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[Varche]

My Dad claims to be the last person in Britain to buy cigs for a penny. He was evacuated to the Lake District at outbreak of WW2 and there was a machine on the platform at Bowness - empty. He put a penny in and pressed the buttons anyway and one gave him a packet.

Who knows. He also says Mars bars were the size of a battle cruiser and as a kid he used to find bottles and get the money back to pay for them.. I remember fish and chips at 9d (3d for chips and 6d for he fish). And in those days cod was white...........

Local Newsagent used to sell them to the school kids in the 1971, one at a time, can't remember how much though, can't have been much more than a penny or two or perhaps 1 new penny....

this would have been for a pack.

[Vamps]

My Dad claims to be the last person in Britain to buy cigs for a penny. He was evacuated to the Lake District at outbreak of WW2 and there was a machine on the platform at Bowness - empty. He put a penny in and pressed the buttons anyway and one gave him a packet.

Who knows. He also says Mars bars were the size of a battle cruiser and as a kid he used to find bottles and get the money back to pay for them.. I remember fish and chips at 9d (3d for chips and 6d for he fish). And in those days cod was white...........

Local Newsagent used to sell them to the school kids in the 1971, one at a time, can't remember how much though, can't have been much more than a penny or two or perhaps 1 new penny....

this would have been for a pack.

Nope, individual, but from a packet if that is what you mean.......

[Del Boy]

What a cracking video  .

[Lizzie_Zoom]

My Dad claims to be the last person in Britain to buy cigs for a penny. He was evacuated to the Lake District at outbreak of WW2 and there was a machine on the platform at Bowness - empty. He put a penny in and pressed the buttons anyway and one gave him a packet.

Who knows. He also says Mars bars were the size of a battle cruiser and as a kid he used to find bottles and get the money back to pay for them.. I remember fish and chips at 9d (3d for chips and 6d for he fish). And in those days cod was white...........

I can believe that as I know in 1968 I was selling packs of five Park Drive cigarettes for 10d, so going back 20 years+ when cigarettes were also sold loose, they would have been about 1d or 2d.

[cleggy]

My Dad claims to be the last person in Britain to buy cigs for a penny. He was evacuated to the Lake District at outbreak of WW2 and there was a machine on the platform at Bowness - empty. He put a penny in and pressed the buttons anyway and one gave him a packet.

Who knows. He also says Mars bars were the size of a battle cruiser and as a kid he used to find bottles and get the money back to pay for them.. I remember fish and chips at 9d (3d for chips and 6d for he fish). And in those days cod was white...........

Local Newsagent used to sell them to the school kids in the 1971, one at a time, can't remember how much though, can't have been much more than a penny or two or perhaps 1 new penny....

this would have been for a pack.

3/9 for 3

[Vamps]

My Dad claims to be the last person in Britain to buy cigs for a penny. He was evacuated to the Lake District at outbreak of WW2 and there was a machine on the platform at Bowness - empty. He put a penny in and pressed the buttons anyway and one gave him a packet.

Who knows. He also says Mars bars were the size of a battle cruiser and as a kid he used to find bottles and get the money back to pay for them.. I remember fish and chips at 9d (3d for chips and 6d for he fish). And in those days cod was white...........

Local Newsagent used to sell them to the school kids in the 1971, one at a time, can't remember how much though, can't have been much more than a penny or two or perhaps 1 new penny....

this would have been for a pack.

3/9 for 3

3 packs I presume.....

[Nickbat]

My school friend's father received shed-loads of luncheon vouchers he never used so, when we had a free period in the sixth form we would head off to the local Wimpy and gorge ourselves, paying with the vouchers and finishing off with a Sobranie Black Russian fag (bought singly from the baccy shop next door for a few pence). Those were the days!       

[cleggy]

My Dad claims to be the last person in Britain to buy cigs for a penny. He was evacuated to the Lake District at outbreak of WW2 and there was a machine on the platform at Bowness - empty. He put a penny in and pressed the buttons anyway and one gave him a packet.

Who knows. He also says Mars bars were the size of a battle cruiser and as a kid he used to find bottles and get the money back to pay for them.. I remember fish and chips at 9d (3d for chips and 6d for he fish). And in those days cod was white...........

Local Newsagent used to sell them to the school kids in the 1971, one at a time, can't remember how much though, can't have been much more than a penny or two or perhaps 1 new penny....

this would have been for a pack.

3/9 for 3

3 packs I presume.....

No, three to  a pack "anything for the weekend sir" from the barber

[phill osey]

Saw this the other day,  and seeing it again still makes me smile

Lee

[omega3000]

My school friend's father received shed-loads of luncheon vouchers he never used so, when we had a free period in the sixth form we would head off to the local Wimpy and gorge ourselves, paying with the vouchers and finishing off with a Sobranie Black Russian fag (bought singly from the baccy shop next door for a few pence). Those were the days!     

Sounds more lethal than a capstan full strength  I remember when you could by single fags as well .. what happened to kali , that stuff use to keep us up all night from the sugar rush 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

It was illegal to sell single cigarettes certainly from 1971 when new regulations were introduced that expected manufacturers to voluntary put health warnings on the side of cigarette packets that had to be in the form of 10s and 20s at least.  It was around this time I remember packs of 5s disappearing from our trade.

[omega3000]

It was illegal to sell single cigarettes certainly from 1971 when new regulations were introduced that expected manufacturers to voluntary put health warnings on the side of cigarette packets that had to be in the form of 10s and 20s at least.  It was around this time I remember packs of 5s disappearing from our trade.

Yes it was well known the shopkeepers were not supposed to sell single fags but some still did , he used to break open a pack of ten from under the counter