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29 Dec 23
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Teah
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£30.00
wont be any tears for souvenirs today..
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Teah
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£30.00
wont be any tears for souvenirs today..
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Backer's odds Backer's stake Payout Liability Teah 252.23 £25.00 £6,305.80 Total stake: £25.00 shetland 🐴 |
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Pays for cod n chips for 2 days
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🍟 & 🐟
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£11.50 here, just eating now, cant beat it.
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Never in doubt, easy money
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Relentless
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£11.50 is cheap nowadays..where bouts?
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Petts Wood, Kent
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No need for that kind of language Deptford. He only asked.
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ive just ordered butter chicken from indians next door to take home.
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fish chips and peas £3 Mathews Chippy Grimsby ( and local fresh fish )
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Is that Cod Howard or maybe Pollock , sounds ridiculously cheap.
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never been £3 since 1979
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don't know what it is but it's a good size https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lYI-WNJf4 (5 mins 40 secs in. )
https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink/grimsby-britains-cheapest-chippy-fish-8831164 |
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That's brilliant but he'll never make any money at that price for himself.
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sprat & chips..
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Cant remember what year but paid 4 bob for cod n chips many moons ago when Millwall played there, was delicious
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i recall a bag of chips was a tanner when i was about 10 in a chip shop in willington quay.
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Saturday morning pictures was a tanner, there was uproar when it went to a shilling!!
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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 |
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Yep, same as pictures, the chippy in Evelyn St where I grew up doubled from a tanner to a shilling, daylight robbery
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was never referred to as 'scratchings' up here.
'batter'. |
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those little greasy bits off the batter were ,deptford called crackling .....60s 70s south london.
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soz ^^were called crackling in the areas where i grew up rotherhithe and deptford 60s 70s ^^^^
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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.
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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. |