I feel slightly sick even looking at it.
S-Level Maths.
What was I thinking?

1953...............

F J Urry. He did actually exist.I looked him up

1982.....................

1953 One of the first aerosols, and all that for 27½p................

1913................ A No. 1 Dunlop tyre for 14/- (fourteen shillings) - that's 70p in today's money , equivalent to about £85
There's also the inner tube, of course, which would set you back 30p

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PS I'm fond of Toffee Crisp, if you've got any going spare.

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If you haven't got any of that - do you know where I can get some minge?

1981...............

1953.................. I remember most people giving their dogs a Bob Martin tablet once a day

Our first experience of exotic meals:

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1953.................. I remember most people giving their dogs a Bob Martin tablet once a day

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"She's one of my best customers.A box of dog biscuits and a Bob Martins every Friday"

Who said that then?I'm asking everyone.

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Now that's interesting, because I was working for Heinz, as a rep, when they launched their answer to "V", which is what the powers that be amusingly called the "enemy", as they would not use the word Vesta at that launch, which we all thought was silly as we all knew what they were referring to.

Vesta had the market for freeze dried food pretty much to themselves in the early 60s, then Heinz bought out a small Irish company that specialised in freeze dried, but only marketed peas to mostly the catering trade.

And so it was, in 1969 that the entire (!) Heinz sales force descended on a London hotel to witness the "secret" launch of (fanfare) Heinz Packet Meals

None of us were that impressed with the food - it was just OK, and I wonder now what the hotel staff, who I presume prepared same, made of it. Mind you, I was never a fan of Vesta anyway.

Vesta is still going today, and Heinz Packet Meals have dissolved into the mists of time. Nuff said

1953......... Ahh, the soft as a baby's bottom toilet tissue, that was more like greaseproof paper - 1/2d (one and two, or one shilling and tuppence) About 6p in today's money

I remember that arse wipe in the school bogs.
It didn't clean up, it just smeared the shite up your back

1913..........

That's 67½p for a pair of shoes!! Oooh, and I like the bow