Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 15th March 2022, 9:12 AMI only got that if I was poorly as a kid.
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Quote: Billy Bunter @ 15th March 2022, 3:52 PMExactly what I was going to say.
Lot of poorly kids around the UK, but we swede bashers were made of sterner stuff in the East.................it's the sea air, you know, and skinny dipping in the North Sea at Shingle Street hardens one off, but not that bit, which tended to shrivel to a little acorn.
2001..........
1938.................. Don't remember this one - that's just under 5p a pack, what's it now £15?
1977............. Check out those prices, and B&W TVs still available
Still, £500 (today's prices) for a tiny B/W TV is pretty steep.
This is a good lesson, as I don't think we realise just how cheap TV, Hi-Fi and for that matter IT are these days, and what bargains can be had compared to yesteryear.
I remember paying over £30 for a "cheap" calculator, with the red LED figures in the mid 70s, just before Liquid Crystal came in.
You might like this link...
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator
Ta, but there are two or three UK ones, and I use that one quite often.
1926..................
I know I've used this on one web site, so hope it wasn't this one, as it's a very good ad, and the newspaper it was in, was bought by a chap who was researching and collecting Clyno ephemera - I have to admit, I'd never heard of the make.
Here's one for sale as it happens, exactly the same year of manufacturer, if you are interested for £14,500
https://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=102817&country=uk
1979 Wow! I bet they were heavy, heavy sounds, by some tin-pot cover bands
I remember it well... The Bert Rumbolds trio play all the hits.
1913...........early advert for a well known brand
I worked at their main Halifax company putting in some new auto-weighing conveyor systems on the Quality Street line.
I found it amazing.
Each individual Quality Street flavour is made on a separate conveyor line.
They all merge over a big hole and fall into a massive hopper - or silo to be accurate.
You can walk down a spiral staircase that runs around the silo and watch the absolute waterfall of sweets falling into it.
I sneaked a carrier bag inside my clothes to nab a few. I held it out into the flow and it filled in 2 seconds, nearly dragging me in.
Dear Mr Mackintosh, please find attached the confession of the choccy thief you trusted
Anon upholder of the law.
PS I'm fond of Toffee Crisp, if you've got any going spare.
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 18th March 2022, 9:46 AMI remember paying over £30 for a "cheap" calculator, with the red LED figures in the mid 70s, just before Liquid Crystal came in.
In the early 70's I was a spotty clerk at Rolls-Royce and you could get a Sinclair calculator 'on the knock' - they stopped so much a week out of your wages as they were so expensive.
Apart from spelling .boobies and shelloil upside-down, if you entered a number and then divided by zero the display went berserk as it searched for the answer.