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From: "Keith Smith" <>
Subject: RE: Old money
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:36:42 -0000
In-Reply-To: <00d501c189be$0f981060$ca9486d9@chrishal>


Chris & Caroline

I think you'll find that use of the term "tanner" was fairly widespread.
I'm from Yorkshire, where the term was commonplace.

Regards
Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris and Caroline [mailto:]
Sent: 21 December 2001 01:22
To:
Subject: Re: Old money


Had a question the other day that Tanner for 6d was only used in the
South and London, has anybody heard it used in different parts of the UK
or is this just a local nickname? Chris and Caroline



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Newport" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Old money


Yes, Dave, I just about remember the farthings (honestly!) and that was
how we said it then. I was living in London at the time and I think that
they (the farthings) lingered on there for some time after the rest of
the country had given them up.

However, there probably were various local ways of saying the same
thing.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Chalke" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: Old money


Surely 1s.11 3/4d was pronounced as ' one and eleven pence three
farthing'.

Regards,

Dave,



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Jacobs" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Old money


Donna,

There seems to be agreement on writing amounts amounts down to a penny,
but does anyone remember the prices in shops when we were young.

Sweets were a penny or a ha'penny (pronounced hay p'nny), or even two
for a farthing! (Written as ¼d) A stamp was tuppence ha'penny, or 2½d.

My mother used to buy material for making clothes etc from the Landport
Drapery Bazaar, and a typical price was say 1s.11¾d a yard. Pronounced
'one and eleven three'. Marked as 1/11¾ Advertised at 'Under 2/-'

Such prices were the equivalent of the modern trend of pricing at say
£9.99 presumably to make you think its a lot cheaper than £10.00

Arithmetic used to be a lot more fun when I learned it - nowadays its
the same for every kind of quantity, nearly everything decimalised.

Cheers, Dave J
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---- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Przecha" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:56 PM
Subject: Old money


What is the correct way to write old money? Is £18.8.3 correct? I like
putting s and d for shillings and pence as I think it is a little
clearer to (American) non-genealogy people. Is it possible to combine £
s & d. £18.8s.3d didn't look quite right.

I have been looking at a couple of inventories from the 1600s. It is
interesting that some of the most valuable items seems to be feather
beds. In one inventory the feather bed with all its belongings
(apparently covers, pillows, coverlet, curtains - and probably a frame)
was worth £6 whereas six horses were worth £30. In other words, a bed
was worth more than a horse.

Donna Przecha









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