For Hoddle, who was not an Army officer, half pay amounted to two shillings and fivepence per day. |
We got five pounds thirteen and fivepence by the bazaar and the raffle. |
It is covered in dainty, circular flowers, each about the size of a fivepence piece. |
In 1922,a pint of beer cost five old pennies, while a gallon of petrol cost three shillings and fivepence halfpenny. |
But supposing the cost were not sixpence a week, not fivepence? |