Gas shillings

Just here perusing the site and a couple of memories came back.
Whenever I was sent to the shop as a young lad, I was allways told to ask if they had any gas shillings with my change. This stuck with me till decimalisation.
At the butchers Savoury Ducks, were pronounced Slavoury Ducks.
One Christmas I carried home the groceries in a box almost bigger than me, with Dr. Whites emblazened on the front.
Thanks Dad Happy memories.

Mr Shilling.

it was hard trying to get a shilling sometimes we used to file an halfpenny down and when the gas man came we said kids had done it i dont think he believed us

Aye the good old days...or were they.

Not for me they weren't.

i couldnt wait to get my rebate shillings back out of my meter it used to nearly buy me a bag of coal wow them were the days

I liked watching the gas man piling up the shilling pieces on our kitchen table.

it was like christmas when the gas man came

I used to stand watching him counting them, thinking he might just say "Here lad get some toffee" but he never did.

A lot of homes had a small jar or brass jug to keep the Gas Shillings in on the Mantelpiece. Also had meters for the Leccy as well.

and dont you just wish u could get gas for a shilling now

There's a saying: "thar'as fow as a gasmon's mac" when referring to someone not very good looking!

Can only say no oldis have read this thread a shilling they was penny meters before that

i remember my mum telling me when they used to put the old penny in , and one of her brothers put a hole in with some fine string through , so when the penny dropped, he would pull it out again .had to be carefull ,how many times he did this mind you .

after decimalisation came into force... it went up to 50p...

Tumtingle, We had the old penny metre up to moving from Garswood in 1948,

Just think about the poor old gasman walking around with all that weight.I think they used to have a supervisor at a collecting point on a [BSA Bantam] motorbike.

Molliem The way I heard it was "his face is longer than a gasman's mac"

We had no lectric just gas, and when gas went, me mam if we hadnt a shilling would send me knocking on everybodys door in the street have you got a shilling for the gas until i got one. they didnt like taking 12 pennies for a shilling some of um.

We used to have a gas fridge, I think the Gas tv was always on the blink tho. Well, it was on Sundays when Songs of Praisey type programmes were on, Dad used to say the TV needed a rest.

Did you ever try running with two bobs worth of pennies in your short pants pockets, that was a lot of copper for a little un with no snake belt.

Aaaaw poor little lad.

Surprised?

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. SHUT UP!!!!

What about putting 5p in the telly for an hour or 10p for 3 hours. xrh59 you have my sympathy not having a snake belt! I had a grey and red one!

We had one Jimmy, but we had to share it.

I'm inclined to ask............what is a "snake belt"?

It's like the old slidey icy thing all over again. Sorry I just can't think what it's called except I know it starts "mucky" lol!

Have a look at Dostafs 'surprised' link Lise, theres one on his turban.

'Mucky da da' or daddy, depends on were you live.

Mucky daddy! I wanted to say daddy but I weren't sure without making myself out to be a right fool!

I'm going for a look!

I've looked! I'm sure my brother had one of those on his Sunday school shorts.

pmsl!

tee hee!

Posted by: jeremyb (572)

Molliem The way I heard it was "his face is longer than a gasman's mac"

So sorry Jeremy. I've only just come back to this topic. No "as fow as a gasmon's mac" was because their macs were ugly and they favvered park flashers in 'em, plus they stunk o' gas as well!