The Humble Kitchen Radio

[teamsaint]

my very first radio looked something like this.
Although it wasn't Russian,unlike this one, my Granny, who bought it for me, didn't really hold with buying Russian stuff, I imagine.

[teamsaint]

I think not!

I lived in a market street in the east end and I mastered our glorious money system and then they went and changed it to something foreign!!!

Eleven pounds and five shillings is what the total is. Thus £11.5s or in new money £11.25. Work it out yourself!

I know I'm right!

see, that is the trouble with London....it should cost £11 and 2.5 NP, but they try to sting you for and extra 4/6.

Shocking.

oh the correct calculation:

10 guineas is £10 and 10 shillings.
half a guinea is 10/6

total £11 and 6 (old)pence,as Mangers says, £11.025

[Don Petter]

Not so simple for you lot! Otherwise you'd get it right!

We have got it right!

One guinea = £1-1s
Ten guineas = £10-10s
A half guinea = 10s-6d

Ergo ten and a half guineas = £11-0s-6d, or £11 + £(6/240), or or £11 + £(1/40), or £11.025 in new money, as mangerton rightly said.

[Beef Oven!]

see, that is the trouble with London....it should cost £11 and 2.5 NP, but they try to sting you for and extra 4/6.

Shocking.

£11.0.6 !!?? In old money. Some might argue it's £11.0.5. It didn't correlate perfectly.

[Beef Oven!]

We have got it right!

One guinea = £1-1s
Ten guineas = £10-10s
A half guinea = 10s-6d

Ergo ten and a half guineas = £11-0s-6d, or £11 + £(6/240), or or £11 + £(1/40), or £11.025 in new money, as mangerton rightly said.

Rubbish! £11.025 is nonsense in new money, or old. You will never see a price written like that. Take the pound sign away and the arithmetic is ok. That's all.

Yer wrong, don.

[cloughie]

my very first radio looked something like this.
Although it wasn't Russian,unlike this one, my Granny, who bought it for me, didn't really hold with buying Russian stuff, I imagine.

A tranny from Granny then! Actually our first portable was one Dad put together from Heathkit - anyone remember the company?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HN.608025575429964859&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0

[teamsaint]

Rubbish! £11.025 is nonsense in new money, or old. You will never see a price written like that. Take the pound sign away and the arithmetic is ok. That's all.

Yer wrong, don.

here is a price, from a purchase order, placed by one of our countries major heritage attractions.
Its the new money, BTW Beefy.

ROMAN BRITAIN £2.745

[Beef Oven!]

here is a price, from a purchase order, placed by one of our countries major heritage attractions.
Its the new money, BTW Beefy.

ROMAN BRITAIN £2.745

Look, I started this thread, so I'm allowed a shilling's leeway, plus or minus, AND I get to choose how prices are written.

[cloughie]

Look, I started this thread, so I'm allowed a shilling's leeway, plus or minus, AND I get to choose how prices are written.

GBPs seems to becoming more common parlance - it was probably better when LSD was around.

[Beef Oven!]

[Beef Oven!]

GBPs seems to becoming more common parlance - it was probably better when LSD was around.

At least it's not a Euro.

[Bryn]

+++

= £11.025

[cloughie]

Have you chosen your radio or just your coffee mate?

By the way Beefy - the Jack Bruce programme is about to start on BBC4.

[Beef Oven!]

= £11.025

Lol!!

You are a wasted talent!!

[Beef Oven!]

£11.02.5 actually