Nostalgia or was things actually better then.

Thankyou @Fat Controller .

 

@pete, like others I wondered what could have been misunderstood in your posts. Seems like your innocent - for once

 

Harry, I'm always innocent, it's all the others, they pick on me.

That should read "you're innocent, " btw.

 

@pete you and I must be twins, I'm always innocent as well! Or should that be "I is always innocent as well, I is"

Getting back on subject, once a year we went to the seaside on what were known as "Club Trips." @HarryS I would think that you would remember these, and the way the coach breaking down outside a pub on the way there!

 

My mum and dad wouldn't let me go on a club trip. You got a 10 shilling note and a day out in Blackpool or Southport, sounded fantastic to me.

 

Christ a ten bob note, you were rich I only got half a crown a week until I went to work.

 

You forgot the packed lunch and dinner...I even remember going to Rhyl with one once! That was exotic, as its in another country!

 

Whats all this talk of bobs and crowns

 

Yes a 10 shilling note , real folding money !

 

Well a bob was two tanners, four tanners or two bob made a florin, one florin and a tanner made 2/6, which if it was one coin was a half crown, two half crowns obviously made a crown, but they weren't in general circulation, but equalled 5 bob.
10 bob was half a pound which was 20 bob or 240 pennies.
A guinea was one pound one shilling, and a shilling was a bob.

I'm not going to go into the copper stuff as that was a bit confusing.

 

@pete remember that half a crown was also known as half a dollar and two half dollars made a dollar...that was back in the good old days when I was a youngster.

 

When a US dollar was worth 25p I believe, and didn't vary.

 

Oh how I love Euro.

 

Narrr, boring.