English Old Currency
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Three years on from British decimalisation's 'D Day' in February 1971 and one village shop in Worcestershire is still holding on to the old ways. It's not a hundred pence to the pound at the butchers at Knightwick but twenty shillings. Apparently the new money is a "load of nonsense" as reporter Tony Maycock finds out. This yearning for 'the old money' might seem odd now but you can't help but sympathise with the customers told to forget a lifetime of counting in £sd.