It’s good sometimes just to reminisce, believe you me we do a lot of that when we are working on Talk About Bletchley. Over the next few weeks I will be inserting some adverts we have found in old copies of The Bletchley Gazette, just to start off here’s a few from the Bletchley Co-operative Society in 1951.

For those of you old enough to remember the prices charged are all in the old currency obviously, £ s d, long before decimilization took place. Some may argue that you could purchase a lot more then for your money, others will counter that and say, ‘well our wages were a lot lower’! However you feel we cannot halt the passage of time, but it’s good to look back and see what things were really like 66 years ago!

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