Reply to: How much !!!!!!!

[Sysman]

Ah. Petrol.

4/6d a gallon of 4 star.

And you could still buy 5 star if you had something that required it.

Like a 3.5 litre Rover or a Jaguar.

Ain't nostalgia great?

I think I've still got the odd recording of The Saint from 1968. Lovely old cars, including Police Wolseleys. With bells, not sirens.

[NickFitz]

On a related note, I remember the uproar in the papers when petrol hit £1 a gallon...

I remember queues for petrol

I remember the Government issuing petrol ration books in 1973, although in the end they were never used.

One further problem with petrol going over £1/gallon was that the old mechanical pumps on every forecourt had been designed in the days when such a thing was unthinkable, and couldn't be set to a higher price than £1/gallon. The workaround was to set the price to that of a half-gallon, although a gallon still had to be pumped to clock up that amount, meaning that the actual cost of the fuel you'd pumped was twice what the pump displayed. Stickers saying "X 2" were hastily affixed to the right of the price display on petrol pumps throughout the land

[RichardCranium]

I remember queues for petrol

New Year's Eve wasn't it?

[stek]

I remember a pint of cider costing 13p in Walsall in the '70s.

Alcohol prices may soon be shooting up even faster and a lot more.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Walsall

[OwlHoot]

I remember a pint of cider costing 13p in Walsall in the '70s.

Alcohol prices may soon be shooting up even faster and a lot more.

[meridian]

I remember queues for petrol

We had Carless Days. Your car got a sticker which had to be placed in the upper middle of your windscreen to show which day you weren't allowed to drive.

Dad's Valiant couldn't be driven on a Thursday.

[Sysman]

I remember (as a kid) a round of 4-5 drinks costing less than a quid in the local working mens club.

I can remember getting 4 pints for a quid, then within the space of about 3 months it was only 3 pints for a quid. Inflationary 1970s!

This was oop north, not London prices.

[vetran]

Yes but it will save 3000 lives,won't somebody please think of the children we are trying to make sure they can't afford more than 3 pints with their pocket money.

[Moscow Mule]

I remember (as a kid) a round of 4-5 drinks costing less than a quid in the local working mens club.

[norrahe]

On a related note, I remember the uproar in the papers when petrol hit £1 a gallon...

I remember queues for petrol

[ratewhore]

On a related note, I remember the uproar in the papers when petrol hit £1 a gallon...

[norrahe]

I'll find out how much it costs in the local in the village I come from in Ireland next week (if flights haven't been cancelled or airports closed).

I don't drink it over here as I find it isn't kept well. I stick to cask conditioned ales (but again it is all down to the pub).

[stek]

I can remember it being 60p for a pint of Greenall's Bitter (rank) and it being £1.20 to get into the Burnden Paddock on matchdays (also rank)...

Hence my rule, going to watch the Wanderers should equal two pints, and as a pint has not reached 16 quid yet I'm not gonna be going...

[DaveB]

I can remember bog standard bitter being 80p a pint, or you could splash out on Directors or Hicks Special Draft for £1.

When I got to Uni in London a bottle of Newcastle Brown in the union bar was £1. There was uproar when it went up to £1.20.

[meridian]

I remember it being £1. You're cleary all very very old.

Guinness has been £3.40 in my local for a while now (and before that it was £3.30, and before that £3.20). So I'm not sure what this "news" refers to.

Pah! Lightweights!

Guinness is €5.40 in my local (what's that these days? about a fiver?) and I only live about 20 miles from St James' Gate.