Reminders of 'old' money - for fun

[Disney_time]

Originally Posted by Borderbairn

My Nan had a meter in her house for electricity which ran on single shillings -5p- today. God help us if she was cooking and it ran out and nobody had a single shilling. No such thing as credit then.

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We stayed in a holiday cottage with a meter like that in the 80s. The owner was paying the bill, but you still needed the shilling to feed through and it fell out the bottom and you fed it through again. If you didn't do it enough times, the electricity went off.

[megaflyer]

Originally Posted by Disney_time

We stayed in a holiday cottage with a meter like that in the 80s. The owner was paying the bill, but you still needed the shilling to feed through and it fell out the bottom and you fed it through again. If you didn't do it enough times, the electricity went off.

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I remember going to our char lady’s house once when she was ill and she had one and my Mother let feed it - if I remember correctly you put the coin in then turned a dial (like a timer thing ?) - odd memories for a young child but it was a novelty

[minniemouse]

Originally Posted by megaflyer

Here I sit
Broken Hearted
Paid 1d
And only farted

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One of my late dad's favourite sayings.

Originally Posted by Borderbairn

My Nan had a meter in her house for electricity which ran on single shillings -5p- today. God help us if she was cooking and it ran out and nobody had a single shilling. No such thing as credit then.

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A bob for the meter surely, 'shilling' is so posh.

[SgtElias]

I remember a court case in the local paper, must have been in the 80s, the gasman came round to empty the meter which used to happen, and did you sometimes get a refund as well ?

Anyway, he went to this house and took the drawer out, to his surprise, it was full of water.

The slightly dodgy house tenant had managed to perfect a mold of a 50p piece, no idea how he done it, he would then fill the mold with water, it obviously weighed the same etc, freeze the mold, and he fed his meter with these coins made of water, quite ingenious really.

[megaflyer]

Bob a Job week

[Tinks2014]

I remember at my nan having to put money in the tv and hardly any channels .

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Penny for the Guy.

More like Penny for a bag of rags masquerading as a Guy!

[megaflyer]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

Penny for the Guy.

More like Penny for a bag of rags masquerading as a Guy!

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I remember that and my parents “banning’ us for doing it was it was a form of begging. Of course we took no notice (and they knew that but had to say dont do it) as we used clothes from my Mothers rag bag she kept in the old wash house. When we had enough money for sweeties we placed the guy in the ditch by the Great North Road to scare the drivers lol (about as mischief we ever got up to)

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by megaflyer

I remember that and my parents “banning’ us for doing it was it was a form of begging. Of course we took no notice (and they knew that but had to say dont do it) as we used clothes from my Mothers rag bag she kept in the old wash house. When we had enough money for sweeties we placed the guy in the ditch by the Great North Road to scare the drivers lol (about as mischief we ever got up to)

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How mischievous! I would never have done that. Mmm, ok I did.

[duchy]

Originally Posted by Tinks2014

I remember at my nan having to put money in the tv and hardly any channels .

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I was amazed when I saw one of those , in the rec room of a caravan park in Tramore as a kid. I think they were more common in Ireland than in the U.K.