[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was at Blists Hill museum a few years ago, where you can change your
decimal currency for 'old' pennies* for use in the shops. In the sweet shop
some
12 year-old girls had just bought a quarter of sweets for 4d. One of them then
asked the classic question 'How much is that in real money?' My mind flashed
back to February 1971 when we were asking shopkeepers the same question, but
at that time 'real' money was £sd.
A fishing-tackle shop in Willesden High Road that I used to frequent, flatly
refused to "go decimal" on Monday 15 February 1971, [The reason I remember the
date so clearly was that I started a new job on that day in a photo-finishing
laboratory & huge signs were hanging from the ceiling with conversion tables on
them. I thought I'd never get the hang of it!] & continued to trade in
Imperial money until the day his doors closed for good in the mid-eighties!
Barry
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