What a find

[TOPGUN749]

8 hours ago, Manymissedpigeon said:

Tetleys mild was tenpence ( all one word, not ten pence) but only for weaklings, Tetleys bitter was elevenpence but supposedly sent you blind so we all drank ‘a pint ‘o mixed’ at tenpence haypnee.

Five star petrol ( for over ten to one compression engines) was two and tenpence but can’t remember the price of ‘regular’ fuel and only the trucks ( and the post office vans) used diesel

Sorry, that was in 1960 as we all drove and drank in pubs at fifteen those days

Petrol was 4s7d a gallon in 1960, perhaps you are remembering a half gallon!

[CaptC]

10 hours ago, TOPGUN749 said:

Last time petrol was 2s6d was in 1949,anyone driving then will be over 92 now!

I can remember buying petrol for my first car and it was 2/6. Maybe I’m wrong as I’m getting old!

[Nublue 22]

What you are all missing is ( when purchasing petrol back in the day ) your tank was filled up for you, no self service and you had a small but polite conversation, not any more you just here the cogs going around in the pump, then thinking £90 has gone. Oh the good old days? 

[TOPGUN749]

Just now, Nublue 22 said:

What you are all missing is ( when purchasing petrol back in the day ) your tank was filled up for you, no self service and you had a small but polite conversation, not any more you just here the cogs going around in the pump, then thinking £90 has gone. Oh the good old days? 

Yes but filling a tank of 10 gallons cost us £2 10s then which was more than a day’s wages.Today it’s only £60,and less than a day’s wages!

[snarepeg]

Petrol went up a bob in 56, the Suez crisis,from 3/6 to 4/6 , should have put my rabbit prices up😊🇬🇧👍

[Nublue 22]

2 minutes ago, TOPGUN749 said:

Yes but filling a tank of 10 gallons cost us £2 10s then which was more than a day’s wages.Today it’s only £60,and less than a day’s wages!

That would depend on job and your tank I gave a vw t4 it's around £90 bank in the day my motorcycle tank was very small

[TOPGUN749]

1 minute ago, Nublue 22 said:

That would depend on job and your tank I gave a vw t4 it's around £90 bank in the day my motorcycle tank was very small

A gallon hasn’t changed though 15 gallons is £90 now,£3 15s then. More affordable now for people of all means.

6 minutes ago, snarepeg said:

Petrol went up a bob in 56, the Suez crisis,from 3/6 to 4/6 , should have put my rabbit prices up😊🇬🇧👍

The biggest increase came between 1951-52 from 3s4d to 4s3d mainly due to the tax rising from 47.8% to 62.7%.

[amateur]

I remember, during the Suez crisis, when we lived in the Pennines, my Dad buying a Corgi motorcycle, based on the wartime paratroopers' Welbike, to get himself to work in place of our petrol guzzling Standard Vanguard.

He couldn't even get it up the hill. 🤣

[London Best]

During Suez my Dad had a pre war Rover 10. I think the compression was only about 5 1/2 to 1? He used to mix paraffin with his petrol and the car ran lovely.

[Bobba]

1 hour ago, amateur said:

 petrol guzzling Standard Vanguard.. 🤣

Gosh this developing into memory lane. I learnt to drive in a Standard Vanguard. Weighing in at a ton and a quarter, 3 gear column change. The good feature was the front bench seat with the girlfriend !!!

[amateur]

1 minute ago, Bobba said:

Gosh this developing into memory lane. I learnt to drive in a Standard Vanguard. Weighing in at a ton and a quarter, 3 gear column change. The good feature was the front bench seat with the girlfriend !!!

By the time that I had reached dating age, Dad had a Rover 90, which had the same feature.

[amateur]

On 02/12/2024 at 10:21, Dougy said:

Sorting out the cupboard under the stairs and came across my "Readers Digest Cookery Year" book. This was originally Dads book, one I'd looked after and treasured and used extensively pre Internet. I turned straight to the Christmas Cake recipe with my page maker still in place. 

I found another page maker that I didn't expect to find.  Awesome find and what a Christmas we're going to have. 

It has just occurred to me, Dougy, that you must have been well off to use a 10 bob note as a bookmark.

Did you light your ceegars with fivers? 🤣🤣

[TIGHTCHOKE]

1 minute ago, amateur said:

It has just occurred to me, Dougy, that you must have been well off to use a 10 bob note as a bookmark.

Did you light your ceegars with fivers? 🤣🤣

And that the recipe book is not used very much..........................

[samboy]

I have had this for a while. Don't know how old it is or if it's worth anything.

[amateur]

1 minute ago, samboy said:

I have had this for a while. Don't know how old it is or if it's worth anything.

Foreign, innit

[39TDS]

I remember picking strawberries all morning in order to earn my first ten bob note. I was as pleased as punch.

Even remember which field it was too.

[marsh man]

6 minutes ago, 39TDS said:

I remember picking strawberries all morning in order to earn my first ten bob note. I was as pleased as punch.

Even remember which field it was too.

We never picked Strawberries but we used to pick Blackcurrants , we got like a raffle ticket for each basket you picked then you could cash them in when you had finished , we would earn about a pound a day but we had to take our train fare out of that so we were not far short of ten bob a day , I tell yer what , even at that early age it made you look after your money after you had been ( working ) all day , MM

[TIGHTCHOKE]

10 minutes ago, marsh man said:

We never picked Strawberries but we used to pick Blackcurrants , we got like a raffle ticket for each basket you picked then you could cash them in when you had finished , we would earn about a pound a day but we had to take our train fare out of that so we were not far short of ten bob a day , I tell yer what , even at that early age it made you look after your money after you had been ( working ) all day , MM

How old were you then?

[marsh man]

1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

How old were you then?

We were still at school then so I would had been about 12 /13 , we had to go to Lingwood which was not far off from where Simon used to live at Cantley , like i said , you filled a basket up and they would give you a ticket that you could cash them in later on doing the day , no doubt some of the older men and women would keep them till the end of the week and cash them all in one go , now I don't think they no longer pick Blackcurrants by hand , one place where I go grow B / Cs for Ribena , a machine drive over the top of the bushes and shake the bush until the berries fall off and end up in the container . by the way T C , the Ribena berries are virtually inedible with them being so sour , it is the juice from the berry they want rather than the berry itself.   MM

[Dougy]

6 hours ago, amateur said:

It has just occurred to me, Dougy, that you must have been well off to use a 10 bob note as a bookmark.

Did you light your ceegars with fivers? 🤣🤣

The book mark was in the "Salad" section,  not an area I'd dwell on for too long. 

 

I used the book extensively in the early 80s, it has some brilliant recipes in. I studied GCSE Cookery at school with the idea of going into catering. But had a change of direction when I left. 

[39TDS]

4 hours ago, marsh man said:

We never picked Strawberries but we used to pick Blackcurrants , we got like a raffle ticket for each basket you picked then you could cash them in when you had finished , we would earn about a pound a day but we had to take our train fare out of that so we were not far short of ten bob a day , I tell yer what , even at that early age it made you look after your money after you had been ( working ) all day , MM

I think I have only picked a dozen baskets of black currants in my entire life, 50 years of which I grew them for a living. A soul destroying job picking currants.

Back then the baskets were probably those veneer ones too where the damned things fell through the holes.

Machine picked blackcurrants are still only fit for jam or Ribena, still have to be hand picked for fresh sales.

[mossy835]

i remeber buying 5 pints of beer with one.

[marsh man]

25 minutes ago, 39TDS said:

I think I have only picked a dozen baskets of black currants in my entire life, 50 years of which I grew them for a living. A soul destroying job picking currants.

Back then the baskets were probably those veneer ones too where the damned things fell through the holes.

Machine picked blackcurrants are still only fit for jam or Ribena, still have to be hand picked for fresh sales.

This would had been around the same time as the freshly cut Peas were taken to Birds Eye on a flat back lorry and we would often run behind and grab a hand full of Peas , time you took the stalks and the leaf off , then taking the Peas out of the shell you were then lucky to end up with a mouth full .

Some of the very first Peas that were cut with a Pea vine'r the farmer put the stalks and waste on a pallet and the pile was shaped like pyramid , these were then used for stock feed as many years later I have known them to bale the waste up to be used for Winter feed , another form of picking the women done where I worked was picking spuds that had just been pulled up to ground level , these were put in fertilizer bags and then the farmers boy would tip them out on a low trailer , the same sort of thing , the women would q up outside his back door and he would pay them cash . How times change .  MM

 

[old man]

21 hours ago, Dougy said:

The book mark was in the "Salad" section,  not an area I'd dwell on for too long. 

 

I used the book extensively in the early 80s, it has some brilliant recipes in. I studied GCSE Cookery at school with the idea of going into catering. But had a change of direction when I left. 

Did the careers twit advise going down the pit too?

Secretarial for girls. Pit for boys.

A caring, inventive soul he was?

[Dougy]

2 hours ago, old man said:

Did the careers twit advise going down the pit too?

Secretarial for girls. Pit for boys.

A caring, inventive soul he was?

Well they had a job to do i suppose, but no not down "T Pit" we had a HGV company come in trying to drum up recruits. 

But probably like millions of other kids at 13-14 I had no idea that what i wanted to do when I left school,  you got a career advisor looking into his crystal ball like he would know whats going on the heads of a teenager just on his early 1st months of puberty. Well not saying he didn't know but most likely forgot.