February 15, 20215 yr I used to get a Tanner spends at decimalisation time and knew exactly what sweets that bought me. A week later, clutching y 2 1/2p I ended up having to put stuff back. Bullshit it was the same value! It’s scarred me for life being laughed at by the newsagent, Francis Fucking Walkden for thinking I could afford my sweets.
February 15, 20215 yr Author 13 minutes ago, MickyD said: I used to get a Tanner spends at decimalisation time and knew exactly what sweets that bought me. A week later, clutching y 2 1/2p I ended up having to put stuff back. Bullshit it was the same value! It’s scarred me for life being laughed at by the newsagent, Francis Fucking Walkden for thinking I could afford my sweets. I've been scarred for life from the penny chews and arrows... my rear molars are all amalgam with no roots left
February 15, 20215 yr I left school Christmas 1970 in pounds shillings and pence and started work 22 February 1971 in pounds and pence. I didn't know what the fuck had happened.
February 15, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, Francis Fogarty said: I left school Christmas 1970 in pounds shillings and pence and started work 22 February 1971 in pounds and pence. I didn't know what the fuck had happened. I used to be as happy in £sd as £&p and also as happy in feet and inches as mm or cm and gallons & litres but miles and Km requires some stopping and thinking about.
February 15, 20215 yr 11 minutes ago, MickyD said: I used to be as happy in £sd as £&p and also as happy in feet and inches as mm or cm and gallons & litres but miles and Km requires some stopping and thinking about. I started work in a paper mill office so measurements there were metric anyway so apart from school maths my transition was easy.
February 16, 20215 yr On 15/02/2021 at 11:17, Spider said: Old money sounds like a load of characters from a Dickens novel I;ve got a tin full of old money, farthings, ha'pennys, pennies, threepenny bits, tanners, bobs, 2 bobs, half crowns, crowns and a lot of the silver money is pre 1930, grandkids love playing with them
February 16, 20215 yr Silver coins minted before 1947 are 50% silver... Before 1921 they're 92.5% - in other words sterling silver (925 silver).
February 16, 20215 yr Similarly, imperial measurements and metric. Like decimalisation, I was brought up with both. As an engineer, you had to be familiar with both units of measurement. I once took some drawings to the Czech Republic with imperial measurements for a quotation. They might as well have been hieroglyphics. What is 21” 7/16” asked the Czech estimator. I spent the night in a hotel converting to metric.
February 17, 20215 yr The only metric i remotely understand is that 50mph = 80 kph, 6ft fence = c1.8m and 4 pints milk = 2.2 litres. After that I need google.
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