In a professional career that started after his demob from National Service in 1954 and ended in 1971 when Britain embraced decimalisation Cooper was twice named sports personality of the year and reigned longer than anyone else as British heavyweight champion. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's 1971, the year of decimalisation and, more importantly, Alison's first summer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
An overhaul of all coinage in April, being billed as the most significant change to the currency since decimalisation, will see it replaced with a representation of modern Britain ... ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)
The British pre-decimal penny was so big that it cost more than 1d to make (and had more than 1d of scrap metal in it) by the mid-60s, so the government started us on a five-year move towards decimalisation. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I'm sure people resisted decimalisation but that happened - let's complete the task. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Yet we are told that under the most significant overhaul of coinage since decimalisation, she is to be replaced with a representation of modern Britain, whatever that may be. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)
Wormleighton's post office closed when decimalisation came in - it was too much for the post mistress. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Before decimalisation, Britons were carrying great works of art around in their small change, says Simon Heffer. ❋ Unknown (2011)
His work was still passing through our hands right up until decimalisation, almost 70 years after his death. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The joke wasn't actually about decimalisation and it didn't take joke form as such - consisting of an allusion to a social innovation almost as unnerving to the British in its day as the disappearance of the shilling. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Or at least it was lovely for me and those in the audience roughly of the same age - which is to say old enough to remember decimalisation, and the nationwide apprehension that preceded that great social change. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The enforced switch to metric in retail only happened in the 90s, relatively recently considering the overall introduction of metric and decimalisation and so on in the 70s. ❋ Unknown (2010)
One was the year of A Clockwork Orange and decimalisation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When Upstairs, Downstairs was first broadcast on Sunday 10 October 1971, Britain was struggling with decimalisation and that new-fangled trumpery of a gaudy Satan, colour telly. ❋ Stuart Jeffries (2010)
The sixpence, introduced in 1551, was made obsolete by the decimalisation of sterling and the last coins were struck in 1967. ❋ Unknown (2010)
