Afternoon All......

[Jim R]

Welcome Paul to the best modelling forum on the 'net.
Jim

[boatman]

Never mind Woolworths......what's 2bob?........welcome Paul hope you can stand this place....and most of us are old gits so you'll fit right in!

Rick 2 bob IS NOW 10 new pence as in our pound we use to have 240 pennies to our pound when we decimaliced in 1971 our pound went down to 100 pennises in the pound as my dad used to say what happened to the other 140 pennyies so our money was more than cut in half as i remember if i was lucky enough to be given a red 10 bob note i could near clear out a sweet shop on one counter but that dint happen often an Rick im a young ole git lol
chris

[scottie3158]

Paul,
Welcome aboard mate you must be a good egg, all us Paul's are lol

[stillp]

PaulRick, two bob was two old shillings, which were 12 pence each. That was in the days when there were 240 pennies to a pound, and 2.4 dollars to the pound, so our pennies had the same theoretical value as your cent.
Pete

[Tim Marlow]

Now you know what two Bob is, what are two bits Paul?

[Mini Me]

Thank you for the explanations never did know there was 240 pennies to the pound but how did 12 pennies come to be known as bob? I understand how we ended up with bits as a Spanish dollar which was coin of the "Realm" back in colonial days was divided into eight bits.....I'm sure you have all heard the term "Pieces of Eight"........so 2 bits is 1/4 or a quarter....4 bits is a 1/2 or half a dollar etc.
Rick H.

[Mark1]

Who knows,Bobs and tanners were before my time.funny language back then ,I mean,people used to use their plates of meat to take a bowl of chalk down the apples and pears with their brass bands in their sky rockets.....guvnor.

[adt70hk]

Welcome aboard the madness express!!!

I'm sadly too young to remember such purchases at Woolies .....albeit I was born pre-decimalisation..... Just!!:sad:

Looking forward to seeing your work.

All the best.

Andrew

[stillp]

I don't know why a shilling was called a 'bob'. "Half a dollar" in the UK meant 2/6d (two shillings and sixpence) but I don't remember anyone calling five shillings a dollar. There was a five shilling coin at one time, officially called a 'crown', but in my lifetime they were only issued as commemorative coins. A sixpence coin was sometimes called a 'tanner', and a threepenny (pronounced thruppenny) bit was called a 'joey' when it was a small silver coin, but I only knew the brassy coloured ones, that had twelve sides, so you could use a spanner to get them out of a Scotsman's hand!
Life seems so much simpler with decimal currency!
Pete

[AlanG]

Ahem.... OP topic please

[Mini Me]

Amen to that Peter!

[Mini Me]

Sorry Alan.....Our posts must have crossed.

[Gern]

Two bob! Ye Gods, that was a b****y fortune when I started buying kits!

My local Post Office (Yes. We had them back in the day) used to have a big box full of cheapo plastic toys imported from somewhere exotic. Amongst the treasures was a set of four WWI aircraft, which included a Sopwith Camel, an SE5A and a Fokker Triplane. I can't remember what the other one was, but it was over 60 years ago so that's my excuse! They were probably around 1/144 scale, although the word scale meant nothing to me back then. They were 6d (d was the old shorthand for penny from the Latin denarius = small silver coin - look at the rubbish I keep in my brain!) each (In today's money that's 2 1/2 p). so I could have bought the whole set for two bob!

PS By the time my pocket money had got high enough to afford the luxury of model kits, Series 1 Airfix kits were 2/6 each (12 1/2 p in today's money).

[Airborne01]

Greetings Paul and welcome! You must have friends in high places as it was a midwife delivered sprogs when I was younger, - not Royal Mail!
Steve

[Allen Dewire]

And a big welcome from Bamberg Germany Paul...Hope you do enjoy your time with us and post up some pics of your work. Oh, and don't mind the Alzheimers club above. They're really a good bunch too, if they remember............

Prost
Allen