I remember when

[SteveT]

you could buy four gallons of petrol (about 16 litres) for a pound.

In the fifties.

[woofmarkthedog]

So Steve

You don't have an I-phone then ?

W**F

[legalbeagle]

.....you couldn't wait to love me, used to hate to leave me.........

[SteveT]

I have had a mobile since they were the size and weight of a house brick.

I would not know what to do with an I-phone as the buttons would be too small for my fingers to use, and my failing eyesight and memory would I suspect confound this indulgence.

[legalbeagle]

........you don't bring me flowers anymore..........

[Roll Deep]

I remember when you could buy a pack of Space Raiders for 10p.

[legalbeagle]

And spangles.

[SteveT]

Spangles were, according to the advertising blurb, Hopalong Cassidy's favourite sweets, and the dimple in the middle took your tongue straight to where the flavour is.

[katie1997]

Roll Deep Wrote:

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> I remember when you could buy a pack of Space

> Raiders for 10p.

Yes they're a whopping 25p now. Disgraceful. They sneakily bump the price up by 5p every so often - they could be 50p before we know it!;-)

...Snickers were called Marathon (but they were already called Snickers in the US).

[SteveT]

Snickers were something produced by a horse or pony.

[????]

..all this were fields

[Spartacus]

and Wii was a dirty word when mentioned in the school playground

[brum]

..you got your first pair of long trousers at age 11...

[Spartacus]

Boy scouts were ...well boys actually... none of this infiltration by the girl guides...

[brum]

...and in bob-a-job week if you did a job, you got a bob.

[silverfox]

?1 was equal to 240 pennies

[brum]

...and the pennies in our pockets often had an image of King George or King Edward on them.....

[reetpetite]

..and penny sweets really did cost a penny.

[silverfox]

Four blackjacks for a penny - equivalent to a farthing each

[SteveT]

.....Nuttalls Mintoes were kept in a red and gold coloured oval tin.

Cadbury's put one and a half glasses of full cream milk in every bar....

[Brendan]

?the bees couldn?t count anymore, they just lay on the floor, so I swept them away?

[computedshorty]

?

[silverfox]

What was a third of a farthing called and presumably there was half a farthing?

[SteveT]

There certainly was a half-farthing as I remember playing with them, but I don't remember being able to spend them.

There was a threepenny 'Joey' which was a silver threepenny bit, they were rare and kept for things like Christmas puddings, and was pronounced threp'nee bit.

[????]

A penny - I remeber 8 Blackjacks or Fruitsalads for a penny