How goods your memory ?

[Doc Vernon]

We called it a Ticky Keith

And thus the old Ticky Hoc Bar where you could get a Hoc for a Ticky.
Boy did it have a kick!

Made from all the Overspill when the Barmen used to pour Shots over the Silver Tray catcher, so you had all sorts of Drinks mixed!

You could just stand outside the Station Pub in Cape Town and watch the Guys come out, hardly one that was on the Hoc was able to get very far! All fall down ! LOL

[Doc Vernon]

As an afterthought talking about Memory!
How many of you Lads remember the old little Steam Train Engine Model that was housed in a Glass casing, on the Cape Town Station.
Used to have to put a Penny in to make it work. It was really a work of Art, with every detail of the real McCoy! Great watching it go as Kids!
Just loved it!
Not sure but i think its possibly still there??
Must ask my Sister!
Cheers

Model of a steam train, Cape Town Station, circa 1960s | UCT Libraries Digital Collections

They also had this one later on, sounds like its also on the move though.
Cheers

"Blackie"

Hawthorne Leslie locomotive, Cape Town - Cape Town railway station - Wikipedia

[j.sabourn]

How many remember cleaning their teeth from the soot from the fireplace chimney.? JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Not sure about the train Vern, but de recall the horse and buggy that ran from there.
Tiki Hoc, followed by hic, hic, hic was not for the feint hearted or bad eye sight on coming out.

[j.sabourn]

The silver threepenny pieces were also girls and young ladies collectors items for making bracelets and bangles for weairing on their wrists believe my wife had one at one time must have used it when hard up? JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

I was four when I started school in 1936 and we used farthings then, when we could get them, money was tight, used to buy broken biscuits on the way to school.
Des

[j.sabourn]

They were still there during my childhood as well Des .?.
4. Farthings 1 Penny
3. Pennies. Theepence
6 Pennies. sixpence
12 Pennies. Shilling
2. Shillings. florin
2 shillings plus 6 pence Half a crown
5 shillings 5 Bob
10 shillings. 10 Bob
20 shillings A quid
21 shillings. A Guinea.
5 quid A Fiver and a hell of a lot of money .Managed to collect 5 of them after 6 months first trip to sea.
JS

[happy daze john in oz]

In the 50's recall seeing three farthings at the end of many price tags.
Think that is why Cappy still owes 3/9 three farthings, he cannot remember where the farthings are kept.

[j.sabourn]

He got a bracelet made for Mary and he doesn’t remember. JS

[James Curry]

240 pennies in a £. The halfpenny used to have the Golden Hind only one I remember but from 1672 until 1936 it had the image of Britannia