The Good Old Days

[NoMercy]

When 20 Ransom were £1.36, Liebfraumilch was around £2, meaning I'd still have change from my £5 pocket money.

What do you miss from the good old days...?

[NoMercy]

That's Ronson not ransom...

[Zacs-Master]

That man with the Gavel who used long words

[stewey]

You got five pound pocket money??

[ummmm]

Bag of chips costing 10p. Bags of crisps actually being full. My BMX and speed skates :-)

[dannyk13]

Respect for elders and authority and a more placid way of life. (40s/50s)

[boxtops]

I never bought those things with my pocket money, NoM!

I remember buying a pair of boots in about 1975, and my father asking how much I'd paid for them -on hearing I'd paid £20, he commented "money no object, then!"

I still have a pair of shoes I bought in 1971, they cost me 29 shillings and 11 pence, I have kept them for posterity :-)

[jeffa]

I honestly can't think of anything that's not better now than it was in the past. Of course things are more expensive, but that's just the way of it.

[NoMercy]

Only if I did all the housework, Stewey...

Do you remember when a Mars Bar was 9p, Ummmm?

[Zacs-Master]

Joking aside, I used to go out on a Friday night with a couple of mates with only a pound because a pint was £33p and we could buy a round each. That was about 1979, so not that long ago.

[DrFilth]

bus into town paid a high price for my beer in the disco on deansgate then kfc and chips shared a cab home and would still have a few bob left out of a fiver

[ummmm]

No...because we had a sweet cabinet and I got them free :-) I remember when a pint of Guinness was 60 odd pence...

[stewey]

If the present is the sum total of the past, and things are better now, then it follows that things in the past were very good.

[society]

...being able to walk freely in the street at any hour without fear of being kidnapped or attacked or robbed.

[NoMercy]

Jeez, a fiver won't even get you a glass of wines these days...

[murraymints]

For zac

[ummmm]

Society - it still happened though it's just that we didn't hear about it.

[SlackAlice]

When petrol was 3s6d a gallon.

[Zacs-Master]

ha ha, Cheers Murray. Filmed in Leeds u know!

[anotheoldgit]

Being able to travel by train without any thought of the cost.

Being able to find a vacant carriage, putting one's case on the luggage rack, sliding the corridor door shut and pulling down the blind, ah the sheer luxury.

[murraymints]

When I was wee I always wanted a hat and all the gear to go zac !