If you had been given a bob pocket money (in the 60s or 70s), what jaw-breaking sweets would you have bought with it - or would you have used thruppence, or a tanner, to go the Saturday afternoon "pictures"?
2007-05-30 14:19:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Thank you all for a wonderful trip down memory lane. I had forgotten all about Lucky Mines - now I remember what happened my teeth!
2007-05-31 12:06:34 · update #1
sherbet dips remember there were sweets called lucky mines so called because some had coins in them they were square shaped with sugary coating and then there was lovehearts when u got older u could buy single ciggerettes from some shops
2007-05-31 01:19:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, in the fifties (I'm getting on a bit) my Mam would give me a tanner on Saturday with which I bought the following. A bag of semi-stale buns from the village baker for a penny, entrance fee to the local picture house on Saturday afternoon was tuppence, and the remaining thruppence went on a bag of chips after the matinee'. Happy days in a Scottish village.
2007-05-30 17:55:28 · answer #2 · answered by trasosmontes 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only sweets i remember are M&B bars and penny whoppers..
as for the pictures, the cheap seats at the front were thruppence, and the more expensive seats were sixpence(was that a tanner lol)
Oh the good old days when everything was simple and uncomplicated..good memories. : x )
2007-05-30 15:19:51 · answer #3 · answered by ;) 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Jaw-Breakers had chewing gum in the centre but I don't remember the name and it was tuppence to go see Saturday matinee( Flash Gordon ) and a big bag of mints. God that's so long ago it's scary.
2007-05-30 18:12:10 · answer #4 · answered by Jim Jnr M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm sorry !!!!
No disrepect although 10p used to get me into the pictures and 5p into the swimming baths and 2p on the bus so maybe I'm not that young after all although I am talking 1970/72 lol
2007-05-30 14:38:34 · answer #5 · answered by Zenlife07 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweet peanuts, Army and Navy (paregoric-whatever that meant) drops, rainbow drops, and Saturday MORNING pictures (ABC Minors-I had a badge) to see part fourteen of 'Zorro' (Never saw part one, or the last one), and something in black and white from the Children's Film Foundation.
Oh God, it was all so long ago.
2007-05-30 14:27:58 · answer #6 · answered by nealo d 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Spanish Gold, rhubarb and custards, liquorice shoe laces -any of those or go to Saturday morning pictures and make do with a couple of black jacks or fruit salads!
2007-05-30 22:29:25 · answer #7 · answered by RosieGrow 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Saturday arvo pics were among the best moments of my life as a kid - even if I didn't understand what was actually going on.
2007-05-30 23:23:29 · answer #8 · answered by John M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can remember my mother giving me $2 and sending me to the store for milk, bread and eggs. I would use the change left over on candy, usually rainbow suckers and root beer logs.
2007-05-30 14:23:30 · answer #9 · answered by bgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I would've bought loadsa sweets, and gone to the cinema, but I don't know what I would've done with the rest of the money!!!
2007-05-30 14:38:21 · answer #10 · answered by Jelly B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋