[PerkymiteParticipant]

It was good value for my Sixpence, remember those silver little things 😀 .

KIndest regards – Vasbyte

David

[MinParticipant]

In Wallsend where I come from we used to call the Saturday flicks, the tanner rush.
Interpretation a tanner was Geordie for sixpence.
The place is still there but its a Bingo hall!

[DaiCroParticipant]

Sixpence was also a tanner in West Wales. I had a shilling pocket money between the ages of 10 to 12. It cost ninepence – 9d to get into the cinema with threepence – 3d left for sweets. Threepence would purchase a 4 oz. bag of mixed sweets… I normally settled for mix of toffees and pineapple chunks… not many of each in a quarter bag but they both lasted a long time. If the film was carp the sweets soon disappeared – if the film was good they lasted much longer.

If the film starred Norman Wisdom I almost always had a couple of sweets to chew on the way home… which took a long time as we recalled and re-enacted his brand of daftness.:-D 😀 😀

Dai.

[GillParticipant]

Yep a tanner in London too. Anybody remember the threepenny piece? and if you were lucky you got a silver joey in your change (small silver coin worth 3d 4 farthings (small copper coin) added up to 1 old penny (1d) and you could by a licorice black jack sweetie (wrapped) or a mint chew for a farthing.

There is a website called "a quarter of" where you can buy all these old time sweeties. My daughter bought Stephen a box of different sweets from there a couple of birthdays ago. They came in a wooden box and were each in a different white paper bag just like you used to get when I was a child.

I used to get 1 shilling pocket money (20 shillings to the pound) on a Saturday that was a tanner to get into the pictures and a tanner to buy rasberry and strawberry drops (fruit shaped boiled sweets)

Gosh I feel about 9 years old again:-)

[eveParticipant]

Hi All
Must admit I never got pocket money,but I can remember going to the pictures on a Saturday morning,I think thats were my love of western come from,but my big thing was Flash Gorden,he was always on the point of being killed and you had to come back next week to see what happened.!
Talking about cigarettes we could buy looses I know they cost a couple of pence,but cannot remember how much, my mum used to send me to the corner shop

I have kept an old coin,it,s a threepenny bit. Eve

[DaiCroParticipant]

If you went to the pictures on a Saturday morning and paid to get in then you had pocket money – I had mine the same way, only our picture show was on a Friday night with a 7 O'Clock showing… so we had a good late night and the whole weekend to follow. We called threepence a Threepenny Bit as well.:-)

Dai.]

BTW – those Flash Gordon (and other guilty parties) were deliberately given 'cliffhangers' to keep us coming back each week.:-(

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