'When change changed: a pocketful of history lost' - your letters, plus a snapshot from a 1939 trip to the zoo
Your letters on local life and views, from coinage change to supermarket silliness...

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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?





