Quote: Aaron @ 26th June 2021, 12:35 PM
What on earth is or was Tolly?!
Briefly, the Tollemache family started up a brewery in Suffolk at around the same time as the Ipswich family of Cobbold and around the mid 1950s Tolly bought out Cobbold. Cobnut and Cardinal were originally Cobbold brands.
Quote: Lazzard @ 26th June 2021, 12:39 PM
A beer from Tolly Cobbold - a fairly ubiquitous London brewery, I think.
It was vile - as was every other beer on that list.
Wouldn't give you 1/6 for it now.
Wrong on every count and clearly your ignorance of the Tolly-Cobbold name and beers shows you know nothing about it or them. Their beers were much sought after by locals and visitors alike, for example, went down well with oft frequenters of Tolly-Cobbold pubs, such as the many thousands of American servicemen stationed across East Anglia.
The Tolly Royal Special Barley Wine, which was actually a beer, was very potent and would knock your socks off.
Quote: Lee @ 26th June 2021, 1:49 PM
Tell us Grandad, what was Decimal Day like? Not the whole story though, just get straight to the point.
On the 15th February 1971 the UK went over to decimal currency (my birthday as it happens and the day I officially started a very successful photographic retail/service business), BUT imo, they wrongly based the new currency on the £1 instead of what most people in the finance industry and banks said it should be based on what was then the 10/- (shillings), which was half a £1. ALSO, logically the 10/- was already a sort of decimal.
So, overnight, for example, a 10p (old 2/-) and say 20p (old 4/-) caused a lot of confusion and price increase scams because people thought the 10p was the same as 1/-, the 20p same as 2/-, as retailers and others slipped in price increases and/or rounded up prices.
If it had been based on the 10/-, then 10p would have the equivalent of 1/-, 20p = 2/- etc. etc. and people could understand the new coinage better and not get ripped off.
A good example from Lazzard :
Quote: Lazzard @ 26th June 2021, 2:06 PM
A packet of crisps went from 6d to 4p.
Everyone thought they were getting a bargain.
Exactly the point I was trying to make. The crisps actually went UP in price from 6d (6 pence = 2½p) to 4p. Nearly twice the price!!!