Anyone Remember The 1971 Decimalisation Ad....

[ToraToraTora]

"spend your old coppers in sixpenny lots"? Err indoors doesn't. Can anyone track down the actual ad, can't find it on You tube etc, cheers.

[Gromit]

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[Gromit]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXRxBztI6vY

[Old_Geezer]

I recall the tune. Can't recall the visuals.

[tonyav]

Yeah I remember the decimalisation, the day before 5 Park Drive was one and a penny. On decimalisation day they were 6p ( it was a scam I tell ya ).

[Calibax]

I remember "Granny gets the point"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rOzF3QpJcw

[ToraToraTora]

seen that one gromit, it was the one that made a point of grouping coppers into 6d ie 2.5p. Yes paddy that was the principle cause of the huge inflation that Labour had to contend with followed by TGL herself, probably took 15years to get that under control.

[Jackdaw33]

Can anyone remember florins (2/-) ? They were an early attempt to introduce decimalisation (c. 1840s). Took them 130 years to catch up.

[Bathsheba]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/february/15/newsid_2732000/2732345.stm

I remember being told to pay with a note and get change

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[shaneystar2]

My Mum used to call it dismal money .She died in 1995 aged 91 and was still adding her bills up in Lsd.I remember buying her a cream cake once and she asked me how much it was.When I said it was 35p she said...
7 shillings for a cake....Bldy robbers ..lol

[Jackdaw33]

Sheer nostalgia, but what I missed was the sense of holding history in your pocket. The kings and queens of the UK since Victoria onwards. Even as late as 1970 it was not unusual to come across a bun penny of Queen Victoria dated 1860 in your pocket.

[DaisyNonna]

Was living and working abroad at the time
Came back the following year and was clueless
Nothing has changed!

[Togo]

Face electrician paddwak. The elite down there. Where were you? I was down Holditch S.O.T. from 16 to 18+. Half a crown was worth 10p within 3 months. Deliberate inflation. The rest of the world were flummoxed with the old £SD.

[Jackdaw33]

The half crown was withdrawn six months before decimalisation. Probably the government feared a fiddle on a grand scale.

[jourdain2]

I do have vague memories of that ad.. I remember 'a litre of water is a pint and 3/4s'. I still work in pounds and pints (although when in Europe I work in litres and grams - with the aid of a conversion table).

What I do, vividly, remember is finding an old receipt which jogged my memory. I bought a punnet of cress for 2 1/2d (tuppence ha'penny) one week and the same purchase the next week was 2 and a half pence i.e. an old sixpence - massive inflation!

[Jackdaw33]

What all these adverts have in common is that they are so bloody patronising.

[Old_Geezer]

OF course. We are all so much more sophiestickeded now.

[Togo]

Geezer your keyboard is playing up again.(^_*)

[paddywak]

Bevercotes Togo,started in June '66 working in the PHB's till September when the apprenticeship started on the princely wage of £5/5s a week with nothing extra for going underground. Did nearly 30 years there and worked everywhere from the faces and headings to the winders and coal prep lot's of good times and some really bad times,but I've never met people like the lads at the pit I still see quite a few of them roundand about and they all say the same they don't miss the job but they do miss the "lads"

[THECORBYLOON]

JORDAN I mind on the rhyme but was it not, "A litre of water's a pint and three quarters" to make it more of a rhyme?

[THECORBYLOON]

I typed JOURDAIN!