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From: "Albert Molloy" <>
Subject: Re: [WES] Farthings etc.
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:32:37 +0100
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Yes Elaine, it was a wren.
Best Wishes
Albert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Corless" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [WES] Farthings etc.


> Didn`t farthings have a wren on or was it a robin
>
> Elaine
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Malcolm Borrowdale" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:20 PM
> Subject: [WES] Farthings etc.
>
>
> > Decimalisation was 15 Feb 1971 but farthings disappeared about 1960 and
> half
> > crowns in 1967. Ha'pennies went some time before decimalisation but I
> can't
> > remember quite when it was. The 50 new pence piece was introduced before
> > decimalisation and ten shilling notes were withdrawn from circulation. I
> > don't remember farthings being very common and for a short time in the
> > mid/late 1950s their scarcity caused the lady at the corner shop to have
a
> > problem giving correct change when the price of a sliced loaf was a
> shilling
> > and three farthings (or it might have been a shilling and a farthing).
> >
> > Malcolm Borrowdale (Swinton, Lancs.)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Toni Cairns <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 7:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [WES] Re sweets
> >
> >
> > > Well Malcolm and the gang, I think I am younger than a few of you,
> though
> > > thinking about it more I think I was paying 1/2 pence for TWO Black
> Jacks
> > > they where my favourite. Spangles did they change there name?
> Farthings,
> > I
> > > don't remember going to shop with them, what year did decimalization
> come
> > in
> > > around 1969? I would have been 6-7 years old and only just starting to
> go
> > to
> > > the shop with my pocket money.
> > > And Andy, yes I remember the chocolate cigarettes a good avertisment
to
> > get
> > > us young ones smoking, never stopped since.
> > > May I also take this opportunity to say what a good list we have here,
> > > anyones so freindly and helpful.
> > > Jean I hope Ali's feeling better now he has you mothering him, I'll
> write
> > in
> > > the next few days.
> > > Regards to All
> > > Toni
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Malcolm Borrowdale" <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:25 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [WES] Re sweets
> > >
> > >
> > > > Toni, you must be terribly young - the prices must have gone up for
> you.
> > > > Fruit salad chews were four a penny so they were farthing sweets not
> > > > ha'penny ones. There were also those fruit chews with sherbet in the
> > > middle
> > > > but they were quite big (about an inch and a half by three quarters
by
> > > three
> > > > eighths) and must have been a penny-ha'penny or even twopence each.
> > > > Never liked Blackjacks and not too keen on Imps but how about little
> > > sticks
> > > > of coltsfoot rock or liquorice root and penny Arrow bars? Of course
> they
> > > > were before becoming one of the big spenders and moving on to
> Pineapple
> > > > Chunks at 6d a quarter and Uncle Joe's Mint Balls in the days before
> > they
> > > > were individually wrapped, really were ball shaped, came from a big
> tin,
> > > > stuck together (and to the paper bag and to the fluff in your
pocket)
> > and
> > > > had little spaces in the solid sweet filled with ferocious oil of
> mint.
> > > >
> > > > Malcolm Borrowdale (Swinton, Lancs.)
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Toni Cairns <>
> > > > To: <>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:58 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [WES] Re sweets
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > How about Blackjacks & Fruit salad, 1/2 penny sweets....
> > > > > Regards
> > > > > Toni
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: <>
> > > > > To: <>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:59 AM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [WES] Re sweets
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Now I do remember the candy fags which came in packets of five
as
> > did
> > > > > > Woodbines and Weights.........Now whose next to refresh our
> memories
> > > re
> > > > > non
> > > > > > GEN matters?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Doug Cowden
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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