| The shop was promoting gold brooches from six shillings and sixpence, and gilt paste brooches from one shilling. |
| The steering is beefy, the turn-in very sharp, the brakes can stop you on a sixpence, and the acceleration is just mind blowing. |
| This tank-like thing was almost impossible to drive and I had to follow the camera car, stop on a sixpence and act at the same time. |
| In the spirit of the time, a whip-round was carried out and I was soon clutching a fist-full of pennies and ha'pennies to make up my sixpence. |
| It included a threepenny bit, a sixpence, a shilling, a two shilling, a half crown, and four and five shilling pieces. |
| In very little time my order arrived in a small plastic container and I paid the shilling and sixpence that the meal cost. |
