'When change changed: a pocketful of history lost' - your letters, plus a snapshot from a 1939 trip to the zoo

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PICTURE FROM THE PAST: Wolverhampton Photographic Society members and their children on a visit to Dudley Zoo in 1939.
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​When change was changed

When they changed the change in our pockets

Did it make us less patriotic?

I mean when we went decimal

Did we become less deferential as well?

After all, they took all the royal lineage away

When they gave us this new way to pay

Victoria, your Edwards, your Georges

All disappeared from our coinage

An early example of cancel culture?