decimal currency

Getting ready for Decimalisation THERE was a special meeting held in Loughborough to discuss the implications of the introduction of decimal currency in February, 1971.

1966: Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan said Britain would switch to decimal currency from 1971.

Charges on the original Severn Crossing have been in place since 1966, when the fee stood at two shillings and sixpence - the equivalent of 12.5p in decimal currency today.

Adverts and brochures were brought out to help explain how it would all work and Lord Fiske, Chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, even demonstrated how to insert the five new penny coin into a parking meter.

Despite the switch from imperial to decimal currency, there were clear social continuities in the imagery used for the pre-decimal Series 2 and first decimal Series 3 notes.

The first decimal coins were issued by the Decimal Currency Board in preparation for the change to full decimalisation on February 15, 1971.

With the folk of Britain getting to grips with decimal currency, and the Norther Ireland 'troubles' in the headlines, the Watergate affair in the United States was enough to bring down President Richard Nixon.

1966: Chancellor of the Exchequer James |Callaghan said Britain would switch to decimal currency from 1971.

It's not that we are incapable of change; I'm old enough to remember the switch over to decimal currency in 1971.

New novelist Bartlett has cleverly used a copper penny, from early monetary tender to current decimal currency to weave short stories over decades beginning in 1911 at the time of the new Australian federation until 1974 when Cyclone Tracy ravaged Darwin on Christmas Day.