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[Nickbat]

This thread's as silly as a nine-bob note. 

Typical cockney spiv coment..........

Oi, fancy a knuckle sandwich in the boat-race?

Listen, I've got Lady Godiva in my sky rocket says England'll win on Sunday. Take the bet or you'll be floatin' down the canal wearin' a concrete overcoat.

'An no more of that spiv malarky, neither. I'm just a business man. Gettit?

 

Accepted, canny lad.......

 

[Dishevelled Den]

This thread's as silly as a nine-bob note. 

Typical cockney spiv coment..........

Oi, fancy a knuckle sandwich in the boat-race?

Listen, I've got Lady Godiva in my sky rocket says England'll win on Sunday. Take the bet or you'll be floatin' down the canal wearin' a concrete overcoat.

'An no more of that spiv malarky, neither. I'm just a business man. Gettit?

 

  Sweet - go on then my son. 'ave 'im.



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[Nickbat]

Oi, Zulu!

Nice post, my son! Haven't had a laugh like that since me grannie caught her ti.....

Jellied eels, anyone? 

[jereboam]

I don't think decimalisation was the principal reason for the hyper-inflation of the 1970s, although it certainly contributed to the problem.  There were other reasons why a 6d choccy bar ended up costing 6p (or 14.4d in old money - one and tuppence ha'penny, near enough). 

And not all Cockneys talk like that, and certainly not all Londoners.  My late father was born within the sound of Bow Bells, and he spoke like a BBC announcer.  But that might have been because he went to a public school.

[HolyCount]

I was a pre-decimal baby, brought up on old pennies and florins and the like --- to this day I still convert back to "visualise" the value of something 

My brother is 10 years the younger and was educated post-decimalisation. When he was little he would squander his pock on, say, a lolly that cost 5 pence (an expensive brand cost that in those days). When I told him it was a waste of his money to buy the expensive lolly he'd say " but .. it's only 5 p", I'd reply, "5p ? Do you realise thats a whole shilling for a lolly " ...... His response .... "What's a shilling ??"

I felt old at a very early age  :-/ :-/

[Richie London]

1961 king george shilling is worth a bit, very rare apparently. i remember my dad used to collect them but never found one.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Does anyone remember the old "Ten shilling note"?......if memory serves they were  pinky/salmon in colour.....

[Dishevelled Den]

Does anyone remember the old "Ten shilling note"?......if memory serves they were  pinky/salmon in colour.....

Trawling the depths of my atrophied mind Opti, I certainly do - and they were.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Does anyone remember the old "Ten shilling note"?......if memory serves they were  pinky/salmon in colour.....

Yes, and only ever seen for birthdays, and then when I started doing a paper round.  Usually though we felt very lucky indeed to get a half crown!!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Ah yes..... farthing...........halfpenny....big old penny...........threepenny bit...........tanner ..... bob ......two bob......half crown........ crown.......and for Lizzie and Zulu....The Groat.

Must not forget the third of a farthing either Optimist! 8-) 8-)

Ah, the days when you could buy 16 fruit salads or black jacks for 1d  8-) 8-) 8-)

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I was a pre-decimal baby, brought up on old pennies and florins and the like --- to this day I still convert back to "visualise" the value of something 

My brother is 10 years the younger and was educated post-decimalisation. When he was little he would squander his pock on, say, a lolly that cost 5 pence (an expensive brand cost that in those days). When I told him it was a waste of his money to buy the expensive lolly he'd say " but .. it's only 5 p", I'd reply, "5p ? Do you realise thats a whole shilling for a lolly " ...... His response .... "What's a shilling ??"

I felt old at a very early age  :-/ :-/

Doesn't that scare you silly though?   I know it does for me when I think that a Mars Bar now costs 7s!!

[Nickbat]

Fascinating list of slang monetary terms

http://www.aldertons.com/money.htm

 

[HolyCount]

Does anyone remember the old "Ten shilling note"?......if memory serves they were  pinky/salmon in colour.....

I still have a few -- couldn't bring myself to "break" them !!!

[HolyCount]

I was a pre-decimal baby, brought up on old pennies and florins and the like --- to this day I still convert back to "visualise" the value of something 

My brother is 10 years the younger and was educated post-decimalisation. When he was little he would squander his pock on, say, a lolly that cost 5 pence (an expensive brand cost that in those days). When I told him it was a waste of his money to buy the expensive lolly he'd say " but .. it's only 5 p", I'd reply, "5p ? Do you realise thats a whole shilling for a lolly " ...... His response .... "What's a shilling ??"

I felt old at a very early age  :-/ :-/

Doesn't that scare you silly though?   I know it does for me when I think that a Mars Bar now costs 7s!!

Yes, it does, Lizzie.  I usually do it when I am trying to talk myself out of buying something I might want but don't need