How much is a drink?

[davedpc]

Years ago a drink used to be 5 bob. With inflation I think it should be £5 quid. What do other formers consider 'a drink'? Dave.

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[Dave_Snelson]

Not sure...but the other day some dodgy geezer approached me and said "if you hide these hooky tellies in your shed, there will be a drink in it for you"...

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[ashanta]

5 bob is equivalent to 25p today. Before decimalisation and when I was a boy of 15years (50 now) a pint in my home town (Warrington, was a brewery town then) cost 10d for mild and 11d for bitter and they charged an extra 1d if you drank in the "best side".
That means in 1968/9 it cost the equivalent of 4.5 to 5p a pint. I dont think that £2.10 to £2.50 a pint is cheap today. Petrol is the equivalent to £1.45 a pint and it I would think there is more cost involved in producing refined fuel than brewing beer?? Still there both exposed to high taxation. Not that I drink petrol!!!

Regards.

Peter.

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[Roy]

Actually Peter, Petrol is about 50p a pint or nearly £4.00 a gallon whereas beer is £2.50 a pint and £20 a gallon. Inflation x time passed is amazing really. In '66 I earned £6.00 a week as a young naval cadet and a house cost £2000 new (a good house). My rail fare from London to Aberdeen incl sleeper car was 105 shillings return - about £5.25. Top rate of tax was 95% as opposed to 40% today and a gallon of petrol was around 20pence - not sure on this but thereabouts. Like me you may remember some of these old prices?? Roy

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