The Oldies Thread

[RufusCat]

….i remember silver 6d;

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Knew I had a couple somewhere. This is the silver threepenny bit

 

[Littlesue]

Remember these things, a bit like dry toothpaste

 

[Ducans elbow]

Knew I had a couple somewhere. This is the silver threepenny bit

Be worth a few Bob now

 

[RufusCat]

Be worth a few Bob now

Depends on year, and condition. That's 1940 and fairly good so might get £1 or a little bit more (if I am lucky).

 

[summerisle]

Remember these things, a bit like dry toothpaste
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I sometimes make these, very easy : icing sugar, peppermint essence and melted chocolate. Also made violet ones which are delicious. All much cheaper than shop bought, and you can make them satisfyingly large.

 

[degsy]

Those pineapple chunks were lethal if you swallowed one.

They were quite slippery when you picked them out of the urinal too

 

[degsy]

Wasn’t there a silver 3d coin as well as the thrippenybit.

Went before the war

Edit 1936
They hung around in Australia until 1963
UK silver coins were 92(?)% silver
They went to 50% silver after WW1
and ceased to be silver after WW2 (1948?)

Brian May used/uses old sixpences as plecs

 

[Gerard_Francis]

Had great fun as a lad with these, keeping all the tabs up to-date

 

[Littlesue]

The big ones always the most fun,

 

[gonetomorrow]

You're never alone with a Strand.

 

[Eggs]

…given my impeccable first touch of a football and my movement it’s unsurprising that I was born on a Tuesday

 

[Littlesue]

I just had to look up what day I was born as had no idea. It was a Saturday, and being as I now have 15 jobs I suppose I do "work hard for a living"

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

…given my impeccable first touch of a football and my movement it’s unsurprising that I was born on a Tuesday

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Indeed - I was born on a Thursday (General Election too!) and have travelled the globe in my adult life for work and now 3,000 miles from home. My eldest also born on a thursday left college, went to work in Cork and now moved to Seattle. there seems to be something to this.....

 

[Cels]

I was born on a Friday.

 

[RufusCat]

I just had to look up what day I was born as had no idea. It was a Saturday, and being as I now have 15 jobs I suppose I do "work hard for a living"

Same, appeared at 12.10am on a saturday. Must admit always considered myself a hard worker in my employment a little less so at home as I often find other things to do, especially when some DIY is required.