1970s shop! A nostalgic trip down memory lane! - Elliott’s Shop, Saltash, Cornwall
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- In the quiet Cornish town of Saltash, there is a quiet shop that once rang with the voices and laughter of customers from 50 years ago!
The owner, Frank Elliott, did not embrace decimalisation and did not want to pay business rates so he shut up shop! He continued to trade quietly from his side alley but mostly consumed the contents of the shop over his remaining lifetime. His aim was to keep the shop as it was and for the premises to become a museum, so he made sure to open packets and tins with great care so they could continue to be displayed as if for sale.
The shop is now a time capsule waiting to be discovered, complete with scales, money, original features and a mind boggling array of groceries that anyone who lived in the 1960s and 70s will enjoy seeing again!
Many thanks to the Tamar Protection Society for helping us make this video, especially Mike and Philip - you were stars!
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That was fabulous Guys.
My face is aching from smiling at all the memories......amazing how various advertising slogans are still 'hard-wired' into our memories - most famously "ah, Bisto"
I will have to visit this next trip to Cornwall, I had no idea this existed.
I love the fact he wasn't having decimalisation....my Grandparents complained like hell about it, not least the fact that retail in general took it as a chance to round everything UP in price!
There were so many shops like this in the 60's....no hurry everyone waited and chatted whilst the shopkeeper made-up the order from the list.
We had one around the corner from us in our village - general store open all hours who had her parlour at the back. If the shop was empty she would be listening to the radio (later the TV), maybe having her afternoon tea, and would pop-out with a cheery smile every time....I remember the tick of her long case clock in her parlour.
Long gone, but still miss her.
What a wonderful time capsule 🥰 And now I really understand how old I am 😂 I was 17 years old in 1971, and this looks really ancient 😃 My first visit to England was in 1970 with my parents and sister, but we went to tourist sites in and outside of London, watched the musical "Hair" and visited Carnaby Street and Mary Quant's shop etc., and we didn't visit any grocery stores, so I don't remember many of these brands. We had only a very few of these brands in Norway. We had others though 😃I used this kind of scale during my summer job in 1970 when I worked in a kiosk on a camping site where we sold fast food, ice ceam and some groceries. I also remember well the first shopping mall in my home town. It was called "Plenty", built in 1965 and it was a real sensation. It even had an escalator - the second escalator built in Norway after the one in Oslo😄 Thank you for this lovely video. Torunn 🥰
Same here. 18 in ‘75. It does make me feel old.
My mum shopped here in the 50s when we lived in Saltash
"One Thousand and One, One Thousand and One
Gets rid of that work-a-day frown
One Thousand and One cleans a big, big carpet
For less that half a crown (two shillings and sixpence or 12.5p)."
Advertising jingles must have been very successful, as I have no problem remembering this one after 60 years!! Who else remembers it?
What a heavenly half hour of nostalgia - thank you for discovering this little treasure trove 😊 We had a similar shop directly opposite our house, and I was allowed to go there alone from an early age (in the mid 1950s) because there was virtually no traffic even though we were in the middle of town. I gave the shopping list to Mrs Young, the shopkeeper, who made up my order and wrote the prices on a slip of paper. At the end she added them all up at lightning speed!!
Sometimes we needed potatoes which had their own special basket. They were kept in a cloth sack in the shop and Mrs Young weighed them out on a large version of the scales with the metal scoop-shaped container, as in the video. The really large, heavy weights you can see, would have been used for weighing such items.
Most of the coins have been mentioned, but a bit more about the halfpenny (pronounced 'hayp-nee'). For many years these had a sailing ship on the reverse, and they were known as 'ship hayp-nees'. I used to collect them in a jam jar. There was also a crown coin, worth five shillings - hence the half- crown at two shillings and six pence. I do remember seeing some crowns, but I think they went out of use during the 1950s.
Just a thought - pennies were quite large coins and you needed 240 to make one pound (₤1) 😮Imagine carrying that lot around!!
Finally, does anyone remember Virol? It was a sort of malt extract designed as a nutritional supplement. I used to get a spoonful of this every day and I loved it, because it was sweet and sticky. Presumably it did me some good!! And then there was Ovaltine - "We are the Ovaltineys." - a classic piece of nostalgia. You can find it on TH-cam, not to be missed.
Another jingle has just come back to me, sung to the melody of 'Smoke gets in your eyes'.
"They asked me how I knew,
It was 'Esso Blue'. I of course replied
With cheaper brands you buy
Smoke gets in your eyes."
(In case you're wondering, Esso Blue was a sort of paraffin oil used for indoor heating. If you didn't have the stove set up correctly, the paraffin would give off smoke (a bit like a candle). The jingle implies that Esso Blue doesn't do this. There was no advertising standards watchdog in those days!
Thanks again Sarah and Andrew 👍
The wren was on the farthing a quarter of a penny
Hi Sarah and Andrew….sweet store….loving growing up in the 70’s now that I’m 64! This store put a smile in my face that someone thought of us in the future…..be well and stay safe … Ana 🌼🌷🎈
What a fabulous museum! I would love to have a wander around it. I’d be there for hours. Thanks for taking us with you!
Oh the memories!! We lived next door to a shop very similar to this, and can well remember most of these old brands. Just for the record, The 10p and 5p coins were introduced in 1968,and were the same size as the florin(2/-) and the shilling(1/-) that they replaced, hence why some were in the till. The Farthing(with the wren) worth 1/4 penny ceased to be legal tender in 1961. Fry's, founded in Bristol ,became part of Cadburys, not Nestle, and now exists in name only as Chocolate cream. Harvey's Bristol cream still is still going, and is marketed in blue glass bottles( a nod to Bristol Blue Glass). Something that caught my eye was a box of manure under the counter! The 'Robinsons character' was also collectable as small statuettes, and not wanting to cause offence, such items can be bought even now in gift shops all over Devon and Cornwall. The 1970s scrapbook by Robert Opie is a brilliant window into the era, if you can find a copy. Or visit Bygones in Torquay. And what happened to the fresh faced couple in the thumbnail, I was waiting for them!😅
Brilliant my young days as a teenager. Took me back to so many items my mom use to buy.
I never really left the 70's!! Lots of our belongings are vintage dating from 50s to 80s. We live in a time capsule right here & now! In 1971 I was working just off Lambeth Walk in London when they changed over to decimalisation. A lot of the shop's items shown here are still on the shelves now, with slightly updated packaging. What a little treasure trove it is bringing back memories of really fun times when I was in my late teens. Great idea to film it Sarah & Andrew & hope you enjoyed your 70's menu!!😄 x J x
Takes me back to my very young days. Uncle was a manager at the International Stores so we had lots of the gifts that the reps brought round for sales aids.
Wooden butter boxes were used as seed and plant trays and as a kid we also collected Corona drink bottles and claimed the deposits for pocket money.
Ha memories; my trip to Sainsbury’s will be very boring by comparison.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane.
Hi Sarah and Andrew, fantastic walk down memory lane we are both smiling at all the products we remember buying back in the seventies. Liked your PC swerve round the Robertson Jam .
Thank you! (Nearly didn’t make the edit!!) lots of discussion about that one, Sarah :)
Thanks for a truly fascinating video. I feel it was more of a 50s/60s shop (as it closed in 71 I think you said?) with Edwardian fittings? Maybe it’s because I grew up in London. I remember my mum shopping daily in lots of small shops in the late 50s/early 60s; Sainsbury’s was our grocers, selling bacon from the piece, slicing on the bacon slicer and weighing on those electronic scales you remember. Come the mid 60s it was a ‘proper’ supermarket and mum started shopping weekly, carrying 4 big bags on her arms! We would love to visit the shop next time we go to Plymouth - pop over on the bus 👍
Lovely to hear Cornish people in Cornwall.
Hi Sarah and Andrew, I was born in 1952 and can still remember most of the items in that fantastic time capsule. It's great to see the good old prices £ -S -d . Ever since we went to decimal , it has gone ridiculous, One good old shilling is now 5 pence, Bring back the good old days .
Oh my Lord. I live in Plymouth which is literally just over the bridge from Saltash. I was born in 1971. I never knew this shop was here! Guess where I’m going very soon! How wonderful…a real trip down memory lane xx
It's amazing! I think you will enjoy it! Sarah :)
What a lovely trip down memory lane! I remember my mum buying sugar in a 'loaf' which she would cut up at home. I think I'm right in saying that salt was bought the same way. This was in the 1950's.
What a fascinating time capsule! ~ brilliant work by Mr Elliot, and present owners, in preserving all that heritage. So many of those manufacturers still exist and, as you say Sarah, many brands have altered their logos. Those were the days when grocery shopping was a personal experience, and not just an automated transactional process. I was 16 yrs old in 1971 and can well remember decimalization. I still have most of the imperial coins, and have a farthing somewhere with the sweetest little Wren on it. Pennies used to be known as 'coppers' , and a sixpenny piece (for some reason) was known as a 'tanner'. Also, a threepenny piece used to be called a 'joey' (maybe that was a London thing?). I still take Pears soap on holiday with me...a family tradition from my Mum, who's now 91. Lovely video :)
You just reminded me that a shilling was known as a 'bob' as in "It costs five bob'
@@Robert-fc2jn I'd forgotten about that....and there was a ten bob note! ~ now a 50 pence piece :)
How wonderful to look back at what the 70s in a shop looked like.I was 11 years old in 1971 I do remember the money changing but for the life of me I can’t remember what the old coins value was. Thank you for showing us this little shop. So many things that I remember. 😊
Such fun, I remember this little saying about bars of soap..."Can I hold your 'Palmolive' ?" and the reply, "Not on your 'Lifebuoy!'" 😂
Such a wonderful video !!
I (born in 1962) can remember a lot of these brands being (still) familiar here in Germany.
So many lovely memories of all those sweets, fruits, soaps and tins !
Isn't it fascanating to SHARE so many memories across the countries ?
A little side story: in Hanover a big manufacturer of biscuits is located - Bahlsen ( all sorts of biscuits and chocolate).
The german word for 'biscuit' is 'Keks'...because the founder of Bahlsen loved british cakes, but we didn't know the right pronunciation of the englisch word 'cakes'. So we called them 'keks' .....
Harvey's is still going strong and "Bristol Cream" is still sold in the "Bristol Blue Glass" bottles. Sanatogen is still made as well.
Thanks for another fascinating video. 👍👍😊😊
The jam should, in theory be edible if the seal is not broken. No chance for mould to start. Thank you for reminding me how old I am 😂. Great video. Thanks.
You realise your age when you see these products I used to buy and was a late teenager at the begining of the seventies. What an era that was and great to have lived through and the memories I have from that period.
Oooh sherbert fountains and Tunis cake!!! Yum! 👍💗
Bless him how lovely. A time capsule ❤
Hi Sarah this brought good memories we had two shops in our village the grocerie shop and the news agents i can remember going to the news agents after school with a penny and coming out with a bag dollymixchers in 67,68 from primary school which was just across the road and in 1974 i got my first job there delivering the morning newspaper's round the village before I went to school at 8.00 ,roy copenhagen
Great trip down memory lane 😁... thanks guys. Funnily enough I used to hate the raspberry flavoured Angel Delight 😝 😜🙏💖
I used to collect jam brooches when they were metal and really well made. ( 1950s).
Me too!
As a child, I always associated a comforting odour with my grandparents; after they died, I realized it was pears soap. This is an AMAZING museum!
Absolutely superb, took me and my wife back to the early 70’s in Nottingham, many of those products would have been found at home, or when I got ‘taken’ shopping. I guess I would have been 11 or 12 when that place shut its front door. A brilliant insight, and made my toes curl, either Angels Delight and Blamongue. Thank you to both of you.
This video was indeed aTrip down memory lane - it reminds me of my Day - I can hear him saying now “ Yesterday I had 240, 1d, to the £ and I woke up today and I have 100, 01p, to the£1” I can’t say that he was very thrilled about it as he had a mobile greengrocery van. Great video Sarah and Andrew - The actual shop reminded me of the mid 60’s so I would think it was the thought of decimalisation that was the final straw.
I wold love to come and see this shop :) Brings back so many memories. thank you for your wonderful video xx
Hi Sarah and Andrew. That was a trip back to my childhood Andrew mentioned a coin with a wren on it. I believe that was a farthing.....please correct me if I´m wrong..
Correct 👍🏻
Yes correct. Still got a set of pre decimal coins.
@@clovermark39 I still have got a load of old pennies with dates on them 1850-1870
I found one in my school playground when I was 7ish...Still have it 😊
When I was about 6 and my brother 4,we lived across from a Co op, back in the 60s early 70s, we would go in with mom and things would be weighed and wrapped up, butter was cut from a block, I miss those days when all the old shops started closing down, when people knew everyone and had manners, when decimal came in we were sent to a sweet shop to spend the last old money and wouldn't except it so mom went round and told him we have got to a certain date so you can except it, so we got our sweets, my gran had a cold pantry not a fridge, how they coped, but things are to easy now, my gran also had a boiler and mangle and a scrubbing board in the 80s
This looks amazing! Definitely need to visit to relive my childhood.
It's so good! Sarah :)
I remember that Tunis cake it was lovely, great shop.
Sorry to say I remember most if not all of those groceries and goodies from the 60s.& 70s. Im with you Andrew reminiscent of “Open All Hours” a great family favourite brings back lovely memories of days long past, the Co-Op stores were our local shops 🏬 I remember they stored butter in butter barrels and made butter pats with wooden spatulas it used to fascinate me, and sweets in paper cones were a favourite 🤩 the acid drops used to blow your head off 😅 a wonderful video Sarah & Andrew thank you 🙏 for sharing your time and memories 🥰🥀🤗
The Tunis cake was Lush😁😋
I seem to remember they started introducing the decimal coins before the change in February 1971. Yo can still buy Pears soap!
❤ That was very interesting and fun. I actually saw a few things that we had in Denmark too 😃. Oh, and there actually was a little box of cream crackers 😂. Just behind that coffee grind machine 😜. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for time travel 😃🤗❤❤
Brilliant shop. Taken me back to shopping in the good old days before self service and supermarkets. Don’t forget the classic seventies favourite, well ours anyway and that’s Black Forest Gateau. It was always a dilemma which to choose… rolly-polly and custard or Black Forest Gateau. Thank you you two, another brilliant video
Fabulous video - full of memories and remember those brands so well. I can remember being really small and going into the separate shops for everything and just remember "old money" well the pennies and sixpences but that's about all :)
Wow I’m American and I see a few thing from my childhood in there. My mother loved lifebouy soap. You can actually still find the Pear soap in our Dollar Tree stores. I love it. Oh gosh this is the best video. I remember our old stores like this. Loved watching them slice the cold cuts at the meat counter and returning the soda bottles to get candy money.
Wow what an amazing time capsule,this was incredible…I remember angel delight…so many memories.
A lovely time capsule. I remember shops in my childhood in the 70’s. Many seemed to be in people’s front rooms. I’ve lived in two properties that had been shops. One had been a butchers shop and another had been a fruit and veg shop and before that a hat shop. Next door had been a betting shop. My neighbour found stationery paper 📝 with the betting shop name printed on it in their attic.
Remember the Lucozade bottles covered in crinkly plastic? I only had that if I was ill as a child. And Heinz chicken soup. It seemed to be all branded goods back then, no cheaper shops own brand.
Hi Sarah and Andrew. I loved your trip down memory lane in the 70's shop. I remember Nan always got the imperial leather where Mum got the pears soap. Do you remember the lollypop sheet dip where you picked the lolly then dipped it in the sheet or chocolate cigarettes with rice paper round them not forgetting candy ones with the red dye at one end. Seeing all the other stuff in the shop I remember going shopping with both Mum and Nan and always getting different things or the same thing in different brands. Ie Mum sunbest Nan allinsons bread me mother's pride. Thank you for taking me down memory lane as it brought so much joy and it was so interesting to see how much things have changed not always for the better.
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I would love to look inside Elliotts shop, thank you for showing us around it's been fascinating, by the way the old coin with the wren on it was a farthing -there were 2 to a halfpenny and 4 to a penny.
I remember how when decimalisation came in how prices almost doubled overnight! My pocket money in 71 was 2/6. Two shillings and sixpence, or 12 ½ NP new pence. lol. Seems like nothing now. Blancmange. Yum. Baby Cham. Loved it. I wish you could still get it. I can find Harvey’s Bristol Cream here in the USA. Ahhhhhhh! Bisto. I remember the Fry’s chocolates. I thought Lyons was tea. Loved seeing the Robertsons golliwogs. I wrote a story about a magic Gollywog. Had no idea what one was at the time. So innocent. I loved shopping back then; going in and out of all the different shops. Remember how Mum could leave the pram with baby parked outside the shop? Wouldn’t do that today. You’d be charged with child abandonment or child abuse. At least here in the USA. I’m so glad this exists. I have to go to Saltash to visit.
Great video I remember a lot of these goods. Still caching up with your videos too much fishing 😄
What a trip down Memory Lane that was! When I was a child we lived opposite a shop very much like that - the amount of cheese you wanted cut from the block and bacon and ham sliced from the joint onto the marble topped scales; fruit and veg weighed out and put into paper bags.....
I used to love Tunis Cake - a special Christmas treat. My family always bought one but Christmas fruit cake and puddings were home made. I remember salt coming in blocks but not sugar. Funny how some products/brands are still available (but how different the packaging is now!) while others have disappeared but they're all still there in the memory banks.
As I said, what a trip down Memory Lane.
Reminds me of working as a Saturday boy in Woolworth''s (Stroud) in '76, lugging all the boxes up to the shop floor for the girls to arrange on the shelves. Great job and fun times for a 16 year old !!
Hi i come from cirencester and can remember woolworths
In cirencester my big sister worked there on the dele counter selling meat in 1977 great shop they still have them in Germany, roy copenhagen
It reminds me of my first job working in Woolworths, weighing fruit and veg and sausages etc. I used to love going to the sweet shop and get loads of sweets as a kid. Definitely no plastic or cling film wrapping on food in them days
A truly amazing place xx
My introduction to inflation as a kid. Local shop used to sell “penny chews”. Black jacks, fruit salad, rhubarb and custard. With a tanner we could get 6 after decimalisation we got 5 as they were a ha’penny each and a tanner was 2 and 1/2p. Remember the old meat slicer that did the see through ham. Sent up for a bottle of mackeson for the Xmas puds and they’d serve kids. Coconut tobacco sweet cigarettes. Even sent with a note to get 10 fags for your gran and a bottle of homemade alcoholic ginger beer. They’d have a fit now. 😂😂😂
My memory of Cornwall is Cod and Chips at Pollgooth Tavern and I am half a world away in Australia.....You should try it...
15th Feb 1971decimilisation.We still buy Harvey's Bristol Cream that was a good trip down memory Lane.. thanks you two
Thank you for a trip down memory lane
Beautiful. Your visit to the East side of Cornwall well rewarded. I'm not sure that Sandeman port is still marketed.
Thank you for reminding us just how old we are, it seems like yesterday! I Googled Peardrax and it’s still available. We really enjoyed your trip down memory lane, thank you both.
Brian and Ann
You’re welcome! A truly fascinating little museum! Sarah :)
Always watch u videos , this was brillant , will visit the shop in July when on holiday in looe , interesting and a shame you couldn’t say the word of the character on back of the jam, my wife loves him and got loads of toys and badges x
The Robertson's Jam at 5.46 shoes a post code Here is some research on google,
The M35 6DR postcode in Manchester, England, was first introduced in January 1980. However, its usage ended in May 1994.
Having grown up in the 60s and 70s I can remember exactly what those Corona fizzy drinks as we called them, tasted like, amazing memory trip! I remember decimal day luckily I grew up with both, but the older people then had a real struggle with it at the time.
Some items pre date the 70s and some post date the 70s but amazing to see again what I remember as every day items. Fry's cream chocolate bars were common then still.
That was a fascinating episode. Thank you Sarah and Andrew. I was teaching mathematics in a secondary school in1969. In readiness for the introduction of decimal currency in 1971, I taught pupils how to convert 'old' money to the 'new' money - and vice versa. Looking back, £ s d was a rather idiosyncratic system, with: 20 shillings to the £; 240 pennies to the £; 480 ha'pennies to the £; and 960 farthings (the coins with the wren) to the £. Book keeping necessitated three columns to accommodate £ s d, where decimal just needed two. Decimal coinage is just so much simpler. It seems strange that in the 1970s there was a reluctance to switch to a better system - well, that's my two pennies' worth on the matter! Greetings from Bodmin Moor - the remote bit. 😎
I think you can get the Harvey’s hear in the states and the prince’s sardines. The Persil still here I just love old stuff I see brasso
All the shops were like that. Very dark and rustic. I was seven when decimalisation came in on 15th February 1971. I only really remember the old pennies, farthings and sixpences. I remember going shopping with mum on Saturdays and she would be spending all morning walking round the shops to buy everything she needed. We didn't have the large supermarkets in Cornwall back then (well, not in my town). Convenience foods were very much a new thing and a lot of the products tasted pretty horrible. Funny, but I don't remember eating quiche Lorraine in the 1970s, but I do make them now. My hub is a professional coin dealer and would be able to tell you about all the coins and how many were minted etc. I think a lot of the things there are much older than 1970s such as the wooden boxes, scales and weights, bearing in mind the shop probably went back to the 1900s or earlier. On doing a quick Google check, the shop was originally a butchers and became a grocery store in 1880 which is why it looks very Victorian inside. Thanks for the memories.
bird's custard. make it with a shot of cream in the milk for an extra tasty treat! 😄
Unfortunately I remember all these products from my child hood, what a fantastic shop to visit, Thanks Sarah and Andrew - great video. cheers Bob
That’s a great trip down
Memory lane :). And many items were sold for years after that into the seventies and eighties weren’t they . I was 7 when he shut shop ! Looks like he or someone had the shop for a good thirty /forty years or more before that with the original fitments that are showing. Love your walks and interesting videos you both show. Used to share them with my mum too so we felt like we’d been away for a little trip 🤗
Co-op greensheild stamps
A lovely video, Thankyou both. Took me right back to our 2 village stores. Ham and bacon freshly sliced! Lyon’s made lovely fruit pies , we had them for a treat sometimes in the sixties. 🥰🇬🇧
Lovely trip down memory lane.
Many shops had coffee grinders…the shop would roast their own coffee beans too.
Got to say this is your best video to date thank you for the memories
Thanks for showing that definitely worth a visit just to talk to them two old fellas
This was so much fun. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Fantastic…❤
Food sold at 1970s prices😂 notice the lack of plastic packaging
How remarkable…Tunis Cake yummmmm
Great video, that reminds me of our village shop and post office in the 70’s and I had a Saturday job in Timothy Whites Penzance in ‘76.
Great video but where was the camp coffee a staple in our house ,GREAT sugar breaking tongs
Camp coffee was mentioned but there was none in stock! Sarah :)
I was 12 at the time of decimalisation and I remember the old coins. 5p was a shilling, but inflation means you cannot compare with today's values.
The old coins I remember are halfpenny, penny, threepence [nicknamed a 'joey'], sixpence [colloquially a 'tanner'], shilling, two shillings [or florin], half crown [two shillings and sixpence']. There was also a crown or five shilling piece, but these were just commemorative issues, although they were legal tender. I also remember the 10 shilling and £1 notes.
One shilling and two shilling coins remained in circulation until the early 1990s as 5p and 10p pieces, but then new smaller 5p and 10p pieces were introduced to reflect the reduction in real value and the old coins were demonetised. The 50p coin was also reduced in size and older coins demonetised. Pound coins began to replace £1 notes in 1983. £2 coins became part of the regular currency in 1998, although commemorative coins with a £2 value had been issued from 1986.
I do think Robertson's jam still exists, although they no longer offer brooches.
Cydrax and peardrax were discontinued in the 1990s. These drinks contained about 1% alcohol and prior to about 1995, drinks with below 1.2% ABV were considered non-intoxicating soft drinks and could be sold without a licence. However then the limit was reduced to 0.5% ABV, and these along with many other 1% drinks were discontinued rather than reformulated to comply with the new limits. 1% drinks were not actually banned, but they were reclassified and could only be sold with a licence.
Remember the logo…remember the golly we collected them…we swapped for pottery figures of a golly band…. Workers of all nationalities at Robinson’s loved the logo…until someone in the press got offended.
the high end supermarkets in denmark have re-introduced the coffee mill, giving customers fresh grined coffe again.
We had the ten pence coins be-for change over …so the coins circulated in advance….10p was 2/- two shillings…yes 5p was a shilling .
We were already married then and a fiver would buy food for the week for two of us. In the sixties I worked in a drapery store and although the tills were modern, you still had to add everything up in your head. That's 2 @ 1/9, 1 @ 19/11, 3 @ 3/6, 1 @ £1/4/6 and 2 @ 9/6. And the ladies would distract you saying "Have they got seems like on my nylons."
Hi just catching up on your videos a question you asked was sanatagin tonic I work for a supermarket up north a d it is on sale in my store
The wren was on a farthing I think.
Forgot to add, the coin with a Wren on it was a Farthing. There were four Farthings to a penny. Also, Lyons do still make biscuits, we buy their Rich Tea and Ginger nuts from Home Bargains. Your servant folks😊
Decimal coins were issued quite a time before decimalisation.
The wren was a farthing.
I wonder if he's got any clackers hidden
I remember playing clackers in the school playground but I think that was in about ‘68. Two hard balls on cords and you would make them clack together above and below.
1970's video quality, why no 4k? 😅
The wren was a farthing shilling was 12pence sixpence is what it says.
8oz was half a pound 16oz a pound
My mum has one of those scales we still use them at mums
So, no more walking videos from you from now on...ever?
Just notice…no sell by dates…no use by dates….so goodness knows how old some stock was back then…you could buy something that had gone off and mum would take it back…shop keepers needed to rotate stock as none had dates on…..yes..sugar was in a cone was sold by . weight.
The wren was on the farthing….1/4 of a penny
this place is much better than tate's modern gallery. this is the people's history.
Wren was a farthing, quarter of a penny
More like a shop from the 1930's
Presice ?😀