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Decimal Day

... Decimal Day Present fsd stamps will remain valid for postage, for perhaps 18 months after Decimalisation Day February 15. 1971. The Post Office will decide on the exact time limit when the Government fixes the official decimal changeover period. This ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1970
Newspaper: Fulham Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 80 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BROMLEY PREPARES FOR DECIMAL DAY

... BROMLEY PREPARES FOR DECIMAL DAY AS a result of yesterday's transfer of administration of the transport subsidy from the Arts Council of Great Britain to the Greater London Arts Association, the New, Bromlev. announce changes in the scheme which enables ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1970
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

On decimal day the game is up

... On decimal day the game is up ON February 15 next year, the day when Britain goesdecimal. charges for games facilities operated by the G.L.C. are being raised, sometimes by asmuch as 100 Der cent. Higher wages and increases in other costs over the last ...

Published: Thursday 16 July 1970
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 257 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Spending

... money to help them get used to spending it in decimal currency ? The whole business sounds like a bad joke. D-Day means Decimal Day. Dotty Day. Not ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1970
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 57 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

D DAY-7 WEEKS TO GO Meet our new money

... D DAY-7 WEEKS TO GO Meet our new money On Monday, 15th February, D (for Decimal) Day, three decimal 'coppers' will join the money we are already using, and our new decimal currency system will have started. This is the first of a series of announcements ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1970
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 60 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Shelter is after those 'dead' coins

... throughout the country to collect as many of the 2.960 million of these coins before they are phased out of circulation after Decimal Day on February 15 next. Shelter wants to gather in a large number of the remaining f 18.500.000 worth of condemned coins. ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1970
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 97 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Will-power su

... emancipated. One thing is for certain: I'll never wear the atrocious midi. I think !—(Miss) G. I Dagenham, Essex, Spot on AS decimal day draws closer would it not be a good idea if the ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1970
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 104 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

A probe into

... Page One policy was to keep the sixpence only during t h e changeover period of about twelve months, which will follow Decimal Day on February 15 next year. The announcement was made in the Commons by Treasury Minister of State William Rodgers. But he ...

Published: Friday 20 February 1970
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 136 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

DAILY MIRROR COMMENT Dotty about decimals

... are asking for what amounts to worry money when Britain's currency goes decimal next February. BANK WORKERS want a Decimal- Day bonus for the strain of converting our money into New Pence. Their own words are that they will be in the front line ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1970
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Puzzle....how to break

... .. erry Ed, of 206 - • Road, Greenford, as a fancy dress winner Stanhope Junior hool fete on Saturday. He represented Decimal .. Day. With him is Green- ord's well-known Clown, o-10. ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1970
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 153 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

LABOUR 'HID POST PLAN'

... the offing. Last spring, the Labour Government were warned that if stamps at the new tariff were going to be ready by Decimal Day next February, printing would have to start soon. Mr. Chataway claimed. The order to print was given with the full knowledge ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1970
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 175 | Page: 4 | Tags: none