Here's one for the old guard, to show the youngsters what it was like in the "good old days". I was only a tiny tot when we went decimal, but I expect to see some prices in £-s-d from some of you!. To start, I remember when it cost 4p for a tube of Polo mints.
I remember when you could get more than 1 sweet for 1p Saturday morning cinema for 6d, a bus ride for 1d and 2p of this new money for a phone call.
My first ever pint of beer in a pub cost 33p....Whitbread Best Bitter as I recall....anybody remember this classic ad starring a young Stephen Fry? [video=youtube;BCvckXYMBEc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCvckXYMBEc[/video]
Indeed, we all used to smoke No6 behind the pavilion at school. I think they were about 12p for 10 when I started. No10 were even cheaper but they were revolting.
Also, when bags of Haribo (e.g Tangfastics, Happy Cola, etc) were literally £1 a bag! Now they're like £1.50 at least!
I remember a pint of Whitbread Tankard in the Avenue near stag Gates going up from 20p to 22p a pint. It meant you could no longer get 5 pints for £1. Not long after, inflation being fast in those days, a pint of Watneys Starlight, arguably the worst keg beer in the world ever, was 33p in the Bellmoor pub in Hill Lane which meant you could get 3 pints for a quid.
Jesus, I'm in my early 20's and even I've noticed it. When I was a kid Freddo bars, Chomps and Fudges were 10p. In a decade they've increased by between 100%-150% in price. I also remember when I got my first issue of The Beano in about 1998. It cost 32p and was printed on that really thin crap that comics had been made from for decades. I noticed the other day (I swear I don't still buy it!) that it's now about £1.50 and printed on that horrible laminated stuff. What fun is reading a comic if you don't get shouted at by your mum and dad for getting print all over the settee? Tins of Coke were about 30p too back in the late-90's, and you struggle to find one for less than twice that these days
When I was 10, my big sister bought a packet of 5 Woodbines - she smoked three of them, and I smoked two. I coughed my guts up, and have never smoked since !!
God they were rough, Woodbines. I remember holidays in France in the seventies and every Frenchman smoked Gauloises or Gitanes, they really used to stink.
Not a price thing, but I remember when computer games came in those big bulky boxes, about A5 side in dimensions and quite thick too, complete contrast to the DVD style cases of today. Was funny at MCM Comic Con seeing all these old computer games in old boxes and thinking that people actually bought them once upon a time! I think the first game I got in a DVD style case was Warcraft 3.
You are not allowed to mention Warcraft without giving server & toon name. It's an unwritten intraweb law
I've got a vague memory of going round collecting up lemonade and beer bottles for recycling, as in being used again - we used to get 3d for each bottle - in today's money that's............... 2.5p? or was it 1.25p? Remind me someone............ was 5p a tanner or a bob?
Bob. A tanner was 2 and a half. 5p was one old shilling. Do you remember, the old money was still in use long after decimalisation.
