Calista
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Yep so a new penny is 2.4 old pennies, and 2.5 new ones is 6 old ones! I was there when all this new fangled metric stuff happened, as well as being at the incredible Wolves game.
Anyway, it didn't cost much to get in ...
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steve cooper
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Yes, April 1967That's very plausible, because it would be rare for photos to be taken outside the ground like that, and even rarer (in my experience) for people to be climbing over walls. The enormity of that game would explain both.
Edit: 1967 I believe. I'm in nit-picking mode this afternoon
Kneeza
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Yeah. Pedantry is very unbecoming
Leaving school in 1970 dropped me right in it too, but the good thing is, like you I guess, I can think simultaneously in £sd and £p, and also metric/Imperial.
More useful than it sounds.
Johhny Blue
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We’re the old Pennys really that heavy?
The Philosopher
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Makes you wonder what the “real” attendances were back then.
A fair few knocked off by turnstile guys putting a few £ in their pocket. A few “squeezes” where two got in for one, a few over the fence, under the gate…
And then, by the time the money got to the counting office, how much was skimmed off by the chairman to pay for player “bonuses” in reddies or indeed just into the chairman’s pocket?
Plus, the more people you declare, the more police etc. you have to pay for?
Where did the suitcases full of cash come from for the 80/90’s “bungs” - wasn’t drawn out if the bank was it!
Some of the photos from the old days where the stands were full were probably where the ground had huge numbers of actual people.
It’s the other way round now.
steve cooper
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Yes, and gates were opened at half time and you could just walk in
Grendel
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Its
I’m todays money it’s £15.56 so given it’s standing it’s not that dissimilar to now
Great picture. Yes the crow’s nest would be high up in that corner. Stood up there for years, can still see it all in my mind’s eye.
Looks like it was 4/6d (four shillings and sixpence) for an adult, which is 22p so it was well worth climbing over the wall to avoid paying
2/6d for kids = 12p.
I’m todays money it’s £15.56 so given it’s standing it’s not that dissimilar to now
Calista
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Although I've given you a like, your amount seemed too high, and having looked it up I think 4/6d in 1967 would be £4.47 now?
And for that you got Bill Glazier, Gibbo, Dave Clements and Bobby Gould...
Edit: and a win nearly every time!
Grendel
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Someone said 67 pence
£0.67 in 1967 → 2024 | UK Inflation Calculator
This inflation calculator uses the official UK consumer price index. An inflation rate of 5.63% per year means £0.67 in 1967 is worth £15.24 in 2024.
www.in2013dollars.com
Calista
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4/6d is 22.5pSomeone said 67 pence
£0.67 in 1967 → 2024 | UK Inflation Calculator
This inflation calculator uses the official UK consumer price index. An inflation rate of 5.63% per year means £0.67 in 1967 is worth £15.24 in 2024.
So you, PVA and Deleted member 9744 would all get in together for 67p
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The Philosopher
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So if a ticket was 22p and is now (say) £22, the transfer fee of £90000 we got for Gould that year would be £9m? Or is that not how old money worked?
Calista
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No, as explained above ticket which cost 4/6d in 1967 was 22.5p in the new currency, and that's less than £4.50 today after taking inflation into account. The £90,000 for Bobby Gould (1968) equates to about £1.75m now.
steve cooper
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I was broke in those days, no way I could afford the equivalent of £15
steve cooper
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I remember starting work at GEC in the early 60's, from memory my pay was about £5 per week.
Kneeza
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Calista
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It looks like the average manual wage in 1968 was £22/week, but the average top-flight player got £59/week (equates to about £1140 today). I imagine going to Arsenal Bobby Gould got more than that, and would have been delighted with maybe four times the wages of the man in the street. Now a typical Premier League player gets literally 100 times the pay of the average person, and it's still not enough for some of them or their agents.
We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling. Try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.
Houchens Head
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Luxury! Well, of course we had it tough! There were 39 of us living in a shoe box in the middle of t'road. We had a handful of hot gravel for breakfast and we had to pay the mill owner to allow us to work!
Houchens Head
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The Mercers Arms
steve cooper
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Hot gravel? you lucky devil. Ours was cold
Houchens Head
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It was cold by the time my turn in the queue reached me!
itsabuzzard
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Much heavier, actually. You'll get about 65 old pennies to a pound.
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SkyblueDad
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There were a few turnstiles where you could get in for a few bob to the turnstile operator clever thing was to use a different one each match as the old bill were on to it. Another one was to hang around the main stand and when the away coach turned up mingle in and walk in with the players worked all the time, even signed kids autograph books by the gates to look the part.
Johhny Blue
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That would be lighter?
itsabuzzard
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No. The original figure was 240 to a pound. If there's actually only 65 to a pound, they're heavier. Unless this Peroni's scrambling my grey matter.
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Theonlywayisskyblue
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Are none of you watching Happy Valley
itsabuzzard
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Johhny Blue
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I stand corrected. My eyes must have read 240 but my old brain registered 24
itsabuzzard
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No worries. What did your new brain register?
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Brylowes
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Good defensive effort there in the name of the last 44 years of neo-liberalism
epic fail obviously, but decent effort all the same.