Anderson 1936 catalogue

[English Bloke]

For anyone who is interested, the Diced Hose, advertised for sale at nineteen shillings and sixpence (£0 19'/6d) loosely equates to 97p which is roughly US$1.50 at today's exchange.

Don't all rush at once.

Britain decimalised in 1971. Prior to this the currency units were Pounds (£) Shillings (') and Pence (d), and structured as:
£1 = 20' and 1' = 12d (or 240d to £1). At decimalisation the shilling was made obsolete and Pounds and Pence (New Pence) were adopted based on a power of 10.

Conversion rates for the process still apply because it was a snap shot in time and although prices and earnings have gone up, the monetary units have not changed.

5 New Pence (5p)


was worth 1'

(or 12 old Pence and initially was the same size coin and both were interchangeable.)

1 New Pence (1p)


was worth 2.4d (2.5 give or take) so sixpence (6d) was worth about 2.5p. There is no 0.5p now, it was phased out in 1984 so best to round down.

So 19'/6d =
19x5=95 + 2.5 (-0.5 for the round down) = 97p...

With which you could buy a nice pair of Diced Hose... or a tank of fuel for your car, which makes the Hose, in the UK at least, about the same in real terms as they are now. (at current UK fuel and diced sock prices).

Fab catalogue by the way... thanks for posting that.

Now then!! Of course times were harder then...

... "Well we 'ad it tough. We used have t' get up out o't' shoebox in't middle o't' night, and LICK road clean wit' tongues. We had half 'andful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at t' mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife."...

"you try and tell that t' young people o' today ... and they won't believe ya'.



Anyone who has proper knowledge to the contrary and wishes to refute the above findings, or my pronunciation of the word shilling, do please feel free to do so.