4 bob for the terracing?

[derby1884]

A ticket from my rather rudimentary ticket collection - just struck me that 4 bob seems rather high even for 1938. Perhaps not, though.

How does it compare with your club?
I mean, it is Arsenal, so you've got to expect premium prices



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[Footyfan]

Surely, the ticket is for a Seat? It was 4/- at Leeds in the early/mid 1960s
for Terrace Standing.

Your example actually advises the holder to take their seat by 5.25pm.

1938 was pre-floodlights days hence the early evening kick off. We get early evening kick offs now to suit the TV companies.

Nice item of memorabilia though.

[derby1884]

Oops! So it does!

Well spotted - just testing
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[littlewiggy]

The princely sum of 11p (I think?) was charged to see Burnley play at Somerton Park in May 1947, just a week after they'd lost the FA Cup Final to Charlton Athletic.

It's unconfirmed, but I believe this was county's first ever "all-ticket" home match too.

The Div 2 season didn't finish until June that year, due to the original "Big Freeze."

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

littlewiggy wrote:

The princely sum of 11p (I think?) was charged to see Burnley play at Somerton Park in May 1947, just a week after they'd lost the FA Cup Final to Charlton Athletic. It's unconfirmed, but I believe this was county's first ever "all-ticket" home match too. The Div 2 season didn't finish until June that year, due to the original "Big Freeze."

Lovely Wiggy - however, you are too young to remember that 1s 6d = 7.5 new pence.

[littlewiggy]

Thanks Pete, trying to decipher old money always confuses the life out of me.
I was only three when it all changed, but can still remember the 'Tanner' coin (6p?), which was still in circulation (albeit no longer being minted) when I was growing up.

I now understand why my old Nan completely failed to grasp decimalisation.
She'd wander around the shops with me as a kid in the 1970s muttering stuff like ... "I'm not paying two shillings for that I know" ... when it said 10p or something like on the sticker.

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

I had the job of teaching my granddad (he was 83 in 1971) about de-kimalisation as he called it. I think I failed miserably.

Even now, when we pay £2 for a loaf from our bakers, it's hard not to think about paying 1s 6d for one in 1970 !!