The abbreviation originates from the Latin currency denominations librae, solidi, and denarii.[1] In the United Kingdom, which was one of the last to abandon the system, these were referred to as pounds, shillings, and pence (pence being the plural of penny).
When I was a kid I sometimes got the train to Boothferry Park even though I lived in west Hull and it would have been much more sensible to get the special matchday buses that came from the direction of Orchard Park. First I'd get the bus into town and then the train out to Boothferry Park. Daft lad.
We would get the bus into town Saturday morning, go a listen to records on the top floor of Hammonds in the listening booths, then get the train from Paragon to Fer Park for the match.
I used to walk to City from Kirk Ella as a kid, collecting mates along the way from Willerby, Anlaby and Anlaby Common, it was a very cheap day out.
4d in 1966 is equivalent (adjusting for inflation) to a mere 28p today. Funny - I was expecting it to come out a little higher than that.
I lived on Anlaby common, but got the bus to town, as kids we nearly always went to town Saturday morning, unless we had a game for the school Saturday morning. Then straight from town to football on the train.
2 and 6 to get from Withernsea to Paragon and then another tanner to get from there to City by train. I make that 3 shillings. And how much was it to get in the ground when that poster was printed I wonder?
Citys match with Blackburn on the 23RD Feb 1971 It cost 15p or 3 bob/shilling to get in. You could pay with any coins. Very weird at the time. If memory serves me right the match was abandoned at halftime because of fog but that could have been another match with Blackburn
Kin hell those WHERE the days .. remember running the gauntlet of walking along boothferry road from hessle wondering where the next ambush was coming from .. gotta love the boothferry estate .. lol ahhh the mid seventies what a breeze !
That was just when shillings were being replaced by decimal coinage 1971. If the train lines went with Doctor Beeching then those trains from Withernsea and Hornsea must have been gone five or six years by then.
Not the Edward V111 pennies (1937/38) issued before he abdicated. They're worth a lot, as are pre 1947 Two shilling pieces.
I lived in Marfleet Lane about 50 metres from the station on the Withernsea line and it closed in Oct. 1964. Many happy memories as a kid in the 1940's playing on and near the line. Also remember walking down the line during the war years picking up pieces of coal dropped from engines with an elder kid from next door and being caught by the railway police. He subsequently went to court and I was cautioned.
My great grandparents lived on Marfleet Lane in the 20's-30s BMB. His name was Thomas Topham Cass...he owned TT Cass and Sons, Cabinet Makers, on Dansom Lane which he founded in 1877. It was sold to Dutton Moore in 1962 when my grandad died, his two sons having been killed in the war. We moved out to Beverley in 1941 in the blitz after some near misses on Fairfax Ave. In the early 50's I started taking the bus into Paragon from Saturday Market....then the train out to BP. Kids could get into the ground for 10p...programs 2p I think.
