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I'm old as well, three 6d's used to buy a Matchbox toy!
So it would have taken six 3d to achieve the same purchase.
Dinky Toy cars were a whole different ball game and needed birthday/Christmas presents to buy.
We were poor, and lived in a cardboard box in the gutter, but we were happy....
So it would have taken six 3d to achieve the same purchase.
Dinky Toy cars were a whole different ball game and needed birthday/Christmas presents to buy.
We were poor, and lived in a cardboard box in the gutter, but we were happy....
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ferret50 said:
We were poor, and lived in a cardboard box in the gutter, but we were happy....
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.When the decimal money came in, old people used to drop the half pennies all the time as they were tiny.
As a lad I'd spend the day at Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre as Allders had a lift and it was amazing to us youngsters
Time to go home and I'd search the pavement and gutter and always find the 4 half pennies that I needed for the bus home. Yep! 2p for the bus.
Aye, those where the days.
As a lad I'd spend the day at Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre as Allders had a lift and it was amazing to us youngsters
Time to go home and I'd search the pavement and gutter and always find the 4 half pennies that I needed for the bus home. Yep! 2p for the bus.
Aye, those where the days.
croyde said:
When the decimal money came in, old people used to drop the half pennies all the time as they were tiny.
As a lad I'd spend the day at Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre as Allders had a lift and it was amazing to us youngsters
Time to go home and I'd search the pavement and gutter and always find the 4 half pennies that I needed for the bus home. Yep! 2p for the bus.
Aye, those where the days.
My neck of the woods back in the day .... used to walk through there and try the aftershaves... Kouros, Jazz, Obsession ....As a lad I'd spend the day at Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre as Allders had a lift and it was amazing to us youngsters
Time to go home and I'd search the pavement and gutter and always find the 4 half pennies that I needed for the bus home. Yep! 2p for the bus.
Aye, those where the days.
Had to help my ma on Sat monrings in the market, get the veg and then Beejam at the end of Surrey St Market before getting the 109 back home.
croyde said:
When the decimal money came in, old people used to drop the half pennies all the time as they were tiny.
As a lad I'd spend the day at Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre as Allders had a lift and it was amazing to us youngsters
Time to go home and I'd search the pavement and gutter and always find the 4 half pennies that I needed for the bus home. Yep! 2p for the bus.
Aye, those where the days.
Aah whitgift centre… when I was a boy.. Fairfield Halls. Went there with parents often to “Friday night is music night” live on BBC radio. Gave me an ear for orchestral music. Also saw The Shadows there in the 70s and many other musical evenings..As a lad I'd spend the day at Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre as Allders had a lift and it was amazing to us youngsters
Time to go home and I'd search the pavement and gutter and always find the 4 half pennies that I needed for the bus home. Yep! 2p for the bus.
Aye, those where the days.
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