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I found this in the bottom of a camera box from an eBay purchase and though you might find it interesting.
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FP4 69p! I'm pretty sure I've got the receipt for my OM1 somewhere.
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oh lord, we've moved on from yer old half crown Nick
......I'm too young to remember all that "funny money"..........112 pennies to a pound....Not fair, you old fuddies were better off than us decimal dudes 
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Wasn't it 240 heavy pennies to the £.....half a crown, florin, farthings, silver three penny bit for the christmas cake, 10 bob note..probably missed a few The Yank tourists were utterly confused with our money. 
The Yank tourists were utterly confused with our money.
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Farthings went out in the 1950s - I can remember counting them (960 to the pound). Crowns were issued on special occasions. You did miss the 6d (the price of a bar of chocolate) and 1/-.
I'll see if I can find the receipt for my first enlarger (1961).
I'll see if I can find the receipt for my first enlarger (1961).
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oh lord, we've moved on from yer old half crown Nick
Almost right. It was 112 pounds to a hundredweight; but that's pounds weight. When I first started processing at home, I used the kitchen scales to weight water as I didn't have a measuring cylinder. Imperial measures are so useful...
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Still got my receipt for..... Rangefinder Alpha II enlarger:- 36pounds 6shillings and 11pence...bought in 1962
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back in't day, mi first filmoscope cost me 3 chickens an a bushel of goose fat, then't sherrif o nottingam invented groats, an chickens want worth nowt.......rite con that was, good job a got mi filmoscope when a did cos it took mi 6 years t'earn a groat.......
sorry bout that, gettin flashbacks reading this thread, just had 5 days in Yarmouth with the 90 to 100 club, the bus driver was......apart from being God??.......Nicolas Parsons cousin, and we talked about the war......at all times
never gonna do that again............ever
sorry bout that, gettin flashbacks reading this thread, just had 5 days in Yarmouth with the 90 to 100 club, the bus driver was......apart from being God??.......Nicolas Parsons cousin, and we talked about the war......at all times
never gonna do that again............ever
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Yeh, a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter. Nice little rhyme!
Still use that occasionally!
Found the receipt for our first house last week, £1,725! 1975.
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Love that! The "receipt" for a house, does it specify how many you bought?
ok, I found the agreement for the mortgage! Smarta**e. £27.50 a month.