Valentine Card and Shopping List c.1960

Wow I love these old style cards. Didn't some sort of government agency govern postcards because they were too saucy?

The poem goes:
Lonely I rest in far Penzance
Chillier without thy warming glance
But swift upon aurora's wings
The postman at the portal rings
Bringing news of thy address
So haste I now and onward press
With tidings good that all is well
At No 1 and truth to tell
I can no more but except perchance
Send thee a Valentine "in advance".

If you click on the mid-size photo you can read the poem for yourelf and the details of the shopping list my mother wrote inside. I rather like the humorous card!

I don't think there's anything very saucy about this card, HH, except the shopping list perhaps, which has sage and onion at 6d!

@Tpp...Even at those prices it was a lot comparing yesteryears income to the present..
strangely though I have a habit of converting back to the old L.s.d.
On one occasion when I was back there I overheard one man ask another how much
he had paid for an item - he repied 4pounds 60p to which the other said I remember when
I could get drunk on 4.60 at which I said to the wife "I can remember getting drunk on
less than 60p !!! How things have changed over the years.....

Thanks for your interesting comment, welb! I'd like to know what all those shopping items would cost today.
It is easily possible to make a tough guess but it depends on the quantities which aren't shown.

Anyhow, I've had a go now and these items would probably come to about £23. We're talking about food costing £1/6/6 (£1.33 as decimal today) 50 years ago but that means the items are now about 17 times the 1960 prices.

Does that sound about right or have I over-estimated? I'll have to try and find out on Google perhaps.

@Tpp...Hard to say from this side of the pond !! what I must say is that we can get
Sage & Onion stuffing and other imports....at a mark up in price but worth every penny !!