Inflation.....!

There we were enjoying a couple of Chelsea buns from our local bakery that cos £1.30 for the two.
"Do you know" she said "When I was lass, mum would send me down chippy for supper and for what it cost us for these buns I could get 26 portions of fish n chips.!! Thats twenty six"

Now thats inflation...


Morning all

 

I can rember draught bitter at two bob a pint, so for 26/- I could be legless....!

 

Our chippy used to charge 6p for a bag of chips when I was little. Then one day I remember being gutted because I only had 6p and the chips had gone up to a whopping 8p. Luckily the nice lady in the chippy said I could owe the 2p and gave me my chips anyway.

 

I was gutted when my daily mars bar went from 4d to 6d

 

First pint of beer was 1/10d , Youngers IPA No3 . I thought it was horrible then ! Double Diamond and Watneys Red Barrel were big money at 2/6d i.e a gallon for a pound ! Several thousand pints later I am beginning to like it :D

 

Dont you think it strange that we can remember the price of a pint so easy after all those years.
What does that say about us?

 

All this nostalgic talk about the prices of old made me think you would like a look at some real money






a-a

 

Happy days ... i could travel all the way from Essex to the centre of London where i worked for 2/6 return .. on the over head and tube trains .. :thumb:

 

Probably because 'a pint' was the first really grown-up thing we bought with our own money

a-a

 

Ramsgate to York via London...£3.......beat that. thats about 300 miles.

 

Ah yes best bitter 1/3d a pint, only trouble was my weekly wage was £3


Jack McH

 

Inspired by this thread, I just grabbed and scanned a few memories,



20 Players No 6, 49p

IPA, 20p a pint.

4 Star petrol 50p a Gallon

Parrafin 17p a gallon.

Loaf of Mothers Pride 9p.

20p of chips.

Off peak child day return from Guildford to London on the train..........................................................................................................................................75p