The £1 Coin Is 30 Years Old.

[walshie 2,804]

While we're talking about the pound sterling, The pound coin was introduced on April 21st 1983.

 

Back then, one of those coins would have bought you::

20 cigarettes






6lbs of frozen chicken






Three loaves of sliced white bread

 

 

2.77 litres of petrol






Two pints of London Pride beer




Makes you feel old, doesn't it?

[paulus 26]

While we're talking about the pound sterling, The pound coin was introduced on April 21st 1983.

 

Back then, one of those coins would have bought you::

 

20 cigarettes

 

 

 

 

 

6lbs of frozen chicken

 

 

 

 

 

Three loaves of sliced white bread

 

 

 

2.77 litres of petrol

 

 

 

 

 

Two pints of London Pride beer

 

 

 

Makes you feel old, doesn't it?

 

 

when i was at school 10 No.6 was 34p and a bag of chips was 16p, even further back i use to get sent to the co op by my mam to fetch 60 No,10 and i came back with change out of a £1 note i can remember my old man saying "soon be £1 a gallon" :laugh:

[walshie 2,804]

My mum used to smoke cadets. I can remember them being 58p a pack and a can of drink 7 1/2p.

[Malt 379]

 

While we're talking about the pound sterling, The pound coin was introduced on April 21st 1983.

 

Back then, one of those coins would have bought you::20 cigarettes6lbs of frozen chickenThree loaves of sliced white bread

 

 

 

2.77 litres of petrolTwo pints of London Pride beer

Makes you feel old, doesn't it?

 

when i was at school 10 No.6 was 34p and a bag of chips was 16p, even further back i use to get sent to the co op by my mam to fetch 60 No,10 and i came back with change out of a £1 note i can remember my old man saying "soon be £1 a gallon" :laugh:

I can remember my nan and grandad putting £5 in the car and it lasting all week, and that included a few 20 mile round trips up to my mums house!

[Guest mrpit]

i can remember when i had my first pint it was 44 p

[Tiercel 6,986]

I used to get a packet of Embassy red for my mother in the coop they were 4+7p that would have been around 1963 packet of chips was thupence or 4pence with scrumps. The going rate for Going to the shop for a neigbour was a penny for the coop and thrupence for Davy DP's as it was further. But you never got paid of your mother.

 

TC

Edited April 25, 2013 by tiercel

[roe-buck 63]

Well I can remember it being 20 pence a pint.Allbright the ale of the Valleys Mun!I used to get plastered and have chips on a tenner,no not ten quid ,a ten bob note!

[scroat 62]

there was a couple of scallys making their own round here.had their own wee mint going lol tin of gold paint spray for finishing off lol.

[pritch 335]

i remember when the £ coins 1st come out half pissed orders a pint

hands over a tenner barman comes back throws a load o slummy in

me hand & is walkin off & i'm after draggin the c**t over the bar thinkin

he's gi me the change for a quid,when he points out that they had no

fivers & he's give 1£ coins in the crappy light & half cut i'd thowt they

where the owd 5p coins

[the_stig 6,614]

used to be 16p return on the bus --- nightmare parking my van in town so a few week back we went in on the bus 9 quid return for the 2 of us -- i told the driver i wher`nt after shares just a short trip into town mind it was the first time i`d been on a bus since 1976

Edited April 25, 2013 by the_stig

[Nik_B 3,790]

Thanks for making me feel old

 

I remember the space shuttles first flight too

[j j m 6,540]

yep we are shoeing out age when the pound coin first hit the streets,sorry should of read showing our age

Edited April 25, 2013 by j j m

[paulus 26]

yep we are shoeing out age when the pound coin first hit the streets,sorry should of read showing our age

i can remember the old pound note, before the new pound note, before the £1 coin

[byron 1,179]

My mum used to smoke cadets. I can remember them being 58p a pack and a can of drink 7 1/2p.

well walshie..

the advert went..

cadets bring quality to smaller cigarettes..

go on ,,ask ya mam.....

[Banter 1,751]

there was a couple of scallys making their own round here.had their own wee mint going lol tin of gold paint spray for finishing off lol.

em i wonder who showed them that trick