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Has Anybody Got A Spare Shilling?
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Graham | Report | 15 Feb 2014 09:20 |
It was on this day in 1971 that we went decimal. Shillings went the way of the dinosaur. People moaned about the pound being devalued (from 240 pence to 100 pence). But the new system is much easier to use, isn't it? |
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Linda | Report | 15 Feb 2014 09:50 |
I remember it well I was 20 and remember going to the shops for the first time has a new mum very strange but would not go back to LSD |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 Feb 2014 13:16 |
It wasn't easy to use it was a right bag of nails. For men the huge heavy coins were a sure fire way to ruin clothes. OTOH very good for people who looked down the back of sofas ... Also good for robbing foreign tourists. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 15 Feb 2014 16:36 |
I have a bag of 5 p's for parking meters |
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Bobtanian | Report | 15 Feb 2014 16:40 |
It was a way of ripping off the motoring public.......... |
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Amanda2003 | Report | 15 Feb 2014 17:42 |
I miss the days of pounds , shillings and pence , not so much because of the currency but just because those days where my happy carefree childhood :-) |
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JustJanet | Report | 15 Feb 2014 19:27 |
I worked in a Bank then and for weeks before we had to do practice tests using the new coins so we would be familiar with them. The 15th was a Monday and on the Friday before all banks were closed so they could update the accounts. It seems unbelievable now but this was pre- computers and the accounts were still added up in ledgers and we had to go through every one of the accounts by hand converting the balances to decimal. |
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Dermot | Report | 15 Feb 2014 19:37 |
There is another thread on this subject - entitled 'D Day'. |
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JustJohn | Report | 15 Feb 2014 20:03 |
The other thread is about the conversion day to the decimalisation of our currency, Dermot :-D . From the simplicity of 4 farthings to a 3d bit, 6 ha'pennies to a shilling and 4 groats to a guinea (pig?). |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 16 Feb 2014 05:31 |
I remember the day well, it was the opening of a new hotel and restaurant in my home city, where I had returned from a relationship break up in Cambridge. I needed a job and was relieved to be chosen as one of ten staff from a total of 45 applicants. Those were the days, there would probably have been 450 applicants these days lol What with learning the menus and the layout of the restaurant and getting to grips with decimals it was a steep learning curve. I had always done waitressing etc as well as a day job of office work but this was full time work, split shifts for several days then two or three days off - took some getting used to but I enjoyed it and made new friends. Sadly the Quarterdeck bar/restaurant part that I worked in was closed down after about 18 months to add more bedrooms to the hotel and move the restaurant into the bigger posh restaurant 'below decks' |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 16 Feb 2014 07:35 |
Like Janet I worked in a bank and remember it well. I think we were closed Thursday 11th too - something to do with getting all the cheques paid in up to Wednesday processed through the clearing system and on to the customers ledgers. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 17 Feb 2014 08:59 |
Oh, Kalamazoo binders, that rings a bell with me from way back........ |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 17 Feb 2014 09:51 |
I was teaching Maths at the time and we had been practising for some time with plastic coins. Once they got used to the change, it certainly made the sums easier for them |