price of chips from 1952 to 1963???

[joko]

hi
does anyone know how much a portion of chips cost in 1952 to 1963??

and also how it would be written out?


many thanks

joko

[shaneystar2]

Don't know specific prices for each year but as a child in the fifties we used to get four pennorth of chips which was written as 4d.But the d would be written just at the top of the 4 * where I have put the star as I don't know how to type it otherwise !There were various portions I seem to remember .two pennorth,four and six pennorth which was enough to feed a family.

[shaneystar2]

Pennorth should have been written Penn'orth ..sorry ..short for pennnys worth.Told you I can't type!

[chijiki]

In 1955 a portion of chips cost about four (old) pence written as 4d.
In 1963 they cost about one shilling written 1/- or 1s.

[joko]

thanks guys

any idea where i could find prices of other stuff like gravy, pies, peas, fish etc?

thanks

[shaneystar2]

http://www.sandgate-kent.org.uk/bryanevans.htm
These people reckon a piece of fish was
cod, plaice or huss, small 8d or large 10d with chips at 3d a portion.Making small cod and chips 11d or large one shilling and a penny .

[Narolines]

I remember Davis's, our local chippy where I lived in Birmingham as a kid in the 50s, as if it were yesterday; the smallest portion of chips was two penn' orth (2d), with the option of "threes" and "fours" if you were well off/exceptionally hungry. A piece of fish - usually cod, though there was often the option of haddock, hake or rock salmon (dogfish) - was, as shaney says, 8d or 10d. By the 60s the standard portion of chips was 6d (a "six", though you could still get "fours" if you were mean/skint) and a piece of fish a shilling (1/-) or one-and-threepence (1/3). These days, fish-and-chips twice at my local chippy comes to about ten quid! Very good, though......:-)

[Narolines]

chijiki, if you paid a bob for a portion of chips in 1963 you must have lived somewhere very affluent! In Birmingham (at least, in Saltley) they stayed at 6d until about 1964, rising quite quickly through 8d, 10d and finally a shilling in about 1971.