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[Davegase]

I thought it was fairly obvious i was showing the 1970 list so we could discuss the prices and different drinks on sale back then obviously not.

I remember paying 25 pence for a pint of bitter when I started going into pubs in 1975.
Those little price lists were on the wall at the end of every bar in those days.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Displaying bar prices was normal back in the day. When did that stop being the case? Or is it just my eyesight beginning to fail

People want more variety than just a choice between "bitter", "mild", "gin" and "whisky", so about ?15 years ago the rules were tweaked so that they no longer had to display a pricelist of everything they sold, just prices of a representative selection.

I suspect it's also tied up a bit with the move to electronic tills, which don't always make it easy to just dump a pricelist of what's currently on sale, whereas in the old days the publican would maintain something more basic that was easier to print off.

 

[Stu]

If my memory serves me correctly it was the £2 coin which was issued around the late 1990’s when beer in my Local in London was about £2 a pint.

The £2 coin did indeed rock up in 1998. But by then, beer was definitely much more than £2 a pint in and around Slough/Windsor where I lived.

The £1 coin was introduced in 1983 - my folks always referred to them as beer tokens.

 

[Stu]

I remember paying 25 pence for a pint of bitter when I started going into pubs in 1975.
Those little price lists were on the wall at the end of every bar in those days.

By law, they should still be.

It's very rare that I see them.

 

[Clint]

For me beer tokens are £10 notes and above as you can't get many beers for a fiver,unless I can group a few together then they fall into beer token allowance.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Back in the day a beer token was probably a £1 note.

A picture for our younger members

 

[Davegase]

Back in the day a beer token was probably a £1 note.

A picture for our younger members

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Never used one of these to buy a pint, I was still at school in 1970.
You could of bought a couple of pints and got change

 

[Mash Monster]

A quick Google search of the Royal Mint web site shows nicknames for past and present coins.
To my surprise the £2 coin is in fact referred to as a ‘Beer token’ !

 

[RichardM]

Never used one of these to buy a pint, I was still at school in 1970.
You could of bought a couple of pints and got changeView attachment 107977

In the mid 70s a week's school dinner money got three pints of bitter and 10 No. 6

 

[Davegase]

In the mid 70s a week's school dinner money got three pints of bitter and 10 No. 6

Did your mum know that's what you spent it on

 

[RichardM]

Did your mum know that's what you spent it on

She didn't let on if she did.

 

[Stu]

£1 coin would definitely have bought you a pint in 1983....

from the UK Government's notes.......

"In 1983, the average price of a pint of beer in the UK was 67 pence. In May 1983, a pint of draught bitter cost 64 pence, and a pint of draught lager cost 72 pence.

One person recalled seeing someone pay £1 for a pint of Guinness in a local pub in 1983, which was the first time they had ever seen a £1 coin"

And in 1998 when the £2 coin was introduced....

"The average price of a pint of draught bitter in 1998 was 169 pence, according to the Office for National Statistics."

So both could arguably be a beer token.

Back in the day a beer token was probably a £1 note.

A picture for our younger members

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Absolutely. It was withdrawn in 1988.

"The average price of a pint of draught lager in 1988 was 99 pence, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS)."

 

[Clint]

I can vaguely remember paying 62p for a pint in the early 80s while avoiding the old man.