National symbols

[John Liddle]

After a couple of weeks rest from the macro challenge, this week it is "National Symbols". I chose the Tudor Rose as depicted on this 20p coin.


20 pence coin by John Liddle, on Flickr

[Daisy M]

Is this a camera club in Backwell or Nailsea John?

[John Liddle]

It’s a group on Flickr David

[Trev B]

Four shillings —- just think what that did buy

[John Liddle]

Four shillings —- just think what that did buy

When I started work in 1967, beer was 2 shillings a pint - Glory Days!

[Trev B]

When I started work in 1967, beer was 2 shillings a pint - Glory Days!

When I joined the Royal Marines my weekly pay was twenty three shillings

[tigerburnie]

When I started work in 1967, beer was 2 shillings a pint - Glory Days!

You drank in some posh pubs then, I didn't pay that much in the '60's lol

[tigerburnie]

When I joined the Royal Marines my weekly pay was twenty three shillings

£2 18/- for my first wage in 1965 as an apprentice draughtsman(I got bored in the drawing office and transferred to the workshop and finished as an electrical mechanical engineer) I think a pint was 1/6d, same for a packet of 10 Park Drive and a gallon of two stroke for my Yamaha YDS 2 motor bike was 6/8d

[Trev B]

£2 18/- for my first wage in 1965 as an apprentice draughtsman(I got bored in the drawing office and transferred to the workshop and finished as an electrical mechanical engineer) I think a pint was 1/6d, same for a packet of 10 Park Drive and a gallon of two stroke for my Yamaha YDS 2 motor bike was 6/8d

You was seen off, I only paid 3/6 a gallon for my BSA Bantam motorbike

[tigerburnie]

Thinking about it I wasn't 16 till '66, so it was a year later when I got my 250cc Yam for my 16th birthday(generous parents stumped up the deposit) so I think 5 bob would have been the petrol price. I remember they also put up the price of a 45 rpm single record from 5/- to 6/8d around the same time, damn politicians.

[Trev B]

Thinking about it I wasn't 16 till '66, so it was a year later when I got my 250cc Yam for my 16th birthday(generous parents stumped up the deposit) so I think 5 bob would have been the petrol price. I remember they also put up the price of a 45 rpm single record from 5/- to 6/8d around the same time, damn politicians.

Reading this Burnie it seems you’re still a teenager