Anyone Remember The 1971 Decimalisation Ad....

[ToraToraTora]

"spend your old coppers in sixpenny lots"? Err indoors doesn't. Can anyone track down the actual ad, can't find it on You tube etc, cheers.

[ummmm]

I wasn't born ;-)

[piggynose]

i was 11 at the time, so cant remember any ads, but hope someone can find one for us

[wolf63]

I was in primary 3

[wolf63]

A few videos here http://tinyurl.com/jbnq5mp

[Bertrum]

I can remember "Sixpence is two and a half new pence"

[Mamyalynne]

//I remember being very amused by the jingles put out on TV by The Scaffold: "Use your old coppers in sixpenny lots" and "Give more - get change", as a way to supposedly help older people to weather the change.//

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/february/15/newsid_2732000/2732345.stm

[Mamyalynne]

The Scaffold.

In early 1971, they provided some catchy tunes for inclusion in a television publicity campaign heralding the introduction of decimal currency to the UK. In this series of five-minute programmes, titled Decimal Five and shown on BBC1, they sang such inspired lyrics as "Give more, get change" and "Use your old coppers in sixpenny lots".

[Jackdaw33]

Remember it well. This was because 6d was equal to 2 1/2p and therefore valid tender. The old 6d coin remained legal tender for ten more years until the abolition of the 1/2p coin.

[ToraToraTora]

they also still took the tanner for some time after decimalisation as 2.5p

[Jackdaw33]

When the 50p piece replaced the 10/- note it was known as a 'ten bob bit'. It was also known as a Wilson, after the then PM, because it was two-faced and seven-sided.

[saintpeter48]

Another rip-off in the 70s, prices increased etc, we thought that everything was cheaper because of the changes, but the opposite was the reality!

[petal54]

I was 11 also,my great aunt,in her late 80's, was very confused by it all

[Mamyalynne]

I worked in a shop when the changeover happened - I spent most days rifling through people's purses.

"Just take what it is, I have no idea" was the common phrase.

[Jackdaw33]

So was my great aunt. I remember her saying, "Why couldn't they just wait till all the old people had died off".

[Mamyalynne]

Can only find the intro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G76Zp0mxIGo

[wolf63]

Black & White TV !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4wr93OpmbU

[paddywak]

I remember it as the start of the great rip off.Even from day one most shopkeepers disliked the ½p and rounded everything up,then when prices went up by 1-2p people were still be thinking in "old money" that it was only a penny when in fact it was twice that.Some people might laugh but it added up I was getting about £15.00p a week as a face electriction and that was top money,some people outside of mining were getting a lot less.

[jambutty]

I remember it ..... just ! I remember Mum saying 'half a crown for a loaf of bread'!

[Jackdaw33]

Just ask the French what they think when the Euro replaced the Franc.

[Gromit]

I think you may mean the public information film, which was shown every evening on BBC1 before the news.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1964to1979/filmpage_decimal.htm