I would pay 11p for a bottle just to pour it down the sink. That stuff gives a wicked hangover.....Still wouldn't pay 11p for a bottle of Harp
We didn't get a month's wages is 71, we had a week's wages. Didn't know anyone who was paid by the month, but I'm sure they'd have been on a "salary".Only if our wages stayed at today's rates. Would be interested not see what the cost of a pint relative to a month's wages was in 1971 Vs today.
We call it a sin tax here. Yeah, we get burnt for that.Works out at about £1.40 a pint in today's money.
When I first saw this thread I thought "that ain't right". But you've done the footwork, and I guess it is right. I'm amazed "Light" was 10p back then, not because it were cheap, but because it wasn't 2/-.I can't make out the earlier part of the date, but decimalisation was on the 15th Feb. That was an excuse for a general hiking of prices and good old ripping off. Still, Guinness at 16p a pint sounds good even if it was less than three bob the day before. I went through the same experience in Oz in 66 where instead of decimalising the pound, they decimalised the 10/-. Much more open and transparent.
Lucky git. You had a fiver back then? (Flippin' rich kids).ah those were the days !!! the good lady and I could have a good Saturday night out 20 fags and fish and chips on the way home and still have change from a fiver cant even get a fish for a fiver today
"pence" is the plural of "penny". Prior to decimalisation there were 240 pence in a pound (£), while after there were 100 new pence to the same pound. So said pint of Guinness at 16p would have been 1 shilling and fourpence in old money, but the equivalent of 3 shillings and threepence in the new. No wonder people were confused, especially after the tenth pint.Just checking: "pence" is like the US penny, more or less? That would make what's on the chart some very affordable beer even if it is '71, right?
Pounds I get but never absorbed the intricacies of the rest even though they are probably completely straight forward.
Stella?Wonder what Belgium export was?
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