Robert Ensor (bob)
master brummie
It's hard to imagine these days some of the old math problems in old money.
Fist off who ever had that much money that it was a problem, a pound went so far back then there was a need for small amount coins plus remember a pocket full of pennies the weight would pull down your trousers and you ended up with holes in your pockets.
The old white fiver, my grandfather sent my pop to the shops with one when he was a kid, the shop keeper called the police he could not believe a child could come to have that much money
The change over from old money to new money a bob became 5 new pence everything was shown in old and new money we had to reprice all the merchandise in the shop with the new money amount.
The older customers had such a difficult time having a new type of coinage thrust upon them and the value of the old changed.
I remember having all the new money at the shop in bags ready to use, and then people saying don't give me any of that new money in my change.
One of the things was running the shop with a cash till that was never designed for that many types of coins we just ended up pairing the old and new but keept the old Tanner on its own
My mother's math addition was unbelievable she would have a counter full of groceries and would do the addition in her head once in while she would use a scrap of paper, never thought to ask her about how easier it became to reckon a order.
Fist off who ever had that much money that it was a problem, a pound went so far back then there was a need for small amount coins plus remember a pocket full of pennies the weight would pull down your trousers and you ended up with holes in your pockets.
The old white fiver, my grandfather sent my pop to the shops with one when he was a kid, the shop keeper called the police he could not believe a child could come to have that much money
The change over from old money to new money a bob became 5 new pence everything was shown in old and new money we had to reprice all the merchandise in the shop with the new money amount.
The older customers had such a difficult time having a new type of coinage thrust upon them and the value of the old changed.
I remember having all the new money at the shop in bags ready to use, and then people saying don't give me any of that new money in my change.
One of the things was running the shop with a cash till that was never designed for that many types of coins we just ended up pairing the old and new but keept the old Tanner on its own
My mother's math addition was unbelievable she would have a counter full of groceries and would do the addition in her head once in while she would use a scrap of paper, never thought to ask her about how easier it became to reckon a order.