Ten Bob Note

[Vipers]

Remember these?, friend of mine who now resides in Sydney Oz, was going through his old suit and found this.

Back in the 60's this was a run ashore, my first pay packet was 4 quid a week, scrumpy (A pint of rough cider - and I mean rough) was 1s 0d (1 shilling) , so 10 bob being 50p, and 1s 0d being 5p a pint, it was great.............

[Fastra]

Brilliant!

Before my time, but invokes such feelings of greatness and black cars and empires and ricketts and things!

[R TOY]

I can remember having one when i was a kid......and i was RICH !! beyond my wildest dreams
hang on, whats this got to do with cars?

[R TOY]

HRH looks kinda hot , or is it just me

[Fastra]

R TOY said:

HRH looks kinda hot , or is it just me

Yep, you would though too - wouldn't one!

[Pigeon]

It isn't just you, I was looking at her eyebrows...

[5 wh]

How old was his suit!!

[R TOY]

Prehaps we should have a mass Ph suit rumaging and see what other interesting objects we can come up with. I'm of to check now..

[aeropilot]

Vipers said:

Remember these?, friend of mine who now resides in Sydney Oz, was going through his old suit and found this.

Demob suit obviously......

[doodlebug]

Struth - I used to get paid in those when I first started work...



on my paper round...

[rayny]

aeropilot said:

Demob suit obviously......

Wrong,
John Fforde was chief cashier from 1966 to 1970, long after demob. suits.

[R TOY]

Bit of a let down, all i came up with was a button in a plastic bag but DJ produced a £20 note, wehay.

[aeropilot]

rayny said:

aeropilot said:

Demob suit obviously......

Wrong,
John Fforde was chief cashier from 1966 to 1970, long after demob. suits.

Did you notice this in the post...?

[tyre_tread]

I remember going to the shops as a small kid and losing one. Boy was I in the proverbial!

[srebbe64]

Vipers said:

Tell you what, Her Maj as aged a bit!

[Vipers]

Well I'll tell you something else, when I were a small boy, I was sent down to the Co-Op Butcher shop on a Saturday, my instructions was to ask for "A joint of beef for four people for about 10 bob".............

BTW this is my mates original email:-

While on the subject of shillings ten, and how far they went I must tell you the following. When preparing to emigrate I had a clear out of my wardrobe. In there was an old blue civilian suit that I hadn't worn for "a considerable time." I checked the pockets before binning it and found the 10 bob note carelessly tucked into the top pocket, obviously the change from a run ashore and long forgotten. I was mortified to think that I had wasted such a large amount of cash, which was by this time no longer legal tender. Cos some lousy tt had sent us decimal. I have subsequently kept it as a souvenir of the "Good old Days" Note even the queen looks a bit younger!

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I will ask him when he emigrated. (To Oz that was).

Edited by Vipers on Saturday 13th September 23:11

[turbobloke]

Blimey a ten bob note, brings back memories.

A nine bob note is rarer

[welsh blackbird]

I found a ten bob note on the side of the road. It was 1960 something and I was an honest kid. I took it to the village police station and handed it in.

Two weeks later a PC called at our house with a 2/6 reward from the person that lost the note!!!

Those were the days

[Vipers]

turbobloke said:

Blimey a ten bob note, brings back memories.

A nine bob note is rarer

Paddy says to the bartender

"Can you change an 18 pound note"

Bartender says

"Oh sure, 2 nines, or 3 sixs?"

BTW just hope our readers under stand your reference to a 9 bob note,

[turbobloke]

Vipers said:

turbobloke said:

Blimey a ten bob note, brings back memories.

A nine bob note is rarer

Paddy says to the bartender

"Can you change an 18 pound note"

Bartender says

"Oh sure, 2 nines, or 3 sixs?"

BTW just hope our readers under stand your reference to a 9 bob note,