On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:34:03 GMT, "James Silverton"
wrote:
> Martin wrote on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:09:21 +0100:
>
>>> James Silverton wrote:
>>>> S wrote on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:50:46 -0500:
>>>>
>>>>>> Pay toilets with coin-in-the-slot locks used to be common
>>>>>> in British railroad stations. I remember when I had a
>>>>>> summer job as a porter in a station and, as the junior
>>>>>> employee, I had to help empty the coin boxes. I resented
>>>>>> it of course since it took me away from collecting tips
>>>>>> :-) I have a feeling that somehow the payment was turned
>>>>>> into a civil rights issue and toilets don't charge now.
>>>>>>
>>>>> A number of UK stations have pay toilets, but rather than a
>>>>> coin box on each stall, you pay to enter the premises, so
>>>>> only one box to empty.
>>>>
>>>> Don't older British people still use the phrase "spend a
>>>> penny" to mean using the toilet? The coin boxes I remember
>>>> were operated by those great big British pennies.
>>>>
>>> My Mother still uses that phrase!
>>> The coin slot at the toilets at Inverness railway station
>>> takes 20pence - 4 shillings in old money.
>
>> The cost to use the public toilets in Whitby is 40p
>
>Interesting, based on the CPI, if the toilet cost 1 penny in 1960, the
>cost should now be 16 pennies. But 16 old pennies would be about 7
>current pence. You are being took!
Not really what is provided is far superior and clean, compared to what you
would have found in 1960. In 1960 the average salary was under GBP1K nowadays it
is around GBP24K. A pint of beer cost one shilling and is now far more than 40
shillings in most places.
--
Martin
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