#pounds shillings and pence

[petermorwood]

And still with us as of 21st January 2025.

Here's one I hadn't heard before. As someone who experienced the conversion from Old Money to New, I understand.

At least I understand the theory, but since I didn't and still don't have the Master's Degree in Mathematics which he recommends, the practice leaves me as baffled as before.

Suffice to say that both in UK New Money and later in Euro, decimal makes a lot more sense than this song.

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Writer Note - for general info about what pre-decimal currency was like, check this video. It's Old Currency Info Lite, and a bit sloppy about details.

It flubs a couple of things, completely overlooking that there were other banknotes than the one-pound note.

Five- and ten-pound notes were in use, though growing less common in ordinary circumstances as their value increased. The largest denomination an ordinary person might carry were fivers, and perhaps an occasional tenner.

At the other end of this scale was a ten-shilling note, something lucky kids might receive through the post, tucked into the birthday or Christmas card sent by a particularly doting relative.

Speaking as one of those lucky kids, leaving out the ten-bob note is IMO a reprehensible oversight.

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The video could also make it clearer that gold guinea and half-guinea coins were long out of circulation by the time decimal currency came in. Gold sovereign and half-sovereign coins were also long gone from street use, reserved for investment and bullion transfer instead.

Pricing of goods and services in guineas continued after the coins went away, used for "snob value" to prove the purchaser could pay more when buying things like land or property, tailored suits or horses, and paying professional fees to lawyers and doctors.

(It may also have a "baker's dozen" aspect, with the purchaser adding a bit extra to offset any risk of seeming stingy, or as a way of adding commission to the sale - though TBH, for most purposes it's more likely to be snobbish.)

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The video also suggests that a crown (five-shilling coin) was regularly used for shopping right up to decimalisation. Beg to differ. During my pre-decimal lifetime I never saw one as pocket change. Half-crown yes, crown no.

After QEII's coronation in 1952, the crown coin was AFAIK only ever issued as a commemorative, so while it remained legal tender and could be used in shops, it was invariably just kept as a souvenir.

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As Terry Pratchett once put it: "British people resisted decimal currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated."

But with all that said, and lacking a scientific study to confirm or deny it, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that pre-decimal people were better at mental arithmetic, if only as a survival measure...

I cannot overstate how much I love Tom Lehrer's story. It sounds so fake but is entirely real.

He's a goddamn genius- he started studying mathematics at Harvard when he was 15 and graduated magna cum laude. He worked at Los Alamos for a few years before being drafted and working for the NSA, where he claims to have invented jello shots to get around alcohol bans.

He then went back to Harvard for a couple years before starting to teach political science at MIT.

Through all of that, he was writing and performing both some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Masochism Tango) and absolutely scathing political satire (Who's Next, Wernher von Braun, Send the Marines). Until the mid/late 60s counterculture gained momentum. He didn't like their aesthetic, so he stopped making music.

Shortly after, he moved to California and started teaching math and musical theater history at the UC Santa Cruz for the next 30 years.

I don't know if non-Californians understand just how goddamn funny that is. It's where stoners and math (and now computer science) kids who couldn't get into Berkeley go. Leaving Harvard/MIT for UCSC is peak academic phoning it in. And by all accounts he had a blast.

Plus the whole putting all of his music in the public domain thing. That fucked.

[soup-mother]

I've got that stupid fucking coin song stuck in my head. they literally removed that bit from the museum why am i thinking about this?

[tenth-sentence]

There was daring and treachery enough to fill many a book, yet the real story was told in pounds, shillings, and pence.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[travellingdragon]

Every British dragon seemed able to maintain a full and perfect accounting, down to pence, of their funds. Even when there had been a further four allocations, after small seizures of individual wagons taken in skirmishing, there was still not a beast among them who could not stand before all the separate scrolls—Temeraire now kept these posted up outside his own clearing, under guard—and in an instant calculate the exact value of the shares of any dragon on the list, and compare this against their own. This facility in no way diminished their desire of having the numbers written out for them, however, much to the dismay of their captains. "I had no idea of Iskierka’s being so handy at sums," Granby muttered, as she announced with great satisfaction, "I believe I have one hundred twenty-four pounds sixteen shillings threepence, and Requiescat has one hundred twenty-one pounds eleven shillings tuppence; now pray check it for me, Granby, and show me all your work," which entailed a quarter of an hour’s hard-fought calculations for him, with one mistake along the way, which Iskierka pointed out severely before he had quite finished writing it down. Aviators did not get a great deal in the way of formal schooling. Mrs. Pemberton finally took pity upon the officers and offered her services to make individual copies of the lists, and as her head for mathematics was good enough to satisfy them, the dragons were eager to accept the substitute, although after a week she was obliged to begin charging them a shilling apiece for the copies, or she would have been applied to for a fresh set by every beast, every day.

League of Dragons, chapter 16

[fishmech]

it was so complicated that 50s and 60s computer systems for use in the UK or for dealing with UK business would need additional equipment like this.

(the "BSI" and "IBM" refer to differing standards for representing the subdivisions of the old pound computationally; being different systems that attempted to reduce the amount of storage needed to deal with those fiddly fractions)

You can imagine how long my sleepless American ass spent pondering the right-hand coin at toddler group, with the only explanation coming to hand that I was in an alternate universe, until a group of elderly British people swooped in with glad cries to explain something about decimalisation

[vintage-london-images]

Fancy going shopping in Oxford Street in the late 1960s, do you remember these shops and brands? Well pick a shop and let's go and spend some money, but remember to take your pounds shillings and pence.

The song is Down Town song by Petula Clark released in 1964, it went too number two in the British charts and number one in the US.

Please check out other posts with hashtag #video on @vintage-london-images

[very-gay-poet]

Warning: I am incapable of taking myself seriously, use “???” and “!!!” way too often as I am afraid of the first mark being lonely, and use “:D” at least once a paragraph, and if I didn��t, dw I used it in spirit Also I talk a lot (this is 779 words)

I love (hate) how jkr made everything so much harder than it needed to be for herself and the fandom lmao like the currency always pissed me off so I fixed it here you go: 

This is based on the British currency (bc I’m most familiar with that and still have no idea why she didn’t just do this considering she just made a normal senior school magical and gave it magical properties for hogwarts?????) 

The ratio to a Galleon to BP is 1:1 to make this simple bc I don’t wanna do more math than necessary :D

(ima leave all the math at the bottom to those who care about that but pls look at it I had to do MATHS. I DID MATHS FOR THIS.) 

and Bc I am full of whimsy, I want them to have a print on them, kinda like how the current royal is on all the notes and coins to stop people from making it themselves or smth idk anyway a Galleon has a dragon on it bc they’re cool argue with a brick wall you have a better chance of winning (I based some of these on familiars which were more commonly associated with smaller animals so none will be as cool as a dragon :( IM SORRY CHARLIE WEASLEY I HAVE FAILED YOU)

Half a Galleon is called a Ullium (named after the first, and best, Minister Of Magic) it’s a silver coin, only slightly larger than a Galleon, in the shape of a decagon, with a print of a cat bc I definitely think they have a saying like “a cat is a witches best friend” kinda like “A dog is man's best friend” bc I love cats and so do they <3

A fifth of a Galleon is a Sickle wow I’m actually listening to canon for once look at that!!! Basically equivalent to a 20p on its own, but looks like a 5p for some reason (small circular silver coin) but with a griffin on it bc why tf not you have something against griffins????

Next up, holy moly replay that clip dude bc I’m following canon for once AGAIN!!!! Be so proud of me chat I know I am, anyways, everyone's favourite the Knut (PFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTT THAT PUN WAS NOT INTENDED AT ALL LMAOOOOO) a little bronze coin with a goat on it (fun fact that I probably should’ve known sooner: goats were believed to be magical or spiritual powers!!!! sick right???? Anyways thought that was cool, slapped it on a coin what you gonna do about it champ) no one makes a Galleon out of knuts (oh my gods I am a child) but if you wanted to you absolute weirdo you’d have to have 21 of these bad boys

MOVING ON to another one of my own making, a Coronet!!! It's a small reddish coin about the size of a twenty p and isn’t very popular, usually just used as change (bout as useful as a five p or penny) but it has a ferret on it so I wouldn’t be complaining ya win some ya lose some. 

Named it coronet bc it was the name of an actual currency once used in England but bc of inflation it doesn’t exist anymore :( my baby girl was “a denomination of sterling coinage worth a quarter of one pound (five shillings, or 60 (old) pence)” according to google bc you can’t expect me to acatually remember that 

Anyway for all y'all here for the math *cough* losers *cough* come right this way: 

Galleon to pound ratio is 1:1 

Sickle = fifth of Galleon (5 of them make 1 Galleon)

Wanna make a sickle through knuts??? First of all, why?, Second of all you just need 7 of them to make 1 sickle

To make a (1) Galleon through knuts like a dumbass you’d need 21 knuts 

Though maybe not as much of a dumbass as people who wanna make a (1) Galleon out of Coronets HAHAHA have fun counting out 63 of them bitches suckers!!! (Coronets are a third of a Knut bc...I really am in too deep aren’t I) 

Anyway if you wanted to make a Galleon with a Ullium, like the smart person you are, you’d only need 2 

*to the tune of Sabrina Carpenters tour conclusion* 

If you have an issue with my math, no you don’t :D 

if you wanna know another equation of how to make x out of y then figure it out yourself :D 

I am not a calculator I simply work here :D

If you want to use this for inspo or use it as is then be sure to credit/tag me as I love reading things :D

[luimnigh]

Currency is weird.

For some reason a lot of western countries decided that the base unit of currency in their country was something that could be split into hundreds of smaller denominations.

While other countries decided that the base unit of currency was gonna be the smallest amount of money you could physically give someone.

Like, there's nothing smaller in Japanese currency than a single Yen. But a Yen is basically a Cent or a Penny. So when converting Euro or Dollars to Yen, it looks like you're getting a bunch of money, but the reality is just that there isn't a specific term for a hundred Yen. Honestly? It's actually a simpler system.

And on the other hand, then there's pre-decimal British currency, where you have three levels of new words for money with Pounds, Shillings and Pence. Except that's a fucking lie, because Guineas and Farthings also existed! There's 1008 Farthings to a Guinea!

My brother is going to Budapest in a few weeks, and he's exchanged his money into Hungarian Forints. One Euro is roughly 394 Forints.

And I was thinking "Oh that's neat, their base unit of currency is the smallest unit, like the Japanese Yen."

Turns out no, there's 100 fillér to a Forint, there's just been hyperinflation since the 1980s.

[the-clay-quarters]

yknow I'm glad fl uses decimal pounds despite the time period, the old pounds/shillings/pence system hurts

each pound had 20 shillings, each shilling had 12 pence, each pence had 2 halfpennies or 4 farthings

so, alternatively: each pound had 20 shillings, 240 pence, 480 halfpennies, or 960 farthings

can you imagine trying to do math with that? or how many layers the sidebar display would need??

[sheltoner]

foreign coin collection tour!

@baguette975 asked me to talk about my coins and i could never say no to talking abt my coins

before i begin i want to say that basically all of these coins have been given to me over the years, so i have not been to most of these places 👍 (i don’t love to travel over seas and maybe i don’t appreciate it as much as i should for having this collection but wtv)

starting off strong with my UK coins! in this picture there are 1 pound, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p, 1 penny, and a 1/2 penny coins. i have a lot of these coins bc the thing that started this collection was a magnet game with UK coins that my parents bought me a long time ago lol

i also have shillings, along with irish pence and shillings and one east african shilling

next are my dutch coins! in this picture are 5 gulden, 2 1/2 gulden, 1 gulden, 25 cent, 10 cent, 5 cent, and 1 cent coins. the 10 cent coins are the smallest coins i have, they are a bit bigger than my thumbnail

these are my french coins. i have 20 francs, 10 francs, 5 francs, 2 francs, 1 franc, and 1/2 franc coins

austria! i have 1 shilling, 50 groschen, 10 groschen, 5 groschen, and 2 groschen coins

these are multiple counties in one picture for the sake of being under the photo limit. italy (top left) i have 100 lire, 10 lire, and 5 lire. switzerland (top right) i have 10 rappen, 5 rappen, 1 rappen, and 1/2 franc. norway (bottom left) i have 1 krone, 50 øre, 25 øre, and 10 øre

more miscellaneous coins that i don’t have more than 4 for 1 country. denmark (top left) 1 krone, 25 øre, 10 øre, 1 øre. belgium (top right) 20 francs, 1 franc. spain (bottom right) 5 pesetas, 1 peseta. greece (bottom center) 10 lepta. czechoslovakia (bottom left) 1 haler, this coin is so dirty and oxidized that you can’t see anything on it in the pic 😭

germany! i have coins for 5 marks, 2 marks, 1 mark, 10 pfennig, 5 pfennig, 2 pfennig, and 1 pfennig

i have USSR coins! i have one 5 rubles and three 1 ruble coins. the 5 rubles coin is the biggest in my collection

i also have just regular euros. i have 2 euro, 1 euro, 50 cent, 20 cent, 5 cent, and 1 cent coins

uruguay! i have 10 pesos, 5 pesos, 2 pesos, and 1 pesos coins

mexico, 100 pesos, 50 pesos, and 20 pesos coins

miscellaneous picture #3. thailand (top, center) 10 baht and 1 baht. indonesia (top left) 50 rupees. india (center left) 1 rupee. brazil (bottom left/center) 25 centavos. colombia (center/bottom center) 100 pesos. peru (bottom right) 5 soles.

canada! i have 25 cent, 10 cent, 5 cent, and 1 cent coins

and now. my special guys. on the left is a hungarian revolutionary period coin from 1848. on the right is what i believe to be a chinese kiang-soo province 10 cash coin, or at least that’s what i can gather from it. it’s a very well worn coin so it’s hard to see the design on the other side or read the few words in english on that side, but google image search helped a lot if that’s to be trusted. these two coins are my favorite :)

these last ones are coins but just tokens and stuff like that. top left is copenhagen tram tokens, top right is ferry tokens for cities not to be named for my privacy, bottom left is a collectible coin (i think that’s the purpose?) from the ben franklin science institute, bottom center is an old nyc transit token, and bottom right is some sort of game token

so those are my coins! there’s a lot of them lol

[historia-vitae-magistras]

oh gee, may i ask about 10 for arthur and rhys? (or just one of them, whatever you feel ok with!)

What objects do they always carry around with them? (What do they need for their normal, day-to-day routine? What does ‘normal’ even look like for them.)

So, two parts for this one 9th century, one 21st.

Arthur, 9th century. He was living mobile and half-feral from the first thaw to the first frost, usually wintering with Rhys, Alasdair or Brighid, who were more settled. Wool cloak, tunic and trousers over underlinens and stockings. Leather belt and boots. Iron seax and iron cloak fastening brooches as a sign of a free but relatively low-status man. Lead celtic cross on a leather cord around his neck. Quiver, arrows and bow of Welsh make. He would have worn a light pack with a bedroll, a spare tunic and a cloak of better weave from Brighid or Rhys. No more than two or three days' worth of bread, cheese and occasionally dried meat at a time. Two water flasks. A few coins. A flint and iron striker. A smaller eating knife, a wooden spoon and a bowl. A couple of small leather bags with herbs, a few leather hare traps and a good length of waxed sailcloth he can lash to a tree as a simple tent tarp. Scissors, awl, needles and thread for clothing repair make up his worldly possessions.

Rhys, 9th century: Living a more settled life farming and fighting in Gwynedd, Rhys was living a significantly less hand-to-mouth existence. His daily wear would have been the same as Arthurs's, dyed in deeper colours because he’s older and more stable. As a skilled and aggressive flyter he’d need to be more prepared for violence. So where he’d be distinct is having chainmail, a helm, their mother’s sword and an early version of padded armour like a gambeson plus a bow more suited for warfare than the lighter hunting and self-defence bow he gave Arthur.

Arthur, 21st Century: This man carries a very bespoke case in formal situations. It might have a laptop pocket, but he dislikes using it. He’s got a very bespoke pen, pencil and highlighting set, and the pen is likely very old-fashioned because he writes like he’s 1200 and just reading Chaucer for the first time. Condoms. Pound notes and pence. Accidentally tries to count some random century-old shillings when he’s drunk, but they’re only in there for good luck. He’s got a cellphone, but he only checks the thing once a day or when Francois or Gabriel sends him dick pics. Probably There’s probably a small folding knife in there. I think he likes the weight of the cross strap on his chest the way he used to wear a Sam Brown belt or, long before that, the strap of his quiver.

Rhys, 21st century: Man’s kind of raw-dogging life. He’s got his phone, a tin of lanolin moisturizer, his wallet with cash, and a knife, but he lives in his head. He’s got a couple of walking sticks for rambling or hill walking, but other than that, it’s just whatever is in his pockets.

[schleyer]

13 pounds 16 shillings and 11 pence for a set of armourer's tools????

[anomalocaris-lesbian]

predecimal british currency was called the LSD system (or £SD) system and was like 20 shillings to a pound and 12 pence to a shilling

So silly

[lavareview]

x - x - x

MODEL: MK1 ASTRO LAMP

Brand: Crestworth

Introduced: 1964

Discontinued: 1965

Base and cap colors: brass

Wax colors: red, yellow, orange, green

Fluid colors: pink, yellow, clear, green, blue

Size: height 16 1/2“, base 5 1/4”

The Astro Lamp MK1 model was one of the very first lava lamps commercialized, sold by Crestworth (later renamed Mathmos) – only preceeded by the very first Astro Lamp, unofficially referred to as the MK0, which is rare enough to render information and pictures quite hard to dig up. I wanted to start off these reviews with as early a lamp as I could, so the MK1 seemed the best pick.

The Astro model has known many iterations since its 1963 introduction, and a modern Astro model is still sold today by Mathmos. However, for the purposes of cataloguing and reviewing, I will consider each generation of the Astro as a separate model, while acknowledging that the differences between generations may be so specific as to appear nonexistent (and I’m not good enough at recognizing them myself to be sure which generation I’m looking at!).

The Astro MK1 is the platonic ideal of the lava lamp; it’s probably more or less what you picture when you think of the words “lava lamp”, and I expect it always will be.

It features the traditional hourglass-shaped base, though in these early models the base is actually made up of two parts: two copper-colored cones which slide into one another, with the top cone containing the light bulb, and the power cable under it running through the bottom cone (see patent diagram below). In later lava lamps, the base would become a single piece.

The Astro is topped by a matching copper cap, which is notably shorter than what is seen in later lava lamp models. As with other lava lamps, the cap serves to hide the unsightly closure at the top of the glass globe.

Though the original Astro Lamp only offered a copper base/cap, it did come in a variety of wax and fluid colors.

A number of early Astro Lamps and other models of the same era can be found second-hand, usually selling for $150 to $300. The modern Astro Lamp, sold by Mathmos, retails for $130.

It was pretty difficult to figure out how much the Astro Lamp originally cost - I consulted ads and catalogs in both English and French as well as searched lava lamp websites and forums and found no mention of its price anywhere. I did find early on a catalog that listed under the Astro "£7-19-6", but was dumbfounded: what did the different numbers mean? Was it suggested price, highest retail price and lowest? Was it different international prices? It took me a while to figure out that the answer was much simpler (UK readers probably would've seen it immediately): before 1971, British prices were written in pounds, shillings and pence. The original Astro Lamp therefore sold for 7 pounds, 19 shillings and 6 pence, or £7.98 in decimal.

MY REVIEW:

How to review the Astro? It’s the first of its kind (excepting Donald Dunnet’s prototypes), so it would seem unfair to compare it to later lamps. At the same time, the Astro is so ubiquitous that it eclipses all competition in the collective imagination of the lava lamp. From Mathmos and Lava Lite’s popular models to the cheap, off-brand lava lamps you may find online or sold in supermarkets, the shape of the Astro remains ever-present – the details of size, make, proportions and colors may change, but the soul of the original Astro lives on in them nonetheless. I may have my opinions on it – but ultimately, in the minds of generations, the Astro will always be a ten out of ten.

SILHOUETTE: 10/10

As a result of the above, I find it impossible to give the Astro less than a perfect score on its silhouette. In another world, another timeline, where the Astro is of a different shape, so too would the entire world of lava lamps be changed in its image. It’s not my favorite silhouette – I’m not sure it’s even in my top three – but it is the silhouette.

DETAILS: 8/10

Here’s where I find some room for nitpicking. There’s a reason modern reimaginings of the Astro, official or off-brand, aren’t identical to the original. The two-part base is a major minus: the two separate cones make for an impractical and less portable object. I also find the shorter, stout cap less pleasant to the eye than its taller successors. Still, there’s little to pick apart here: the Astro is a simple, sleek, effective design. Though it is iconic to the 60s and 70s, I find its silhouette to be timeless.

COLORWAYS: 9/10

Modern lava lamp models come with such a variety of colorways that, in comparison, the Astro’s single base/cap color, its five fluid colors, and four wax colors seem limited. Still, these options are enough to create a number of pleasant colorways. Advertisement for the Astro describes it as “perfect anywhere” and “designed to suit any mood, any decor”. I’m tempted to agree: though I appreciate the breadth of color choices now available, the Astro’s offerings are quite satisfying. It helps that most of my favorite colors are included.

POWER: 10/10

What more can I say on the topic of the Astro’s longevity and icon status? This isn’t just a powerful lava lamp, it’s the powerful lava lamp. It only remains at a ten out of ten because I’m opposed to grading higher than the scale.

MY FINAL LAVA SCORE: 9.25/10

Is my information wrong? Did I miss a detail? Do you have a better picture of this model? Is there another model you’d like me to look into? Please send me an ask or submit relevant pictures!

[aokozaki]

did your school ever teach you how to use dozenal currency in case a future government ever decided to change it?

Australia's currency has been decimalised since 🎶 the 14th of February, 1966 🎶 so pretty sure when we learned about pounds shillings and pence, the framing device was more like "here's how it used to be" rather than "what if they change it back".

But like, it's been so long that maybe they did introduce it like that. Don't remember.

[tokyogirl07]

Watson’s Army Pension and Baker Street Rent

In A Study in Scarlet (Which I think is supposed to take place in 1881?), Watson’s Army pension is 11 shillings and 6 pence a day. 1 Shilling is 12 Pence, thus Watson’s daily pay is 11.5 shillings. 1 Pound is 20 Shillings. 11.5 x 30 days (Average days in a month) is 345 Shillings a month. Divided by 20 is 17.25 Pounds a month. Times that by 12 months means that Watson met Holmes, his annual salary was about 207 Pounds. In today’s money, that’d be about 32,202 Pounds a year, about 619 Pounds a week, or 2,683.5 Pounds a month. Or about $38,470 a year, about $740 a week, and about $3,206 a month. Bonus: Both Holmes and Watson were in their twenties when they met. Hell, Holmes was still taking college classes. According to Murray's Handbook to London As It is, 1879, "’Elegantly furnished rooms’ in [the] West End” (Which is where Baker Street was) were between 4 to 15 Guineas a week. 207 Pounds a year is a little over 4 Pounds a week. 1 Guinea is 1 Pound and 1 Shilling. 11.5 Shillings x 7 days is 80.5 Shillings a week (Or 4 Pounds and a Sixpence a week), which is 3 Guineas, 19 Shillings,  and a Sixpence a week. At minimum, Watson would probably spend about 2 Guineas on rent a week (If we go with the modern 33% of pay on rent rule of thumb). Going halves with Holmes would bring them right at the low end of the average West End weekly rent. Other factors would include how much Watson was actually willing to pay for rent vs his weekly salary, his increase in salary with the books sales and medical consultations, and if he and Holmes shared the money they got for solving cases. (We haven’t gotten there yet, but if the Granada series is to be believed, at one point Holmes is paid the Victorian equivalent of a little over a million dollars before it got doubled to about 2.5 million.) In later books, it sort of seems like Holmes takes over paying the whole rent (he was able to live in Baker Street alone when Watson got married, Watson sold his medical practice when he moved back in and he never had one when he lived at Baker Street). *Shrugs* If you ever wanted to know how much Holmes and Watson payed for rent it’d be about 2 - 7.5 Guineas or 1.05 - 7.88 Pounds a week a piece, which would be 163.34 - 1,225.85 Pounds or $195.13 - $1,464.46 a week a piece today.  Most likely, their rent would be closer to the lower range. So, at minimum in today’s money, 163.34 Pounds a piece ($195.13 a week, $845.56 a month, and $10,146.76 a year) and 326.68 Pounds together per week. ($390.27 a week, $1,691.17 a month, $20,294.04 a year) In other words, at the least, in total they pay more than I do. Historically, the West End is not cheap.��Go, Mrs. Hudson.

EDIT: Upon rechecking my figures, I was off on Doctor Watson’s annual income by about 2-3 pounds. Doesn’t really change much though. Also, in today’s money, Watson was making a little over $106 daily. Or almost 88 Pounds.