That would have been around 1972 and £10 then is the equivalent of £165 today, so it was a substantial amount. Dave Allen was a comedy genius and he's still funny today.
Trying to think what two cups of tea would cost then. 10 - 20p each? I earned £11 per week aged 15 from mid 1974 working with my bricklayer father. My sisters fiance was a mechanic who owned a beetle like that. This was very old, and he looked very young.
In a town, not in a city, a pint of beer was around 5p or less in 1970. Cigarettes about 20p. Mid 70's Cigarettes were 50p, beer 15p (50p in citys), bottle of scotch £6 - £7, records £1 - £1.50 (LP). It's difficult to work out 1970 because it's pre decimal. The late 70's where having 3 budgets a year so prices were fluid. You could fill your tank for £5 and have change. The drink drive limit was 3 pints.
@@colinbayley6764 Amazing to think of those prices, huh, but we were still converting mentally from shillings, so 4 shillings for the 20 cigarettes I used to shop for my dad pre 1974 I guess sounded normal. I paused at the window of a famous coin and stamp shop in London 4 days ago where they had recent Zambian 200 and 300 Trillion dollar notes (not sure if they were dollars but a familiar denomination).
I love this sketch & so glad you reacted to it! I was totally with you in terms of it being a lot of trouble for just £10, but I did the maths & in todays money, converting it to dollars, it would be like finding $75 under a wheel now. Just brilliant! Laughed my head off at the time at how this ends!
Does anyone know when this sketch was first broadcast? According to IMDB the first series of "Dave Allen at Large" was in 1971 and the last series was in 1979. According to the Bank of England Inflation Calculator £10 in 1971 was worth £122.80 in September 2024 and £10 in 1979 was worth £47.84 in September 2024. At the time of writing (12.11.24) the Bank of England Inflation Calculator stops at September 2024.
On Sunday 13th October 2024 Space X did it, a perfect 5th Launch of the Space X Starship & Super Heavy Booster! Then they did make history by catching the super heavy booster on the 1st try with the mega-zilla chopsticks. big sonic boom as it did so. The starship did a perfect orbit to the Indian Ocean and flew down to do a perfect soft water landing, with the space x filming water floats there in the landing water zone to see it. But for some odd reason the starship blew up after water full touch down? Still truly amazing event.
I remember a £10 could get like 5 fish & chips back then & 5 cans of coke or go out on a Fri nite to the pub,get sloshed,go to the chippy & still have change....that's the late 70's,mid 70's would be cheaper! Or in simple terms a month worth of shopping!
I suspect quite a lot of people have done this, but at a place I used to work in the town centre, my boss got an industrial-strength adhesive and glued a pound coin out front. Never got old watching people try to pick it up. It did eventually disappear though and that mystery was never solved.
I had never in my life seen anything larger than a fiver until a term life insurance policy paid out £80 when I turned 16 in 1974 (my parents had started the policy when I was born) and I was paid out in tenners by “the man from the Pru”. This note was a Series C design, issued between 1964 and 1975 (until 1964 no notes larger than £5 had been printed by the Bank of England since 1943 because of the German Operation Bernhard forgery operation).
Ten pounds was a lot back then what ya got for a tenna back then would be between 50 and 100 pounds today. A pint and a whisky you'd get change back from 1 pound then lol
In 1970 I could get 10 pints of beer for £1* (now about £4 in my local) at the students union and the bus fare from my late parents' house to the town centre was also 2 shillings (10p)*, now it's about £4 (with no price cap). So £10 then would be the equivalent to about £400 now. At the time, £1 was worth US $2.50 (in 1950 approx £1=$4). So £10 would have been equivalent to $25 at the time (or $1000 before devaluation); now about US$500. In 1972 my salary was £25 per week. in 1978 it was about £60 per week. In 1982 it was about £150 per week. We got monthly payrises because inflation was so bad. Inflation eh? Today's inflation is trivial. Just wait until that nice Mr Starmer and his friends get busy. *The actual prices were 1/3d but since modern people can't understand simple £sd (not being as clever as 1950s 5 year old children) I simplified it. The nickname for 2/6d (a half crown,an eighth of a £) was "half a dollar" in the1950s.
My first wage not long befor that was six pounds a week ,, It may have been twenty by the time this was done , So a good part of normal wage ,It was probably more than 20 dollars at that value in 1970 -
A tenner was a lot of money in the mid 70s.
I like to think the café owner put that ten quid note under the tyre to drum up custom.
That would have been around 1972 and £10 then is the equivalent of £165 today, so it was a substantial amount. Dave Allen was a comedy genius and he's still funny today.
£115
Around 1970 , when this was originally on , £10 was 2 weeks wages for some people.
Trying to think what two cups of tea would cost then. 10 - 20p each? I earned £11 per week aged 15 from mid 1974 working with my bricklayer father. My sisters fiance was a mechanic who owned a beetle like that. This was very old, and he looked very young.
In a town, not in a city, a pint of beer was around 5p or less in 1970. Cigarettes about 20p. Mid 70's Cigarettes were 50p, beer 15p (50p in citys), bottle of scotch £6 - £7, records £1 - £1.50 (LP). It's difficult to work out 1970 because it's pre decimal. The late 70's where having 3 budgets a year so prices were fluid. You could fill your tank for £5 and have change. The drink drive limit was 3 pints.
@@colinbayley6764 Amazing to think of those prices, huh, but we were still converting mentally from shillings, so 4 shillings for the 20 cigarettes I used to shop for my dad pre 1974 I guess sounded normal.
I paused at the window of a famous coin and stamp shop in London 4 days ago where they had recent Zambian 200 and 300 Trillion dollar notes (not sure if they were dollars but a familiar denomination).
An absolute classic.
A brilliant all round comic
Cannot beat Dave, so pleased you are still reacting to comedy.
The scene was filmed at Ruislip High Street, Ruislip, West London, UK.
£10 then in the early 70s is the equivalent of about £150 in today’s money 😂😂
Ah...the late great Dave Allen RIP....classic...thanks for sharing this with us all...E...😊😊😊
Its paper. Can't pull it. 😂😂
Classic Dave Allen sketch.
Dave Allen Legend Of Comedy
Brilliant, Dave and you!
I love this sketch & so glad you reacted to it! I was totally with you in terms of it being a lot of trouble for just £10, but I did the maths & in todays money, converting it to dollars, it would be like finding $75 under a wheel now. Just brilliant! Laughed my head off at the time at how this ends!
I remember this when it first aired. I believe it was 1976. Yea, I'm getting on now 😢😂
Back when a tenner was a lot of money!
Didn’t see that coming at all!😂 Loved Dave back in the day. (Probably the equivalent of £100 today)
Seen his a few times - was waiting for your reaction when everyone in the cafe rushed out at the same time. You didn’t disappoint 😉
Does anyone know when this sketch was first broadcast? According to IMDB the first series of "Dave Allen at Large" was in 1971 and the last series was in 1979. According to the Bank of England Inflation Calculator £10 in 1971 was worth £122.80 in September 2024 and £10 in 1979 was worth £47.84 in September 2024. At the time of writing (12.11.24) the Bank of England Inflation Calculator stops at September 2024.
That's worth about £100 in today's money.
And the rest
About £130 now.
@@Steve-gc5nt what year was the sketch recorded, I went for 1975
@@philjones45 I think it was 76
I think this was around 1976 so it would be about £70 today.
£10 back in those days would be like seeing a £50 note today! With Halloween soon upon us - try the Ghost Story!
On Sunday 13th October 2024 Space X did it, a perfect 5th Launch of the Space X Starship & Super Heavy Booster!
Then they did make history by catching the super heavy booster on the 1st try with the mega-zilla chopsticks. big sonic boom as it did so.
The starship did a perfect orbit to the Indian Ocean and flew down to do a perfect soft water landing,
with the space x filming water floats there in the landing water zone to see it.
But for some odd reason the starship blew up after water full touch down?
Still truly amazing event.
I remember a £10 could get like 5 fish & chips back then & 5 cans of coke or go out on a Fri nite to the pub,get sloshed,go to the chippy & still have change....that's the late 70's,mid 70's would be cheaper! Or in simple terms a month worth of shopping!
Dave Allan 2 funeral shetch is very funny to
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Have you seen rikki fulton 'Reverend I.M.Jolly?'
We love to laugh along with you alan. 😂😂
That was the price of a good hotel room for one night back then.
I suspect quite a lot of people have done this, but at a place I used to work in the town centre, my boss got an industrial-strength adhesive and glued a pound coin out front. Never got old watching people try to pick it up. It did eventually disappear though and that mystery was never solved.
Bloody hell the old 1980’s £10 note.
I remember them.
1970's
You're a mere youngster, I can still remember a 10/- note from the 1960s!!
One of my faves! 😂
My Dad was on about £40 a week in the early 70s.
£10 was almost a weeks wage.😂😂🇬🇧❤
The Average Wage for a Man in 1972 was £35. I’d of Waited!✌🏻🏴😬
Like to think the cafe owner was in on it to entice more customers 😅
When you would regularly see a tenner floating down the street
I had never in my life seen anything larger than a fiver until a term life insurance policy paid out £80 when I turned 16 in 1974 (my parents had started the policy when I was born) and I was paid out in tenners by “the man from the Pru”. This note was a Series C design, issued between 1964 and 1975 (until 1964 no notes larger than £5 had been printed by the Bank of England since 1943 because of the German Operation Bernhard forgery operation).
Ten pounds was a lot back then what ya got for a tenna back then would be between 50 and 100 pounds today. A pint and a whisky you'd get change back from 1 pound then lol
My dad used to pay my mum £15 a week maintenance and we lived on it.
they all had the same idea classic
I love this one, never suggested it though
Possibly 'the' perfect sketch. I wonder who wrote it. Anyone know?? Maybe Peter Vincent?
I thought the end was going to be that the cafe had glued it there to bring in custom, but this was funny nonetheless the less.
In 1970 I could get 10 pints of beer for £1* (now about £4 in my local) at the students union and the bus fare from my late parents' house to the town centre was also 2 shillings (10p)*, now it's about £4 (with no price cap). So £10 then would be the equivalent to about £400 now. At the time, £1 was worth US $2.50 (in 1950 approx £1=$4). So £10 would have been equivalent to $25 at the time (or $1000 before devaluation); now about US$500.
In 1972 my salary was £25 per week. in 1978 it was about £60 per week. In 1982 it was about £150 per week. We got monthly payrises because inflation was so bad. Inflation eh? Today's inflation is trivial. Just wait until that nice Mr Starmer and his friends get busy.
*The actual prices were 1/3d but since modern people can't understand simple £sd (not being as clever as 1950s 5 year old children) I simplified it. The nickname for 2/6d (a half crown,an eighth of a £) was "half a dollar" in the1950s.
Alan, if a child in the 70s found a tenner, that would be more sweets than you could carry.
My first wage not long befor that was six pounds a week ,, It may have been twenty by the time this was done , So a good part of normal wage ,It was probably more than 20 dollars at that value in 1970 -
Come on son you can make it. Life can be a c**t sometimes. Luv yer. 👍💯❤🙏
£10 then would be about £60 now
£10 was worth something back then .
What would $20 buy you in 1970 ?
That was £10 in 1970.
In those days £10 was a lot of money ,your over thinking things again alan.we don't want another hardnuts still game incident. It is what it is..
You’re a great reactor, but maybe don’t be so logical and realistic, just roll with the humours madness. 🤣
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yeah, nearly all Americans do this, King Boomer IS THE WORST.
Deconstructing jokes.
Must be an American thing.