Decimalisation - 35 Years Ago Today

[Eric Mc]

For those of us who are old enough to remember, it was 35 years ago today that we gave up our Pounds, Shillings and Pence for Pounds and Pence.

I remember it well.



>> Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 15th February 21:08

[UncleDave]

I'm still waiting for metric time to come into play

[Nick P]

i remember it happening...i was 3 weeks old

[gtr-gaz]

Eric Mc said:

I remember it well.

So do I I was 16 at the time!

[simpo two]

I was just getting to grips with adding up in 12s when they changed it.

Let's enjoy miles while we can...

[Eric Mc]

Anyone remember "Granny Gets the Point"?

[deevlash]

Im too young to remember before decimalisation, must have been terrible with miles per hour, galons, counting calories....oh wait

[victormeldrew]

I can remember how it was used as an excuse to ramp up prices for no good reason.

[matchless]

as will going over to the Euro!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

victormeldrew said:

I can remember how it was used as an excuse to ramp up prices for no good reason.

Rubbish!

The Beezer remained at 2.5p, equivalent to the 6d it was before.

[gopher]

I was six months and 30 days old

and as a yorkshireman I very well remember it, robbin' bastads!

[scared but happy]

matchless said:

as will going over to the Euro!

Euro? What ever happened to that then?

[nonegreen]

I was 9 and had a great time conning old people out of more money than was honestly decent. 15 pence love it should be 2 shilling really but they are on offer.

[srebbe64]

Eric Mc said:

For those of us who are old enough to remember, it was 35 years ago today that we gave up our Pounds, Shillings and Pence for Pounds and Pence. I remember it well. >> Edited by Eric Mc on Wednesday 15th February 21:08

Blimey, that'll be three dozen years next year. Doesn' timefly?

[HarryW]

Remember it well, I was so releived I could forget my 11 & 12 times tables from that point forward .
Seem to remember them phasing out the likes of the farthing and thrupenny bit first though .

[focusonme]

UncleDave said:

I'm still waiting for metric time to come into play

You laughed, they worked it out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_I

[focusonme]

HarryW said:

Remember it well, I was so releived I could forget my 11 & 12 times tables from that point forward . Seem to remember them phasing out the likes of the farthing and thrupenny bit first though .

Is that the real reason why it's traditional to teach up to the 12 times table?

[mybrainhurts]

scared but happy said:

matchless said: as will going over to the Euro! Euro? What ever happened to that then?

It's still buzzing around....expected to crash and burn.

[UncleDave]

focusonme said:

UncleDave said: I'm still waiting for metric time to come into play You laughed, they worked it out... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_I

I'll have a proper read of that tomorrow

[c c]

Yep I remember the plastic currency converters everyone had to work the prices out with..