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Wednesday 2 May 2012

The price of milk

"How much is a pint of milk?" seems to be a common question put to political figures etc. But do you know how much it was in 1936? This is a cutting from The Westmorland Gazette. George Goland Robinson was Henry's great uncle, farming at The Hagg in New Hutton. For those too young to remember pre 1971 we used pounds, shillings and pence, with 240 pence in the pound. Therefore 6d a quarter (3d a pint) equates to 1.25 pence a pint (£0.0125).


Henry's Grandma was an inveterate scrapbook keeper. She clipped and collected cuttings from the 1930's onwards. We have several books, with the pages full of scraps of newsprint. So watch out for more news from the past when there's nothing from the present to report.

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