//Do you remember when you could go to the cinema , stop off at the pub , go to the corner shop for some gobstoppers and a loaf and still have change from a penny ?//
That must have been after the inflation of the 1970s, Baz. This is what I remember:
"When I were a lad you could get a tram down into t'town, buy three new suits an' an ovvercoat, four pair o' good boots, go an' see Frank Randall at t'Palace Theatre, get blind drunk, 'ave some steak an' chips, bunch o' bananas an' three stone o' monkey nuts an' still 'ave change out of a farthing."
Them were the days! :-)