h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In British old money = £:s:p
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/moneyold.htm

years back a packet of 25grm used to cost 6p or sixpence, now in decimal money and in 2010 they are 30p give or take a pence, BUT! that is 6 shillings old money, so 6 bob for a packet ofgood value or what


what's your memories of goods in old money and now 30 odd year of increases of prices - still good value for what you get ??? eh!

I can't believe that I now pay over £1 for a loaf of bread !

I can't remember back that* far... but a pint used to be £2 or less... (often still £1 where I drunk, per pint), less than 15 years ago so 10\% or more inflation on that per year...cigarettes... well they've gone up about %400 or more in about the same period
Bus fairs, have done a couple hundred percent increase in some parts of teh country in the past five years or less (oh, I forgot, due to global warming we're trying to discourage public transport and get people moving more towards each travelling in their own individual car in order to save the plannet)

I remember getting into the pictures for 60c as a kid. Don't know the exchange rate back then - now that would be 20p I guess.

i remember when it was 3DM to the pound and a bottle of grolsh in the naafi was a mark

3 bottles(flip top ones)for a £1

I dont remember old money, but I do remember going into the shop with 50p, buying a Mars bar, a Dime bar and coming out with change...

I also remember when penny sweets actually cost a penny...

Buying 4 'Black Jacks' or 'Fruit Salad' for 1p

1p anglo bubbly that lasted all day, maybe with the odd bit of fluff stuck to it

bazooka joe bubble gum with a comic in every one

I remember when petrol was 80 pence a litre- AND WE BARRICADED THE FUEL DEPOTS!!

Took our eye off the ball there, didn't we???

Seriously though, I remember my mate have a Rover SDi, and he used to put £2.00 worth of petrol in it, pay by cheque, and it would run all week.

I can remember bread going up to 15p a loaf some time in the early/mid 70s. There was outcry (in the tabloids, anyway) over a loaf costing the equivalent of 3 shillings.

a bag of chips for a tanner/6p/2.5 "new pence" (with scraps)

now most places it's a £1 or over

Fish and chips used to be a cheap meal - yet the last time I bought two portions it cost me over ten pounds !