I'm so old I remember when .... Cost ...?

leecall4a

Petrol cost £1 a litre

Bue21

You aren’t old - I remember the angst when it was approaching £1 a gallon!

strawb_shortcake

I think it was around 77ppl when I started driving £1ppl sparked the blockades and subsequent fuel shortages. 

MDMD

Handy table here of petrol prices. I remember it being under 50p for years in the early 90s

http://www.speedlimit.org.uk/petrolprices.html

Rodders53

leecall4a said:

Petrol cost £1 a litre

I recall it was 15 shillings and 6 pence a GALLON at the Garage my Mum worked in (National Benzol) some time around the mid 60s.  Proper leaded petrol back then .

I pre-ordered and paid the full price for The Beatles Abbey Road album at 30 shillings and sixpence in 1969.  It was soon available for less in all the shops.

Pint of bitter was half a crown (2s and 6d) in the Lounge bar (2d cheaper in the Public) and that became 12.5 new pence in 1971.

Brie

Different country but I remember buying a chocolate bar for 10 cents or one of the really big bars for 25 cents.  So that's 6p for something that now costs about 80p and 15p for the ones that cost £2!!  And both size bars are smaller than they used to be!!

As for petrol at £1 a litre - all the fuss about how were they going to put that on the signs as there was only the option to go to 99p!!

pseudodox

I remember my Dad buying petrol at 5 shillings & 11d a gallon late 50s/early 60s.  I could be wrong but I think that is the equivalent in present currency of about 6.6p/litre.  WOW!  I am not just old but almost antique!

geordiejon

first gallon of petrol i bought was in 1976 and it was 34p

sarah1972

Moved away from the no spend freebies board x

Floss

strawb_shortcake said:

I think it was around 77ppl when I started driving £1ppl sparked the blockades and subsequent fuel shortages. 

The fuel shortages & blockades were in 2000, it didn't hit £1/l until after 2006, the first time I paid that was after moving to Blackpool.

annieb64

Was telling my grandson today that when I was 5 in 1960 I got 6d pocket money a week.Thruppence on Tuesday and thruppence on Friday. You could buy a single bar Milky Way or a vast amount of fruit salad chews with that.