50p? Looxury! Actually when I really were a lad being given a half-crown was Croesus-ville and being given a crisp, new 10/- note was wealth unimaginable; almost too much to spend in one go. I suppose being pleased with very little (by today's standards) is itself, sadly anachronistic. We are all the poorer for being richer.
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Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now
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Howardh
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Yes, I remember 10/- notes. Happily one can still use £1 notes in some parts, dunno if Scotland still has them but the Channel Isles certainly do!
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Wow 50p! Half a crown did it for me, I thought my great-uncle must have been from an unusually rich side of the family…
We do. Though they are somewhat rare.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Let us be careful that we do not begin to follow the pattern of the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch... 
No doubt there are still a few around but at one time a great many seaside resorts throughout the UK had reasonably sized outdoor swimming pools. The one I recall from a childhood spent in Helensburgh had a machine which, in exchange for some coinage, dispensed what purported to be chicken soup! I'm not sure whether their decline was influenced by folk becoming less hardy or the summer weather being less settled. Some places including Helensburgh built an indoor pool and ditched the outdoor pool.
Cross City
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Do you really? I thought they'd been phased out a long while ago now?
From Wiki:
"the denomination is still legal currency and remains in circulation, although it has rarely been seen in cash transactions since about 2006."
If anyone still has a Scottish Pound Note they could spend it. Not many about and they no longer print them in significant quantity.
They do still print them though (or at least did until very recently). A friend got several new ones last year.
GusB
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I don't have a tea cosy, but there are a couple of teapots in the house. I prefer a cuppa from a teapot, but there's no point unless I intend to have multiple cups of tea in quick succession.
Do we? I know that the Royal Bank of Scotland was the last issuer of pound notes, but I haven't seen any for years. I'm fairly sure that the last one I had was paper and I don't recall there being a polymer equivalent produced. I suspect that they've been quietly shelved, but with no official announcement.
They print small quantities for gift packs and the like, not because there's any requirement for normal circulation.
Busaholic
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They never taught you how to spell Grammar then? Only mentioned because you've always been such a stickler in the past.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.....They never taught you how to spell Grammar then? Only mentioned because you've always been such a stickler in the past.
Oh yeah, they're more a novelty item than anything else.
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As you say, more the exception than the rule, but that doesn't make them an anachronism. We use a teapot, though not a tea cosy as the pot keeps the tea hot for a long while. Hotels and guest houses quite often provide tea in small teapots at breakfast.
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One tea related device which did fall from a degree of popularity was the "Goblin Teasmade" - a combined alarm clock and tea maker.
Still available from Swan. Now with blue LEDs.
Half a crown? I got that if we (choir) sang at weddings, handed out like communion bread once the punters were all outside. Got the odd three wedding Saturday to pocket 7/6 but never had the ultimate ten bob note day with four weddings.
I can remember buying petrol for the first time with a ten bob note. Two gallons at 4s 6d a gallon, and a shilling change!
Four Yorkshiremen? Looxury!Let us be careful that we do not begin to follow the pattern of the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch...
When I passed my test 10 Bob was about half a tank. In those days the numbers changed far more slowly and you could usually dispense a round amount in cash
dangie
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Buying a pop chart single on a Saturday morning for 6s 8d (6 shillings & 8 pence).
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I suppose our younger viewers might not realise that 6s 8d was exactly a third of a pound. It was a fairly common price point for things at one time IIRC.
Xenophon PCDGS
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The time when prices ended with "nineteen shillings and eleven pence halfpenny."
Killingworth
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Going into th local toy shop I passed on the way to and from school and buying a Hornby-Dublo printed tin plate cattle truck that cost something like 4/11 and paying for it with a collection of saved coins that included half pennies and farthings. Somewhere I have a Victorian half farthing left by my grandmother but don't think they'll have been used in anyone living's memory.
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Xenophon PCDGS
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My grandmother had a jar of old coinage, some of which went back to the early part of the 19th century. Amongst them was a solitary groat, dated 1841. There were three of these to the shilling.
Well, pour yourself one then (from your teapot).Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.....
When most gents barbers shops had the trademark red and white pole outside their shop.
When many gents barbers offered few "frills" beyond a "short back and sides", an application of "Bryllcreem" and possibly "something for the weekend".
When dentist's waiting rooms tended to offer old copies of "Reader's Digest" for patients to flick through prior to their appointment.
When many gents barbers offered few "frills" beyond a "short back and sides", an application of "Bryllcreem" and possibly "something for the weekend".
When dentist's waiting rooms tended to offer old copies of "Reader's Digest" for patients to flick through prior to their appointment.
Xenophon PCDGS
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When banks were quiet places, with no "piped music"