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Post by Chris M on Apr 10, 2007 8:18:15 GMT
In a change to the scheduled program, I bring you a two part question. The original picture will now be shown on the 19th of April. Part 1: (click for a slightly larger view) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 8:50:47 GMT
I just saw this yesterday, but I can't quite remember where - my first choice is Hammersmith Met.
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Post by rayb on Apr 10, 2007 15:12:09 GMT
East Ham WB. Roughly half way up the 3rd car from the leading end of a "D". I saw this recently and thought it'd make a great picture for the quiz...
Someone else obviously had the same thought...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 15:52:26 GMT
YES!!!!!!
ARGH ARGH ARGH - as soon as you said East Ham I instantly visualized it!!
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Post by Tubeboy on Apr 10, 2007 15:54:22 GMT
Calm down dear, its only a quiz! ;D
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Post by Oracle on Apr 10, 2007 17:13:21 GMT
It's "East 'Am and tuppence a cuppa Guv!". 2d...bought you eight small 4-a-penny chews at the local sweet shop in Harlington Road, Feltham.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 17:26:53 GMT
Calm down dear, its only a quiz! ;D I am calm - just frustrated, as East Ham would have been my next guess had RayB not turned up... |
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Post by Tubeboy on Apr 10, 2007 17:49:41 GMT
Well its nice someone new got it.
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Post by Chris M on Apr 10, 2007 17:50:05 GMT
Part 2 (a slightly larger and higher quality version is available by clicking the above image)
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Post by rayb on Apr 10, 2007 17:57:16 GMT
Calm down dear, its only a quiz! ;D I am calm - just frustrated, as East Ham would have been my next guess had RayB not turned up... I see it almost daily, so didn't hesitate. Had my usual luck applied, there'd be another one just like this somewhere else on the network... RayB :-) |
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Post by Chris M on Apr 11, 2007 8:39:16 GMT
AnswerWell done Ray - this is exactly where you say it is, and Aspect was the one who thought it would make a good photo for the quiz. He also sent me the following photo as a bonus for you all:  (click for a larger version)
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Post by trainopd78 on Apr 11, 2007 9:24:41 GMT
After driving through that station thousands of times, i've never noticed that sign.  What a gem! Glad they didn't obliterate it. |
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Post by Oracle on Apr 11, 2007 9:39:34 GMT
After that I just had to 'ave a cup or Rosey Lee!
Any idea when it dates back to? Wartime possibly?
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Post by Chris M on Apr 11, 2007 10:11:45 GMT
I spent a bit of time photographing at East Ham back in January and I didn't spot it either
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Post by Dmitri on Apr 11, 2007 14:04:47 GMT
An interesting bit of history, I'd say. "2d" means "2 old pence", right?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2007 15:14:49 GMT
"2d" means "2 old pence", right? It does, from the days when there were 240 pence in a pound, so quite a bargain! Must predate decimalisation in 1971, probably by a few decades. |
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Post by Chris M on Apr 11, 2007 15:28:17 GMT
An interesting bit of history, I'd say. "2d" means "2 old pence", right? Yes. In trying to find anything more about this, I've found that it has been uncovered since at least November 2006. Assuming it is from around wartime ... In 2005, £0 0s 2d from 1945 was worth: £0.24 using the retail price index £0.25 using the GDP deflator £0.75 using average earnings £0.84 using per capita GDP £1.03 using the GDP |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2007 15:58:20 GMT
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Post by Chris M on Apr 11, 2007 17:06:39 GMT
That is the post from November 2006 I was talking about!
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Post by frimm on Apr 11, 2007 22:03:40 GMT
After that I just had to 'ave a cup or Rosey Lee! Any idea when it dates back to? Wartime possibly? Or at the latest the late 40's to early 50's I'd have thought Oracle... I do remember as a lad doing me saturday job at the end of the 60's being sent out to the cafe next door to get the teas in and by then it was a tanner a cup (6d) |
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Post by Oracle on Apr 11, 2007 22:12:26 GMT
A tanner! Wow that's a lot of money! Perhaps more for a cup to cover breakages and returns?
A tanner bought you a packet of Rolos around 1960 or were they 4d? My bus fare, 3 miles from Hounslow West Vicarage Farm Road stop - Osterley Ridgeway Road on the 91 was 6d, which became a "2 1/2 p half please mister" on decimalisation! I think Red Rovers for a child were 5 bob or 5 shillings/ 25 pence?
Saturday job...1971-2 £3 at Kett's [electrical shop] in Hounslow West..beat £2.40 at McFisheries Supermarket for a Saturday when I was 15 (1970).
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Post by Oracle on Apr 11, 2007 22:21:30 GMT
In 2005, £0 0s 2d from 1945 was worth:
£0.24 using the retail price index
£0.25 using the GDP deflator
£0.75 using average earnings
£0.84 using per capita GDP
£1.03 using the GDP By 1954 the then Conservative Government* allowed a tax-free and NI-free incentive to encourage workers, particularly office types, to have a hot lunchtime meal. The tax-free amount that an employer could pay was 3/- or 15 pence. Per day. Hence the LV Luncheon Vouchers were started. At that time reputedly despite rationing you could get a three-course meal, although I'll ask my Mum who was working in Victoria at the time (and a tube commuter). When I started work in June 1973 as an erk I was given five 15 p Luncheon Vouchers for each week. By then you used all five to get one sandwich! * I was sure that Labour introduced the 3 shilling allowance in 1949 but perhaps I was wrong. Around 1950 three bob was a lot of money anyway! |
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Post by frimm on Apr 11, 2007 23:28:57 GMT
A tanner! Wow that's a lot of money! Perhaps more for a cup to cover breakages and returns? A tanner bought you a packet of Rolos around 1960 or were they 4d? My bus fare, 3 miles from Hounslow West Vicarage Farm Road stop - Osterley Ridgeway Road on the 91 was 6d, which became a "2 1/2 p half please mister" on decimalisation! I think Red Rovers for a child were 5 bob or 5 shillings/ 25 pence? Saturday job...1971-2 £3 at Kett's [electrical shop] in Hounslow West..beat £2.40 at McFisheries Supermarket for a Saturday when I was 15 (1970). Well seeings we've well and truly hijacked this thread, hey look on the bright side it was day 10 and someones got the answer....... 1970 I left school and got a proper job, apprentice telephone engineer, starting on £6 18s a week wow! .... Actually a big mistake, I should have become an apprentice electrician on £4 a week (would have been better off now), or an apprentice LU signal engineer on about £6 a week (far more interesting  ) anyways I digress........... Things I remember from those days that are perhaps relevant to this forum, was travelling from Hornsey to Southgate to go to technical college..... The trip started with a W3 bus, one of those nasty single deck cattle trucks with the turnstile at the entrance, that had just a couple of years before replaced the dear old 233 which used RT's (I believe the route number 233 was reused in the west somewheres)..... fare from my house in Hornsey to Wood Green was a flat 6d, then Wood Green to Southgate was I think 1s 6d return, on the Picc. Nice silver 59's and if my memory serves me correctly, just the occasional 38 TS. And yes personally I preferred the 38's , far more style I used to also have to go to the GPO (yes this was before BT and when your telephone came courtesy of the Post Office) training school just off Old Street. Now that journey started with a trip on the nasty W3, this time in the other direction to Finsbury Park, thence the 3 year old and ultra modern Victoria line to Highbury & Islington, then the Moorgate Branch of the Northern Line to Old Street. One of the things that stuck in my mind from those days, was the convenience of leaping off the Victoria line, running across the platform, (ok through the gaps in the platform to the parallel Moorgate Branch) and leaping onto the Moorgate train, just before the doors closed (ok I was fitter in those days and could run). I seem to recall at most other places (as it still is) a line change consisted of a bit of a hike. The Victoria line itself was space age...... Trains with curved glass !! and this new fangled ATO thingy, that LU said was the way to go, and meant that a guard wouldn't be necessary really, and also we could do away with the driver cos it's so clever. I remember a bit of a stink over that one! and good to see it never happened. For me it's amazing to think that this is now the oldest deep level stock left, or maybe it's amazing to think I've survived so long, I'm not quite sure which When new the 67 stock was very innovative, and by chance I happened to be in London (I moved out over 25 years ago) on business the other month. I used the Victoria line, and frankly was less than impressed with the refurb (ok I know it was done some time ago). To me whilst it might be "clean and modern" , it's taken away the spirit of what that stock represented when it was introduced, but what do I know? I don't use it daily, and I'm an old fart anyways ;D Frimm |
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What a gem! Glad they didn't obliterate it. 
) anyways I digress...........
