£1 coins

[grumpy52]

Just realised that the modern £1 coin is much like the old thrupenny bit .
Probably buys as much as the old thrupenny bit did back then .

[sherman]

Tell me your old without telling me your old

[ferret50]

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....

[gotoPzero]

grumpy52 said:

old thrupenny bit.

Is that like a bit coin?

[gt40steve]

[boxy but good]

ferret50 said:

We were poor, and lived in a cardboard box in the gutter, but we were happy....

You lucky bd !!

[grumpy52]

gt40steve said:

Brings back memories of tins of easy start in the loading sheds of the Sunblest bakery on icy winter mornings.

[anonymous-user]

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.

[croyde]

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.

[Mr Pointy]

grumpy52 said:

Just realised that the modern £1 coin is much like the old thrupenny bit .
Probably buys as much as the old thrupenny bit did back then .

It's not the same when a lass gets her pound coins out.

[dudleybloke]

Luxury...............

[Cupid-stunt]

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 ....

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.

[languagetimothy]

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..

[Nigel_O]

Mr Pointy said:

grumpy52 said:

Just realised that the modern £1 coin is much like the old thrupenny bit .
Probably buys as much as the old thrupenny bit did back then .

It's not the same when a lass gets her pound coins out.

[croyde]

Nice to find some Old Croydonians on this thread

[soad]

I’m glad they were upgraded as the amount of fakes within the last few years (in circulation) was shocking!

Same goes for the paper bank notes.

[Merc 450]

The five pence piece became smaller mainly because us squaddies in Germany realised anything that took a 1 deutschmark coin (25p) would take an English 5p coin instead (pool tables fag machines etc)

[languagetimothy]

croyde said:

Nice to find some Old Croydonians on this thread

Re my earlier post…steady on.. I was Beckenham dont you know,,,,

[CanAm]

Mr Pointy said:

grumpy52 said:

Just realised that the modern £1 coin is much like the old thrupenny bit .
Probably buys as much as the old thrupenny bit did back then .

It's not the same when a lass gets her pound coins out.

[bobtail4x4]

do you know why the pound coin has the flats on it?
so you can use a spanner to get it out of a Yorkshiremans hand,