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"Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkney)" wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
Beer reached 2/- a pint around 1969, in London at least. So you could
get 1/8 of a pint for 3d. £1.50 should get you a half now.

Waits for Northerners to die of shock at the price.

Over in Kirkwall a pint of Guinness has been about three pounds for a
couple of months now.

But that's not North, that's foriegn :-)

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