..... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Portion of chips when I was first allowed to go on my own was 15p, same price as a Mars bar. First litre of petrol I bought was 49.9p |
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70/80p a litre for diesel when I first got a car. Actual 1p sweets |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
It was cheaper lying then telling the truth which cost a lot more |
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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago
Reading |
Wagon wheels. One used to cost about in old money the old pence |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
It was cheaper walking to school so you had money for alcohol 4 cans for £1:99 |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I can remember 10 ciggies being less than a pound"
Yeah I was a late starter |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.
What else do you guys remember?
Must be old, can remember that time chips went from 10 to 11p, it was up north"
I've noticed food is cheaper up north but wow |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"When you could buy a house for £500"
I was talking about this the other day.. You can't even buy a door for that now.  |
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School dinners 15p per day so 75p for the week. This was 1975 and the food was great. |
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£0.50p
Bottle of pop
1/4 pound of sweets and a toy car.  |
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School dinners a shilling a day, five shillings a week (25p). My parents bought a four bed, detached house with about 3/4 acre for £3,800. The payments were £60 a quarter. When I went to college I rented a bedsit for £8 a week and that included a weekly cleaner |
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10 fags £1.80.
Feul 80p a litre |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"When you could buy a house for £500
I was talking about this the other day.. You can't even buy a door for that now. "
Exactly only those who know the meaning of good old days know |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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10 senior service for 35p from vending machine OUTSIDE newsagents.
Petrol for 87p gallon
Mars bar 10p
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
14p a packet of walkers crisp 20p a quarter of sweets wham bars 10p sugar paper 5p |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember when the bus was 2 1/2p. 10 cigs 17 1/2p...I'm going way back to my childhood...not that I smoked...I've a memory like an elephant |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember my dad sending me to the corner shop to get his fags, ten No6 they were 10p a packet, my first pint of beer was 34p , my dad coming home on a Friday giving my mum his pay packet and saying “ I’ve put a pound of petrol in the car “ and that got him to work all week kidsgrove to crewe |
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When I started smoking a pack of Marlboro was about 45p ( age 15 ) and a baguette was 7pence ( age about 8 when I started going to the shop alone) . I do remember my friend’s dad earning £800 a month around 1980 and thinking how poor they were , I’m not British …so when I moved to the U.K in the mid 80’s , it was a chock to see that earning £70 a week was considered quite a good wage , in Wales . |
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Petrol. 7/6 per gallon (37.5p)  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Wouldn’t get a budgie going .. cheap these days |
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I remember when Nelson Mandela was free. |
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When I started going to the pub in around 1986 a pint of lager was 74p. You could definitely go out with £5 and have a decent night but then I was earning £58.50 / week |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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35p for the bus
10p for a finger of fudge
50p cone of chips
35p Mars bar |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
Edmonton |
One of my earliest memories is my mum picking up me and my sister from school and giving me 10 pence or 2 shillings as most people would still say back then to buy 2 packets of crisps would have been 1974 - 1975 |
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I remember a packet of walkers crisps for 7p and the cheap bastard's would have a sale on !
(See who gets the reference?) |
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I remember you could get on the bus(proper old school London routmaster one's)
Get on at Uxbridge all the way to Shepard's Bush for 2p |
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By *ltrMan
over a year ago
sheffield |
£1..09 a gallon of petrol 97 quid to insure my mini clubman for the year |
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Must be older a pint was 37 p fags 25p for 10 and a packet of polos 2 p |
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By *ribsaMan
over a year ago
A box at end of your bed |
Beer at 62p a pint, petrol at 75p a gallon and my weekly wage of £32 a week. |
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Bloody hell doesn’t all this make you feel,old  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Packet of Polos for 7p |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pint of lager £1.30. Could have a good night on £20 |
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I remember chips for 16p scraps were free and half penny mojos |
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We were that poor we used to live under a stone. |
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Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won't believe you |
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"We were that poor we used to live under a stone. "
You had a stone !!? We dreamed of a stone |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Tyne tunnel 40p and you could pay using any coins !!! |
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By *ltrMan
over a year ago
sheffield |
The forum folk from Sheffield should remember 2p bus rides for under 16s anywhere in Sheffield |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
4 gallons of petrol for £1 1962
1 pint bitter 1 shilling and 3 pence (6p) 1961
My first new mini under £600, 1960 can't remember exact amount.
Newbuild 2 bed semi detatched bungalow £1800 1965
Newbuild 3 bed semi detatched house with garage and central heating £3995 1971
Brand new BMW 520 £1995 1972 |
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By *ribsaMan
over a year ago
A box at end of your bed |
I can remember 2 star petrol and the two stroke oil pump on the forecourts. O those where the days. |
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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago
Solihull and Brentwood |
I can remember monster munch pickled onion flavour....Other flavours were available...being 10p but there was probably twice as much in the packet then, as there is now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Paying 2p for a call in a public phone box  |
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"We were that poor we used to live under a stone.
You had a stone !!? We dreamed of a stone"
we got evicted from our stone, into a cardboard box at side of t' road, all 26 of us. |
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"I can remember 2 star petrol and the two stroke oil pump on the forecourts. O those where the days. "
I remember 4-star leaded petrol with the red pump |
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"I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.
What else do you guys remember? "
Paying 25p for a bag of chips at the local chip shop |
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Beano and Dandy were 2p in early 70s.
My first job in 1984 a pack of 18 cigs in a vending machine were £1. No pound coins in those days so coin mechs were set for 2x50ps. |
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By *ribsaMan
over a year ago
A box at end of your bed |
2p for packet of chipmunk crisps 5p for hedgehog crisps and a king size Mars bar for 45p in the days before to much sugar was bad for you. |
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There used to be a 50 pence shop in Liverpool! |
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I can remember 20 Embassy Regal cigarettes costing 26p. It cost 2p to get the bus into town and When I was a bit older petrol cost 35p per litre. |
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By *reasyMan
over a year ago
Caerphilly |
"37p per litre for 4 star...
I can just about remember when it was 40 pence a GALLON!!"
4 gallons of 4 star was £2.92 when I worked the pumps
God that must have been a long time ago !!! |
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"Snaps 10p"
I remember them when they were 2p.....gulp. |
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I remember 50p for a bag of chips and 20p for a scallop.
Although I'm pretty sure there's lots of things that have gone down in price or a least are a lot more affordable relative to earnings. For example I remember basic school uniform being a struggle for my parents. Yet now you can get like a two pack of school polo shirts from the supermarket about £3. I don't think they were actually that cheap when I was a kid, let alone in relative terms.
But then isn't that the point of progress and capitalism to bring the masses of the developed world increasing cheaper things in far bigger quantities? |
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
I remember beer at 80p per pint and the fury that was caused when it went up by 1p.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A Mars bar cost 30p when I was a kid I think |
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
"A Mars bar cost 30p when I was a kid I think"
And 50% bigger. |
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
The right place |
A packet of crisps was 5p
Petrol was 50p a gallon and you got a free smurf! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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10p or 20p to use the phone box |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've been reading about when Michael Knighton almost bought Man Utd for £20million in 1989. The club is now worth £3bn. |
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When I was 16, I could travel from Coulsdon in Surrey to central London for 20p.
I also remember when Anchor butter was 10p. |
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By *l MateMan
over a year ago
Sheffield Centre |
"Cinema tickets less than £3"
I remember that. I think last year I paid nearly £10 a ticket. |
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
The right place |
"Cinema tickets less than £3
I remember that. I think last year I paid nearly £10 a ticket."
Vue cinema nearest me is still under £5 a ticket |
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By *l MateMan
over a year ago
Sheffield Centre |
"I can remember monster munch pickled onion flavour....Other flavours were available...being 10p but there was probably twice as much in the packet then, as there is now."
Did you ever try spaghetti sauce flavour? Pretty nasty tasting. |
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FAB lolly was a sixpence and a smash lolly was 3d
Decimal, a pint was 32p when I started drinking….. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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2p to get the bus into town, that was a lonnng time ago |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We used to get 1/2p sweets!! |
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By *l MateMan
over a year ago
Sheffield Centre |
"Cinema tickets less than £3
I remember that. I think last year I paid nearly £10 a ticket.
Vue cinema nearest me is still under £5 a ticket "
I shouldn't have gone to Cineworld. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We used to get 1/2p sweets!! "
Ohh yes |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"I remember when Nelson Mandela was free."
Was that cheap |
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I can remember 10 Lambert and Butler being £1.28 |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"A First Class stamp being 24p"
You not remember when they also used the 1/2 pence on stamps |
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Quid for a pack of ten Embassy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Being able to stick £5 in my metro and it lasting me a whole weeks driving! |
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I remember when it was £180 to tax my car, now it’s free. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember when there was a massive thing about petrol going over £1 per litre - utter chaos in fact. Now it's like no one cares lol |
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Lion bars was 9p and was massive |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days |
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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago
STOKE ON TRENT |
"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days "
Go Tesco |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days
Go Tesco "
And then it costs more to park ffs see that pint in my hand?
Cost me a shilling back out of a five pound note!
You gotta earn a lot of money to save a little these days. I'm feeling financially embarrassed.
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"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days "
Just do it on a lamp post |
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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago
STOKE ON TRENT |
"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days
Go Tesco
And then it costs more to park ffs see that pint in my hand?
Cost me a shilling back out of a five pound note!
You gotta earn a lot of money to save a little these days. I'm feeling financially embarrassed.
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Walk its free |
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By *stwoCouple
over a year ago
anywhere |
Penny dauntless. OLD PENNY |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days
Just do it on a lamp post "
Facking right |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days
Go Tesco
And then it costs more to park ffs see that pint in my hand?
Cost me a shilling back out of a five pound note!
You gotta earn a lot of money to save a little these days. I'm feeling financially embarrassed.
Walk its free"
What 3 miles lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can remember when a bale of hay for my horse driven cart cost two rabbits from the village poacher |
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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago
STOKE ON TRENT |
"You can't even take a piss for a shilling these days
Go Tesco
And then it costs more to park ffs see that pint in my hand?
Cost me a shilling back out of a five pound note!
You gotta earn a lot of money to save a little these days. I'm feeling financially embarrassed.
Walk its free
What 3 miles lol "
Lazy |
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By *stoppMan
over a year ago
Durham |
89p for a gallon of 2stoke in my moped, happy days.. |
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5p for chips when I was a kid and a 2p lucky bag which had loads of sweets and a toy or two. |
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By *r TriomanMan
over a year ago
Chippenham Malmesbury area |
Back in 2004, when I was in the Army,it cost 50p for a single whiskey in the Mess. Best bit was, all singles were actually double measures |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In 1968 a whole evening out with my girlfriend, cinema, drinks, bus fares would not come to to more than 15/-.
For those that do not remember that was shorthand for 15 shillings. (75p) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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50p a shot. Ended up in hospital. My body is still paying for that 25 years later! |
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"I can remember paying 10 pence for a game of pool, around 50p for a packet of chips wrapped in newspapers.. £1.34p for ten fags and when I was seventeen I walked into a pub and I paid £1 a pint.
What else do you guys remember? "
My first pint cost me 96p. |
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A 10p loosey from the shop opposite school if you didn't have £1.50 for a full pack of ciggies.
Got a free match with it, too. |
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I remember beer at 50p a pint and I was gutted when it went up to 52p. |
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10 embassy number one and still enough for some chips from the school canteen from a pound dinner money. |
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"I remember beer at 50p a pint and I was gutted when it went up to 52p. "
I remember a pint of mild £0.45, bitter £0.55 and lager £0.65.
I was a mild drinker in those days |
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I remember taking empty R Whites lemonade bottles back to the minimart to get the thruppence deposit back on them...
....and handing over the threepenny bits at the newsagents for Beano and Dandy comics... |
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£7/2/6 (seven pounds two shillings and sixpence) was my wages before stoppages for a 42 hour week at Raleigh in Nottingham.
Petrol, 4 gallons for £1 |
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"Chocolate Freddos being 10p"
This! |
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Bag of chips from the chippy was 17p |
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I remember buying a pint of mild for 64p.
I remember driving when petrol went over a pound a gallon.
And I can remember when all sorts of things were 99 and a half pence. |
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"37p per litre for 4 star...
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I remember when it was 37p a gallon |
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over a year ago
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Going to the cafe for dinner and having beans, sausage and chips, with a cuppa for 12&half pence, or going to the Saturday morning pictures with 25p getting a bus there into the pic's and a portion of chips afterwards |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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when i was at grammer school 2 and a half pence got a bag of crisps. |
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"I remember buying a pint of mild for 64p.
I remember driving when petrol went over a pound a gallon.
And I can remember when all sorts of things were 99 and a half pence. "
First time I had a drink in a pub, underage, it was 9 pence for a pint of mild, bitter was 11p. |
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Petrol at 22 pence a gallon or 5p a litre. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1/2 a penny mojo sweets ! |
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"Chocolate Freddos being 10p"
Omg. This |
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"1/2 a penny mojo sweets !"
The shop keeper used to hate us asking for a pounds worth ?? |
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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago
Wakefield |
When chips were 4d for a small bag or 6d for a big bag |
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I remember when hooker's were 50gilders in Amsterdam. |
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By *lipy123TV/TS
over a year ago
Birmingham |
A sixpence for a bag of chips that's in old money lol |
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I remember a regular bus ride that I took was thrupence (old money) |
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"I remember a packet of walkers crisps for 7p and the cheap bastard's would have a sale on !
(See who gets the reference?)"
Sorry I'm meant
" 7p? And ye no be having a sale?"
Does this help with the reference? |
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I remember during the war, you could go to the cinema, buy a three course meal for you and your dame,buy a new suit and a new car and still have change out of a fiver! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"1/2 a penny mojo sweets !
The shop keeper used to hate us asking for a pounds worth ??"
lol on a Saturday when you had your pocket money ! Lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Im either way to old or a great memory embassy no1 48p stones bitter 42p Carling 56p chip butty 22p proper used to get pissed on a fiver |
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By *LiamMan
over a year ago
Midlands |
Pitta bread chips and a sausage 90p |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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I remember the day the bus fare went up from 2p to 2.5p. We had 5p for both fares and we used to spend the penny to get sweets.
We bought our sweets, got on the bus and didn't have enough for our fare. The driver let us get on and paid the penny. I think the sight of an 8 year old and barely 7 year old looking at him terrified we couldn't get home may have swayed it. |
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When I passed my test you could fill your tank from almost empty for £20... more than twice that now.
I also remember half pence and half penny chews |
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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago
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2p to use a phone box, I remember that.
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"2p to use a phone box, I remember that.
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Yep… and always stank of piss..!! |
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I can remember bus fare being 10p from St. Helens to Liverpool.
Petrol being 65p a litre.
Cans of drink being 25p, that included top deck lager shandy as well. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"2p to use a phone box, I remember that.
Yep… and always stank of piss..!!"
And full of calling cards, offering all sorts of 'delights'.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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things i remember as a kid.
corona fizzy drink i use to get 10p back when i returned the bottle.
10p got me a freddo.
bubble gum sticks which cut the inside of your mouth but you wanted the star wars card. |
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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago
Durham, North Yorkshire and can travel |
A pint for 80p
20 half pence chews for 10p
Yep, we're old |
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"2p to use a phone box, I remember that.
Yep… and always stank of piss..!!
And full of calling cards, offering all sorts of 'delights'.
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With the phone book on a string |
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"things i remember as a kid.
corona fizzy drink i use to get 10p back when i returned the bottle.
10p got me a freddo.
bubble gum sticks which cut the inside of your mouth but you wanted the star wars card."
Who would have thought, that we actually recycled stuff years ago. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1/2p chews and 5p deposit refund for your empties. |
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"1/2 a penny mojo sweets !
The shop keeper used to hate us asking for a pounds worth ?? lol on a Saturday when you had your pocket money ! Lol "
Haha yes that’s right. We were also allowed to buy our mums red band cigarettes that were about 89p for 10 |
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"When I passed my test you could fill your tank from almost empty for £20... more than twice that now.
I also remember half pence and half penny chews "
when I passed my test lessons were 3quid and a gallon was just over a quid cost me less than hundred quid for license lessons and test |
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