Our travels took us to Berwick upon Tweed on Monday, where I found this gem of a shop till in the town museum, located in the old Army Barracks.
It brought back many memories of real money: pounds, shillings and pence. For the youngsters and non English among you, there were 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound. It made arithmetic interesting! There were also hae’pnies (half-pennies) and farthings (quarter- pennies).
There were further memories of going to a local co-op store with my grandmother, where they still used a till like this one. I remember the small dapper man behind the counter and the effort it took him to pull down the handle at the side to open the drawer.
The decimal money we have today arrived when I was in my mid-teens and my grandmother was in her mid-eighties. She had it all sorted out in her mind well before the younger members of the family, and woe betide any shop assistants who were struggling, and not up to the calculations in “new money”. She had the answer to the total of her bill before they did.
There were so many memories from this small museum piece.
There was also a : halve crown ., a tree pence a sixpence and Sovereings .
As I `ve been a lot of times in Gr. Br. it was not a problem for me.
Those till`s where also use in our country for the decimal Gulden.
Now we have the Euro € and if I want to know the real price I still translate it back . Great find and capture
@bobhuegel Well Bob, as I said it made maths lessons a challenge, decimal money was easy to calculate. Britain is mainly metric, at least in most shops but on the whole it is organised chaos! Katharine
On the other hand, I wish the US would go metric for everything.
As I `ve been a lot of times in Gr. Br. it was not a problem for me.
Those till`s where also use in our country for the decimal Gulden.
Now we have the Euro € and if I want to know the real price I still translate it back . Great find and capture