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Great find,Thanks for sharing Derek/Mark.

We should petition to bring prices back down to those

I got a "BEER MACHINE" for Chrimbo off my beloved!!!
Its an all in one home brew kit, just add water, makes 28 pints per keg and you get 3 lots of lager!!!!!
Soooooo, my beer will be even cheaper than that!!!

Wow, 1961; just out of the RAF & living in that London (at the poor end of the King's Road, Chelsea).

I couldn't see that date for looking chris (1961)

LOL, take the dark glasses off Mark.

The prices may look good but in 1961 I had finished my apprentaship in Lairds and was then on £11 a week as a tradesman. The Liverpool Echo was 2d or 2 and a half d. Thats old money not this new funny mnoney we have now.

oops mean money

Great find,Thanks for sharing

Yes, using the average earnings comparison, a pint of bitter costing 1s.5d would cost £2.56 now, so reasonably comparable.
What was your trade at Laird's; my dad worked there all his life, did a 5 year apprenticeship.

For those too young to know about money before Decimalisation

d stands for penny or pence

1 farthing
1 halfpenny = 2 farthings
1d penny = 2 halfpenny
3d pennies (known as thripny bit or thripny joey) = 3pennies
6d pennies (known as a tanner) = 6 pennies
12d pennies ( known as a shilling or a bob) = 12 pennies
24d pennies (known as 2 bob or a florin) = 24 pennies
30d pennies (known as half a crown or a half dollar) = 30 pennies
120d pennies (known as 10 bob note) = 120 pennies
240d pennies (known as a pound note} = 240 pennies


other notes same as today

Anyone interested and I'll try to send photos of the coins and noes measured against a ruler

Going by the size of 1d ( one penny) which was about 2 inches in diameter and half crown slightly larger it is no wonder trousers and jackets always got holes in the pockets

so how much was a pint of Carlsberg? 19p?

19d
I think it works out as roughly 2.4d to 1p
so in todays money 8p

That's 8p for a "Small Bottle" of Carlsberg

The only draught beers are bitter at about 4p and Mild at about 3p a Half Pint.

Babycham and Cherry B!! Wonder if that will ever come back into fashion I remember when I first started working in pubs, a guy used to drink Rum & Pep - it was rank! He used to down them like there was no tomorrow.

Birkenhead Brewery Bitter. 1/5d per pint (old ginch). Real "Hottin Lads" Ale. 15 pints of that and you were still able to ride home on yer bike.

Some Birkenhead Brewery Items i have

1956 price list Birkenhead Brewery.
How many of these drinks have now disappeared from pubs

Moussec - a sparkling British wine
Can somebody put up a modern price list from their local please

Wasn't Moorhouse's a local firm? Think they had a factory somewhere down near Birkenhead Central.

Imagine the looks you'd get now if you went into a pub in Birkenhead and asked for a crème de menthe or an egg flip!

Have read that Moorhouse factory in Canning Street and possibly the same one as Taylor Street
May have been the Transport Museum at a guess

You're probably right Derek. Don't know why, but for some reason I thought they had a place down by Thomas St.

Must have dreamt that one.

Thomas street used for storing
(from pub book one by Boumphrey

Cheers Derek. Nice to know I haven't lost my marbles just yet.