They were a nightmare. The leccy would run out and we'd be forced to knock on neighbours' doors, scrounging for 50ps.
2007-04-21 04:31:44 · 25 answers · asked by Snowth 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I remember the nightmare, but wasn't it great when the leccy man arrived to empty the meter? Our mam would give us extra pocket money, so we'd all be happy that day. I remember every 3 months, we'd be told to watch out for the leccy man, on our way to school, see how far away from our street he was. Then the cry of " He's in Shakespeare Street" would be heard, and we'd all scurry back to our houses to pass on the news! Explaining away how those few cardboard coins came to be in the meter was a bugger though!
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2016-12-04 10:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but we were the main door that people would come to looking for 50ps because they knew that Mam and Dad were so nice that they would actually keep quite a stash of them set by just waiting for them to come and knock.
That's when 50p meant something.
2007-04-21 04:49:24 · answer #3 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We had a bungalow in mablethorpe that had the leccy coin system, But not at home, the tele took 50p then though !
2007-04-21 04:35:38 · answer #4 · answered by ♥Honesty ♥.•´ `*.¸ ♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes - we used to wait on a main road and flag taxis down - some would charge me a pound for a 50p - if I was desperate I'd take it!
2007-04-21 04:36:51 · answer #5 · answered by ColTheGooner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My nan did.50 pence coins and every so often when the meter was emptied she would be handed back lots of 50 pence pieces.Many times i had to run to the shops as a child to see if they would change a note for lots of 50 pences!
2007-04-21 04:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah my granny used to have a 50p meter i remember my grandad asking the corner shop for change of a fiver in 50ps
2007-04-21 04:36:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I used to live in a flat which had such a meter.
I would make sure I had enough coins just in case....
Also one in the shower room for the gas!!!
What I did was to pick on the lock, remove the pennies and insert them back in hehehe....
Yeah, I know, I know....my miser landlady did not even suspect me!!
I felt bad really....lol.
2007-04-21 04:36:17 · answer #8 · answered by winterlotus 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
those were the days.couldn't wait for the man to empty it and get all those 50p's back so i could buy a bag of coal
2007-04-21 05:36:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we had one, and one night a policeman knocked on the door and just as Mother answered it all the lights went out! The policeman said "I,I, wots goin on ere then?" I promise you he really said it, it was so funny!
2007-04-21 04:36:27 · answer #10 · answered by doingitallforwrenches 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋