Letters to the Editor
Nov 04, 2020
3 minutes
Mark Hedges
Letter of the week
See a penny
I WELL remember ‘D-Day’ in February 1971 (‘The power of 10’, October 7). As a 13-year-old school boy, we were well versed and prepared for the change over to decimalisation—not so the owner of the newsagent opposite the school gates.
I remember his look of absolute confusion as we not only came away with a pocket full of penny sweets, but often with the same amount of money we went in with—some wags even boasted of
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