Anyone Else Remember

[Cleve van Leef]

When 5/- (shillings) was referred to as a dollar.

If so you use be getting old. Like me.

[splott parker]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

When 5/- (shillings) was referred to as a dollar.

If so you use be getting old. Like me.

Half crown...’arf a dollar

[jon1959]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

https://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/old_money/slang.html

I remember my grandfather using 'dollar' for five shillings back in the 60s - but never heard it from anyone else. He's so old he's been dead for almost 40 years!

[Seabird]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

I don't remember a five-shilling piece but I do remember the half-a-crown coin. Couple of those in your trouser pocket and you had to tighten your belt.

[insider]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

25p chips in les croups used to be called dollar chips.

[tforturton]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

https://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_bri...ney/slang.html

I remember my grandfather using 'dollar' for five shillings back in the 60s - but never heard it from anyone else. He's so old he's been dead for almost 40 years!

Yep, my grandparents used to say a dollar for five shillings, many years ago.

[bobh]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

All the above

[Malckent]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

I don't remember a five-shilling piece but I do remember the half-a-crown coin. Couple of those in your trouser pocket and you had to tighten your belt.

Ha yes they were quite heavy coins. Even though the five shilling piece was legal tender I never saw any in circulation. I do however own a few, one of them with Winston Churchill on I do believe it came out when he died. Can also remember the farthings and three penny bit. What an old codger.

[splott parker]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

Ha yes they were quite heavy coins. Even though the five shilling piece was legal tender I never saw any in circulation. I do however own a few, one of them with Winston Churchill on I do believe it came out when he died. Can also remember the farthings and three penny bit. What an old codger.

I don’t remember farthings but they disappeared a fair time before the threepenny bit.

[Malckent]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

I don’t remember farthings but they disappeared a fair time before the threepenny bit.

Yes you are right. I was born in 53 and they went out of circulation in 56. I never used them but for some reason or another my mum and dad still had them in jars in the house and ive got them now.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

I remember the old 'Florin' coins.

[Cleve van Leef]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

I remember the old 'Florin' coins.

2/-

[Enoch Mort]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

I don't remember a five-shilling piece but I do remember the half-a-crown coin. Couple of those in your trouser pocket and you had to tighten your belt.

I remember taking 2 half crowns to Junior School on a Monday morning to pay for a week's school dinners. Half a Crown was a substantial coin but was withdrawn in 1970 before decimalisation. Is Junior School still a phrase in usage or has that gone like the half crown ?

[Malckent]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

I remember taking 2 half crowns to Junior School on a Monday morning to pay for a week's school dinners. Half a Crown was a substantial coin but was withdrawn in 1970 before decimalisation. Is Junior School still a phrase in usage or has that gone like the half crown ?

In my day it was infants, juniors and seniors then get a flipping job. Nowadays its year 5 or year 8 etc, leaves me baffled.

[Cleve van Leef]

Re: Anyone Else Remember

In my day it was infants, juniors and seniors then get a flipping job. Nowadays its year 5 or year 8 etc, leaves me baffled.

It was.

There are some ‘Old Farts’ on here, thought I was the only one