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Ooops, just realised Paul said 1794 not 1974! Are you sure Paul it said £2.10d or was it 2 shillings and 10d (2/10d) That is the way we used to write it isn't it, so long ago I have forgotten now!

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Hey Paul Less of the OLD it was only yesterday it was changed to p from d----lol ---1971 it was changed wasnt it??

On how much old money worth today site this is what is says for 2005, £180000 0s 0d from 1915 was worth: £9,606,840.39 using the retail price index £13,678,695.65 using the GDP deflator £51,745,706.31 using average earnings £57,641,542.82 using per capita GDP £74,898,532.19 using the GDP hope that helps

I was trying to remember what I was earning in 1974 - can't remember, but somewhere buried deep in my house, there is an exercise book which I started writing in when I rented my first house, it has my weekly budget in and should make interesting reading when I find it. I know in 1969 I rented some rooms in Cambridge, sharing bathroom and kitchen with two other girls, and the rent was £3.17.6d a week! The amount has always stuck in my mind. The house is still there, a big terraced one in Glisson road, and I had two rooms in the roof, one with a dormer window at the back and the front room had a skylight, so if I needed air I had to stand on a chair to open it! Liz

yep still got a couple of those,10 Bobs, and fivers-- Victorian Silver half crowns were a work of art...........not like the drab cupro nickel stuff we use these days

Anybody remember the 10 shilling note - used to be brown. I used to get really excited on birthdays and Christmas as I always had one of those from my Grandma. Also remember half a crown - 2 of those paid for school dinners for the week! PP xx

Thanks, Janice, why didn't I think of that ??!! Pity the £7m didn't find it's way down the illegitimate line !!

Jayvee, Do £180 then and multiply your answer by 1000!

I've tried both those 'conversion' sites but they don't seem to work for larger amounts. An ancestor of mine left £180,000 in 1915 and I'd love to know what that would be worth today !

When i left school in 1959 my first weeks wages for a 44 hour week was £2. 14s. 6d. ( £2 .73P) new money. Alan

Im not that Blinking old am I:-)) But I do remember the old currency,so maybe I am!lol

Paul Those were the days you could legally have LSD in your pocket LOL Pat

A little erudition D was short for denarius, an old roman coin. The pound sign is actually a fancy L from Librus the old word for pound. Anne

Before decimal coinage it was pounds shillings and pence so it should have read £2.0s.10d

Paul, there are NO old persons on here!!!!!! We are all young at heart LOL Jay

Paul Try this site, it only goes back to 1830 but will give you an idea www(.)measuringworth(.)com/calculators/ukcompare/ Remove ( ) Keith

I use this for converting http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/results2.asp#mid In 1790, £2 0s 10d would have the same spending worth of today's £114.39

How ruddy confusing... :-p He earnt this in 1794, so I don't know what that would be nowadays.

No, £2.04p. Angela