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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Ripley and Heanor News March 1905 cost one Halfpenny today it costs 161 times more. Advert for Home Brewery ALE Mild 1/= A Gallon Bitter 1/6d A Gallon Double Stout 1/4d A Gallon Taking the average 1/4d A Gallon =2d a pint Average now £2.00 a Pint =240 Times more. Forsale Ladies 9ct Keyless watch and 9ct Gold Chain Albert £2=10 shillings. Singing Bill Bailey at Midnight. George Prince who did not appear was fined 5/= and 10/6d costs for being drunk and disorderly.PC Bulpitt said defendents and others were singing Bill Bailey about the Streets and that he had received complaints that people could not sleep at 1-0 clock in the morning. So thats 15/6d thats 375 Halfpennies or Ripley and Heanors x161 gives an equivalent of £125-78p in todays cash.Today it would not get to court [/quote]
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This message was updated on 3/18/2005 1:17:37 PM by Peter Chamberlain

100 years ago in and around Heanor
replied on: 3/18/2005 1:16:01 PM

Ripley and Heanor News March 1905 cost one Halfpenny today it costs 161 times more.
Advert for Home Brewery ALE
Mild 1/= A Gallon
Bitter 1/6d A Gallon
Double Stout 1/4d A Gallon
Taking the average 1/4d A Gallon =2d a pint
Average now £2.00 a Pint =240 Times more.

Forsale
Ladies 9ct Keyless watch and 9ct Gold Chain Albert
£2=10 shillings.
Singing Bill Bailey at Midnight.
George Prince who did not appear was fined
5/= and 10/6d costs for being drunk and disorderly.PC Bulpitt said defendents and others were singing Bill Bailey about the
Streets and that he had received complaints that people could not sleep at 1-0 clock in
the morning.
So thats 15/6d thats 375 Halfpennies or Ripley and Heanors x161 gives an equivalent of £125-78p in todays cash.Today it would not get to court

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