Things that time forgot.

[teamsaint]

And threepenny-bits.

ten bob notes.

[Tony Halstead]

1) Meccano
2) Bayko
3) Hornby Dublo

[Padraig]

Alma Cogan
Lita Roza
Joan Regan

[Tony Halstead]

Gibbs' Bookshop, Manchester
Rare Records, St Ann's Square, Manchester
The Avgarde Gallery, Brazennose Street, Manchester
where I used to work on weekends, aged about 17, and was paid ( by my choice) in LPs rather than cash

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And threepenny-bits.

I thought they were coming back - different name but similar shape and value.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Gibbs' Bookshop, Manchester
Rare Records, St Ann's Square, Manchester
The Avgarde Gallery, Brazennose Street, Manchester
where I used to work on weekends, aged about 17, and was paid ( by my choice) in LPs rather than cash

You told me it was because it caused tax difficulties for Dennis Baxter.

[EdgeleyRob]

Gibbs' Bookshop, Manchester
Rare Records, St Ann's Square, Manchester
The Avgarde Gallery, Brazennose Street, Manchester

Oh yes,those were the days !

[Roslynmuse]

[QUOTE=Tony;535319]Gibbs' Bookshop, Manchester
QUOTE]

I went there on my first visit to Manchester in 1984 and probably visited almost weekly once I became resident in the city in 1987. I well remember the shock of the closing down sale in ?2003. By that point I wasn't able to get in more than about once a month, maybe more, and so I had no idea that it was going to fold. A real family firm.

[mangerton]

Florins!

I'll raise your two-bob bits and suggest halfcrowns.

What a great thread this is! It brings back so many memories. As I said above, not all good, but the vast majority are.

[EdgeleyRob]

I went there on my first visit to Manchester in 1984 and probably visited almost weekly once I became resident in the city in 1987. I well remember the shock of the closing down sale in ?2003. By that point I wasn't able to get in more than about once a month, maybe more, and so I had no idea that it was going to fold. A real family firm.

Yes Ros,Gibbs was a lunchtime haven for me when I worked in the city centre (early/mid 80's).
Many a forumite's path must have crossed in there over the years.

[LeMartinPecheur]

1) Meccano
2) Bayko
3) Hornby Dublo

Hornby Dublo 3-rail of course

[mangerton]

There are still prep schools that insist on that, if you pay enough money.

(Short trousers). There were senior boys' schools in Edinburgh in the 60s where shorts were worn by all pupils. Fortunately I went to one which was rather more enlightened, in that respect at least.

On a related note, "pupils". It would appear now that all school children, regardless of age, are "students". Who started that nonsense?

[Tony Halstead]

I am pleased to see that Gibb's still survives/ exists on the web:

http://www.gibbsbookshop.co.uk/osc/eshop/

but only as a book or antiquarian book specialist.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Floppy 7" 45rpm discs that came in the post (Readers Digest samplers?)

[Tony Halstead]

Hornby Dublo 3-rail of course

Yes of course, the 3-rail version was what I had in the period 1953-1960 plus maybe a few years....