i was watching the liver birds last night episode in 1970
when they were checking there house keeping
fish and chips for 4 with pickle onions 18/- which for any one pre decimal
was less than a £1 a pound being 20/- and containg 12pennies to a shilling and 240 to a £1-00 then.
.an average fish and chips for 4 now would be about £20 thats a 2000% increase .
of course the pound in your pocket hasnt become worth less since decimalization has it .?100pennies to the pound
It is when I watch The Professionals and the Bank robbers steal £100k!! They wouldn't get out of bed for that these days!!
And I love looking at the empty streets of London!
i think i meant post decimal anyone who dosent remember pounds shillings and pence .sorry old brain fog still hanging in .
I understood what you meant and I went off at a slight tangent as a result!!
Do you remember when they chnged frfom Imperial to Decimal? An excuse to double all the prices!
And when A GALLON of petrol was 7/6p, and not as it is today circa £1.11p a litre.
I recollect it well when in 1971 were all told that decimalisation would not result in an increase in prices, and under Edward Heath we would be better-off in the EU.
Absolute CLAPTRAP.
The Wilson government was a disaster.
Decimalisation was a disaster
the Coalition was a . . . Just under a hundred days to run. Of course they could pull a rabbit out of the hat and make it the greatest success of all time. But then we were all born yesterday . . . Well perhaps not.
Yes, gone are the days when 'cheap as chips' really meant something, unlike today!
yes iv just finished watching randel and hopkirk deceased and its so strange to see such empty streets in london and of course of parking was a issue .like it is today .
meant wasn't an issue
yes and now its done in litres so we dont question the price like we should ..i remember someone saying i was only 11 at the time but it stuck in my mind , that decimalsation wouldnt make a difference to the value of the pound in your pocket
i must have been a wise child because i thought then how that wasnt right , how can you go from 240 pence to 100 pence to a pound with out it being devalued .
biggest conn ever ! thank god we didnt go to the euro
But we had endless assurances from the politicians that it would make no difference, didn't we? It was just going to be more convenient.
decimalistaion was the biggest conn ever .the euro cost us all dearly with having to bail out other countries . thank god we didnt go into having the euro .what a bloody state we would be in now if we had
I doubt if even wood chips are cheep.
to right cheap as chips ,cant really be applied now. you need a mortage
these days to take an average family out to eat ..
Do you remember the years, yes years, when petrol was four gallons for a pound?
yes i can remember the signs at the garage
And that just covers the petrol.
Mmm How do you get a mortgage anyway? The banks are skint except when executive salaries and bonuses come to be paid. That includes banks bought by the taxpayers, you and me.
we should do like what they do in germany have good quality large family apartments to rent instaed of buying .
plus they dont included money from house sales in there econemey .like we do . funny how Germany road out the 80s depression and now are riding out this depression as well why dont we follow the way Germany run there economy instead of following the USA .
Ah! We have that special relationship. Happy us.
We do what we are told, are not allowed to answer back. 
When things go wrong we get a kicking. 
All worth while when our PM gets to have his photo with their President. 
. Funny , other countries PMs get their photos with the President without any Special Relationship. . Am I missing something ? 
f
like terry wogan say's is it me !