Calista
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Yep so a new penny is 2.4 old pennies, and 2.5 new ones is 6 old ones! I was there when all this new fangled metric stuff happened, as well as being at the incredible Wolves game.
Anyway, it didn't cost much to get in ...
Yep so a new penny is 2.4 old pennies, and 2.5 new ones is 6 old ones! I was there when all this new fangled metric stuff happened, as well as being at the incredible Wolves game.240 old pence to the pound...
Yes, April 1967That's very plausible, because it would be rare for photos to be taken outside the ground like that, and even rarer (in my experience) for people to be climbing over walls. The enormity of that game would explain both.
Edit: 1967 I believe. I'm in nit-picking mode this afternoon
Yeah. Pedantry is very unbecomingYep so a new penny is 2.4 old pennies, and 2.5 new ones is 6 old ones! I was there when all this new fangled metric stuff happened, as well as being at the incredible Wolves game.
Anyway, it didn't cost much to get in ...
We’re the old Pennys really that heavy?240 old pence to the pound...
Makes you wonder what the “real” attendances were back then.Worked those turnstiles as a steward in 80s. Number of people who climbed over stiles or tried to bribe way in was unbelievable. Bunch of tight gits us cov fans..... but then again I got paid to watch the City !!!
Yes, and gates were opened at half time and you could just walk inDidn’t kids mostly walk through the turnstiles under the level of the desk ?
Great picture. Yes the crow’s nest would be high up in that corner. Stood up there for years, can still see it all in my mind’s eye.
Looks like it was 4/6d (four shillings and sixpence) for an adult, which is 22p so it was well worth climbing over the wall to avoid paying
2/6d for kids = 12p.
Although I've given you a like, your amount seemed too high, and having looked it up I think 4/6d in 1967 would be £4.47 now?I’m todays money it’s £15.56 so given it’s standing it’s not that dissimilar to now
Although I've given you a like, your amount seemed too high, and having looked it up I think 4/6d in 1967 would be £4.47 now?
And for that you got Bill Glazier, Gibbo, Dave Clements and Bobby Gould...
Edit: and a win nearly every time!
4/6d is 22.5pSomeone said 67 pence
£0.67 in 1967 → 2025 | UK Inflation Calculator
This inflation calculator uses the official UK consumer price index. An inflation rate of 5.57% per year means £0.67 in 1967 is worth £15.54 in 2025.www.in2013dollars.com
So if a ticket was 22p and is now (say) £22, the transfer fee of £90000 we got for Gould that year would be £9m? Or is that not how old money worked?4/6d is 22.5p
No, as explained above ticket which cost 4/6d in 1967 was 22.5p in the new currency, and that's less than £4.50 today after taking inflation into account. The £90,000 for Bobby Gould (1968) equates to about £1.75m now.So if a ticket was 22p and is now (say) £22, the transfer fee of £90000 we got for Gould that year would be £9m? Or is that not how old money worked?
I started on less than that in 1970I remember starting work at GEC in the early 60's, from memory my pay was about £5 per week.
It looks like the average manual wage in 1968 was £22/week, but the average top-flight player got £59/week (equates to about £1140 today). I imagine going to Arsenal Bobby Gould got more than that, and would have been delighted with maybe four times the wages of the man in the street. Now a typical Premier League player gets literally 100 times the pay of the average person, and it's still not enough for some of them or their agents.I remember starting work at GEC in the early 60's, from memory my pay was about £5 per week.
Luxury! Well, of course we had it tough! There were 39 of us living in a shoe box in the middle of t'road. We had a handful of hot gravel for breakfast and we had to pay the mill owner to allow us to work!We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling. Try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.
Hot gravel? you lucky devil. Ours was coldLuxury! Well, of course we had it tough! There were 39 of us living in a shoe box in the middle of t'road. We had a handful of hot gravel for breakfast and we had to pay the mill owner to allow us to work!
It was cold by the time my turn in the queue reached me!Hot gravel? you lucky devil. Ours was cold
Much heavier, actually. You'll get about 65 old pennies to a pound.We’re the old Pennys really that heavy?
There were a few turnstiles where you could get in for a few bob to the turnstile operator clever thing was to use a different one each match as the old bill were on to it. Another one was to hang around the main stand and when the away coach turned up mingle in and walk in with the players worked all the time, even signed kids autograph books by the gates to look the part.Hope you weren't the guy that would open one of the gates at 2:50 to let some of the Bell Green lads in, about 1989 time. Ended badly though when instead of letting about 8 in as planned another 50+ opportunists followed and the guy got sacked on the spot.
That would be lighter?Much heavier, actually. You'll get about 65 old pennies to a pound.
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No. The original figure was 240 to a pound. If there's actually only 65 to a pound, they're heavier. Unless this Peroni's scrambling my grey matter.That would be lighter?
No.Are none of you watching Happy Valley
I stand corrected. My eyes must have read 240 but my old brain registered 24No. The original figure was 240 to a pound. If there's actually only 65 to a pound, they're heavier. Unless this Peroni's scrambling my grey matter.
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No worries. What did your new brain register?I stand corrected. My eyes must have read 240 but my old brain registered 24
Good defensive effort there in the name of the last 44 years of neo-liberalismIts
I’m todays money it’s £15.56 so given it’s standing it’s not that dissimilar to now
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