Decimalisation (1970)

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Title	:	Decimalisation (1970)
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The random edits mid-sentence are frustrating
Comment from : Chris Ashby

prices went through the roof you got lied too absolute scam goodbuy life as you knew it
Comment from : 420pilz

The old 10p and 50p coins were very clunky and clumsy I remember 1997 when the big 50p coins went out The old 5p though was good, the one introduced in 1991 was too small They should get rid of the 2p coin and introduce a copper larger 5p coin
Comment from : nicholasr39

If we were to go back to that system I would have huge problems getting used to it like the old people back in 1971 getting used to decimal coins
Comment from : nicholasr39

I vaguely remember the change to decimal I was 4 years old at the time Vaguely remember people talking about "new pence"
Comment from : johnny b

Big con, caused inflation
Comment from : Alfred Royal

The pre-decimal money is easier to use especially when it comes to giving or receiving a change without the use of a calculator You only need to remember 20 and 12 There are 20 shillings in a pound and there are 12 pence in a shilling brIf the total amount bought costs £23 and the money given by the customer is £50, the change is £27 brIf the total amount bought costs £23/8/- and the money given by the customer is £50, the change is £26/12/- since there are 20 shillings in a pound brIf the total amount bought costs £23/8/5 and the money given by the customer is £50, the change is £26/11/7 since there are 12 pence in a shilling
Comment from : Antonio E Aquino

Well June 6, 1944 is "D-Day" for the "colonies"! :D
Comment from : John Smith

Now I understand Harry Potter money
Comment from : Shane Garst

Can't help but laugh when the Sainsbury store trainer refers to the cashier as "Miss" @ 242
Comment from : Bally1001

This talks about the sixpence disappearing, but I think they changed their mind and kept it in circulation until 1980, didn't they?
Comment from : M0jibake

Strange that the UK was one of the last countries to change Which country was the last? Does anyone know 🤔?
Comment from : Ann Oldham

I am a 58 year old adult and remember the change as a 7 year old child which I did not like and I still have not got over as I hanker for the pre decimal days
Comment from : Katrine-Estella Basso

I can feel their pain as an American people say oh it’s half a meter And it should be no duh cause it’s on the decimal system but I can’t place that in my mind near as well as half a yard
Comment from : N B

India has decimalized the currency and applied metric units for measurement in 1957 Before that English system and fractions was used in India It is very confusingbrI wonder how people those days understood things🤔
Comment from : Khandavilli Anirudh

I love how the primary school teacher is wearing a mini skirt You wouldn’t be allowed to get away with that even now
Comment from : Loren Wood

I wish Britain would bring £sd back Us software devs would have a field day
Comment from : DuncanMcA

Remember, those old people will be us when we inevitably switch to km/h from mph
Comment from : dog

I wonder if decimalisation necessary while penny could disappear due to inflationbrGood vintage video
Comment from : 梅家豪

You still hear some sayings or names of things that use pre decimal coins for context ie dodgy as a nine bob note, lend me a few bob, 2000 guineas race, there are others but I can't think of them atm
Comment from : Wizzard

Nicer and gentler days where there was far less bullshit
Comment from : MrZZooh

I believe it was mistake British coinage was so unique and pretty, be it farthing, half penny, penny, shilling, florin or half crown Not forgetting, of course, double florins, sovereigns, Maundy coinage etc
Comment from : FalconRS

I wonder if some British politicians opposed the decimalisation
Comment from : Dominik Pierzgalski

It's a pity the film and the audio track are so choppy
Comment from : Stefan Nikola

Happy D day!
Comment from : Lefty

Miss is a bit hot
Comment from : Dave Gibson

"I got confused with the halfpenny I had to think twice" brLol 😆
Comment from : Kasim Khan

One of the last countries to make the change but one of the first to start thinking about it All you need to know about Britain in one sentence
Comment from : Hannah Millington

It was a beautiful old movie until they showed the school
Comment from : Useless Photographer

All of a sudden everything cost 199, 299, 1099 Nothing ever cost 147, 239, or 1062 Prices did go up with the decimal switch I saw it with my own eyes
Comment from : Thomas Jones

£87,000,000 is £1,171,661,03316 in today’s money for anyone (me) wondering
Comment from : Jake

Pity they've never fully gone metric as well
Comment from : Stu Boyd

I was 13 and remember my dad getting into a big row with a Woolworth’s cashier because the cost of his “pick and mix” sweets was rounded up to the nearest new penny So embarrassing at that age!
Comment from : kipling1957

Not thinking but brainwashing!brBREXIT! 🇬🇧✌
Comment from : CitiZen

Probably with the Brexit the Brits will return to this system 🤣🤣
Comment from : MCA B

£187 ? Must have bought a box of matches!
Comment from : Gary David

In the 70's Carter tried to get us to change to the metric system and I remember taking classes in it in grammar school but it never stuck, although we still have many metric measured products like a 2 liter bottle of soda, and we say 2K run etc, although I bet 85 of Americans could not tell you how far a kilometer is
Comment from : MJ Esposito

if you can divide currency it will just burn the opposite way and devalue your property instead
Comment from : Arcade Alchemist

Decimation is what's hot now in the UK
Comment from : Ralph Macchiato

Sizes were rounded down and prices rounded up on change over, the good old shopkeepers
Comment from : Jim Cameron

It was all down hill from here
Comment from : Michael Mir

It seems so alien that we had such a weird system not that long ago, there are still people in the UK today who aren't that old who still convert from "new" to old when comparing prices
Comment from : Jon Johnson

It’s like watching a scene from Willy Wonka
Comment from : FootballJunkie

one day we had a price of £ 1/19 /11 become £199
Comment from : Ian Prince

Eamon Andrews, a real national treasure…from Ireland I was 10 when it changed probably the same age as those kids so they’ll be old as well The old tanner seemed to last for a while after decimalisation, but a month is a long time at 10
Comment from : Mark Harris

When almost everything increased in price due to rounding up £SP sorry day when it all went Wonderful coins Even in 2020 many people are unable to add up their shopping as they actually shop
Comment from : Stephen Williams

This was the year we lost our souls
Comment from : Mo John

Everything was brown Now it's grey
Comment from : Beechgoose 1

My life is empty in 2020 with a 1/2p coin being robbed from my life
Comment from : gordon Campbell

Can someone explain the presenter's accent? It's almost North American
Comment from : miikop

Inch feet gallons pound are even more stupid !!!
Comment from : JP CARETTA

The biggest inflationary rip off I'd ever seen Corporations took advantage of the unfamiliar currency to raise prices I was a child at the time but even I could see how a packet of Polos went from 6d to 25p and lost a third of it's length
Comment from : Colin Ashdown

And once they gave up the old system inflation went rampant, which I'm sure was the intent, although they wouldn't admit itbrInflation is a covert theft from the poor
Comment from : FDK

Just judging by the expressions on the children's faces in the classroom, they are now 50 years older Judging also by the teacher, it sounded like she loved the children she taught, including Alicia, Christopher & Gordon Eamonn Andrews narrated
Comment from : ROBERT CHARLES HAYNES

Came from Australia at this time and was used to using decimal currency, went into a shop in Brum to buy some cakes turned out 1/6 was 16 pence and the shop people stuck it out I was wrong
Comment from : Eric Johnson

I'm assuming this is Eamonn Andrews doing the interviewing? RIP
Comment from : Aero01

I wonder how many leave voters want our currency to go back
Comment from : Amy

I would sincerely love us to Revert to Pounds Shillings and Pence Post Brexit As a small child I resented this money change I would like it back!
Comment from : Isochest

I was a trainee manager in 1967 and I went on a decimal training course to I could explain decimalisation I still have my original first set in a plastic wallet
Comment from : Jeremy Travis

Eamonn Andrews should have presented a book to the old pennies and say This Is Your Life
Comment from : PsychoticTunes

Prices did go up with decimalisation I remember my mum saying that the weekly shop after decimalisation was more expensive
Comment from : MrDavey2010

I find the back and forth of you fine brits just fascinating regarding this currency
Comment from : Jeffrey Scanlon

5:46 That's how I used to like my shelves when I was a shelf-stacker I would of been proud of that display
Comment from : Chris Norris

like the teacher
Comment from : HISTRIA MAGNA

I must just say that the quality of this video is absolutely amazing for 50 years ago! (Subscribed) Regards
Comment from : GARY

Remember finding a ten bob note as kid felt like winning the lottery😎
Comment from : Steven Edwards

That presenter was Eamonn Andrews and he died back in 1987, he did a lot of TV goodness what a long time ago
Comment from : Alan Hunt

Good old Eamonn Andrews, from "This is your life"
Comment from : Barry Peal

My parents still say the price of everything went up and they ended up with less disposable income after decimalisation
Comment from : Ny Sun

I cannot believe the number of comments asking who was the narrator of this video Eamonn Andrews was the face/voice of my childhood and beyond He hosted 'Crackerjack', 'What's my Line', 'This is Your Life' and a TV programme that alternated with 'Crackerjack' every Friday He was rarely off our screens Not to mention that he also commentated on boxing bouts in the 1950s
Comment from : Steve

Glad the currency gone before I moved to the UK, too complicated for me Also I don't like the imperial units for measurements Nothing beats the decimal system
Comment from : I dontknow

Love it!!!
Comment from : Jeanie Chowdhury

Is that Eammon Andrews narrating?
Comment from : H Lambourne

That hot teacher is probably in her late 70s now
Comment from : Scott Whitley

I remember going into a fish and chip shop on Decimal Day and there being some argument between the man and woman who ran the shop as to how to convert the price of my fish and chips, which had been 1/9d (one shilling and ninepence) the day before into the new decimal price In the end, we reckoned it must be 14 and a half new pence, but we were probably wrong You certainly wouldn't get fish and chips for 14p today, nearly half a century later
Comment from : David Rayner

Half penny 🤢
Comment from : G

When cash register operators were required to be able to count!
Comment from : Hugo Stiglitz

I remember seeing a piece of archive footage from decimalisation day with an old woman saying "You'd have thought they might have waited until all the old folks had gone wouldn't you?"
Comment from : The Butler Did It

The Y2K of its time
Comment from : Spenser T

I loved the old half crowns - you felt comfortable with a couple of those in your pocket
Comment from : Too young to be old

I remember when my pocket money went from 6 pence to 2 1/2 pence, and it seemed unfair at the time even though I could still buy a Mars bar with it
Comment from : Philip Wells

Is that Eamonn Andrews narrating?
Comment from : Robert Harris-Lane

I’m just amazed they went to the time, effort and expense to fashion a tool to fit new buttons onto the old tills 😳
Comment from : Guybrush Threepwood