Half a pound of twopenny rice.....

[Ice.Maiden]

Long before decimalisation, can anyone remember what twopence WOULD buy?

[pastafreak]

I am the last person you should ask! lol

[Ice.Maiden]

Awww bless!!! My mum sometimes talks of certain sweets she could get for that amount, but I meant before that - like could it've bought anything else? I don't know how far people can go back, but one of my grandma's re,members buying a load of hair ribbons for threepence!

[bigmamma]

Half a pound of treacle , that's the way the money goes ...pop goes the wheezle
sorry ...lol

[pastafreak]

And to us now it sounds like people really got their money's worth.

[bigmamma]

Gosh though twopence would buy alot of halfpenny sweeties , or a whole jubbly .

[Ice.Maiden]

LOL!!! An old lady in the village says that she can remember buying a week's groceries for �5 or �6!

[joggerjayne]

What exactly is twopenny rice ??

[pastafreak]

Where is that thread you mentioned to me about people's weekly shop expenses???

[joggerjayne]

That would have been weekly shop expenses not counting wine, obviously.

[terambulan]

1938 Accounts of earlier owner of this house:

face cream 1.6 / chocs 3.0 / 3 galls Shell 4.9 / hair set 3.0 / comb 0.3 / tea 2.5 / Calamine lotion 1.0 / t.paste & brush 1.0 / cigs 2.6 / tobacco 1.6 / 2 mens vests 9.10 / cardigan 12.11 / baby shoes 2.0 / hair wave 5.0 / calendar 0.3 / wireless licence 10.0 / car licence 5.0 / birthday card 0.6 / 4 apples 0.6 / Andrews liver salts 0.9 / Cutex 0.9 / Bisto 0.7 / anniseed balls 0.3 / curlers 0.6 / Kraft cheese 0.8

Annual Expenditure �151

[terambulan]

4 farthings = 1 pence
2 Halfpennies = 1pence
12 pence = 1 shilling
20 shillings = �1

Wats the current value of a sixpenny piece.....I think they were the last silver coin?

[fenultimate]

Tuppeny rice??

Tuppence a pound, or to put it another way .833333 p for 464 grams.

[taichiperson]

5 new pence = a shilling
2.5 new pence = sixpence (Old pennies)