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Deptford, remember 6d of chips going up to a shilling, or 5p when we went decimal, 1970? Basically doubled overnight, as did a few other things Still got your scratchings with it for free, though
Petts Wood, my dad used to drive the bus that turned round at Petts Wood parade Had about a 20 minutes wait, luckily for him there was a bookies in the little parade of shops there... Probably a Coomes shop
Deptford, remember 6d of chips going up to a shilling, or 5p when we went decimal, 1970?Basically doubled overnight, as did a few other thingsStill got your scratchings with it for free, thoughPetts Wood, my dad used to drive the bus that turned roun
wernt a lot of dough ,about in those days and us kids would have to find ways of earning our own money ,scrap metal could be found in the derelict houses but there was a lot of competition from other kids and adults who were also scratching around for extra cash , there were plenty of telephone pay boxes the old red ones with the big heavy doors and glass panels in the early 1970s me and a few mates noticed that the gpo had changed the cover of the payphone which before was a b,stard to get off and replaced them with a new type made of heavy steel plate but fixed with a phillips type screw ,all you had to do was undo the screw lift the steel plate off revealing the mechanism and put a pice of cardboard over the slot where the money would drop into the main strong box a then replace the steel cover and screw it back up again go back in a couple of days undo the screw lift the cover off and the cash that had built up would pour out ,there were loads of phone booths in those days and we were pulling that trick in most of them in our area you would only get a few quid or less out of each one but it added up and we had them on a rota so we had money coming in every day great days and it went on for best part of a year till the gpo got wise to it and changed them and put us out of buissness for a while.
wernt a lot of dough ,about in those days and us kids would have to find ways of earning our own money ,scrap metal could be found in the derelict houses but there was a lot of competition from other kids and adults who were also scratching around f
Foyles, I'm from the same area, Bermondsey, and of course they were called crackling, not scratchings as I said... Been in the West Country too long...
As for the phone box scam, we worked a similar one but it involved blowing up a balloon to block the return money, out of sight of course, then sticking a pin in the balloon and all the money came down the return coins bit.
Foyles, I'm from the same area, Bermondsey, and of course they were called crackling, not scratchings as I said... Been in the West Country too long...As for the phone box scam, we worked a similar one but it involved blowing up a balloon to block th