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The move from the ancient system of £sd coinage to 100p to £1 was controversial, considered by some to be a sign of the UK's receding importance on the world stage and even as the beginning of the ...
Tucked away on a quiet street in Saltash, Cornwall, is a store unlike any other in Britain - a perfectly preserved corner shop frozen in the early 1970s, where shillings once jingled in customers' ...
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It was 45 years ago on Monday that decimalisation came in and the nation’s beloved pounds, shilling and pence were finally prised from the grasp of the British public. Shoppers and businessmen had ...
Sir, – In an age where every anniversary is an occasion for a celebration, a festival or a retrospective, no one seems yet to have picked up on the 50th anniversary of decimalisation, which took place ...
Tucked away on a quiet street in Saltash, Cornwall, is a store unlike any other in Britain - a perfectly preserved corner shop frozen in the early 1970s, where shillings once jingled in customers' ...