Shanklin Sailing Club

A ticket for the first ever sailing club dinner and dance has been unearthed. Some of the older subscribers who can remember back then reckon 62 1/2 p was a lot to pay for a bun fight.

SHANKLIN AMATEUR SAILING CLUB
The First
Annual Dinner and Dance
will be held at
SHANKLIN TOWERS HOTEL
On Thursday, 10th December, 1931.
Dinner 7.0 Dance 9.0
DINNER and DANCE 12/6

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/historic-i ... calculator thinks that comes to a nice round £29.99 in today's money.

Perhaps when you were living 8 to a shoebox 12 and 6 was a lot of money.

sorry, that was mine, I did say that I couldn't go that year, but I never did get the refund.