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[Taylortwocities]

Is beer still1/3d in Wigan?

 

[telectrix]

Is beer still1/3d in Wigan?

I wish. 3 freakin' words.

 

[UNG]

Is beer still1/3d in Wigan?

The smallest value coin of the pound sterling was 1/4d so therefore beer could never have been 1/3d as it would be impossible to pay for it

 

[Andy78]

The smallest value coin of the pound sterling was 1/4d so therefore beer could never have been 1/3d as it would be impossible to pay for it

Not that I'm anywhere near old enough to know, but could he have meant a shilling and thruppence ?

 

[static zap]

Not that I'm anywhere near old enough to know, but could he have meant a shilling and thruppence ?

Just looked up groats ,before my time = 4d ..then 8d
... I nearly looked at it as a fraction .. lsd we've got it licked !
(as my hippy Aunt would have said)

 

[Taylortwocities]

Not that I'm anywhere near old enough to know, but could he have meant a shilling and thruppence ?

Yes. In the day you just wrote 1/3 and everybody knew that was the cost of something. One shilling and thruppence.
I threw in the d after the three to show I meant proper money and not this newfangled divide by ten malarkey.
I mean why ten. Ten isn’t a common number isn’t it. I mean it’s not like we have ten fingers or anything. They should have kept it at 12, or a nice prime number like 7. Now that’s a proper number.

 

[UNG]

Not that I'm anywhere near old enough to know, but could he have meant a shilling and thruppence ?

Which would have been 1/3 to use 1/3d infers one third of a penny

 

[telectrix]

well i knew what he meant. My first beer in a pub was 1/9d.that's 1 shilling and nine pence. think that was 1961 . I was 14.