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Originally Posted by CageyH

Marco had to put another 50p in the meter, and all was good.

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I heard a perished elastic band was the issue. But the 50p 'fix' sounds more likely, you don't get owt for nowt these days.

It's a quid in the meter these days.

I thought things had moved on to cards that you have to buy?

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Originally Posted by CageyH

I thought things had moved on to cards that you have to buy?

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My pal in London still has a coin meter in his flat but new installations of them ended in the late 1980s I think.

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Originally Posted by Macca

My pal in London still has a coin meter in his flat but new installations of them ended in the late 1980s I think.

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I think I can remember as far back as when they took a florin (two bob). What coins does he put in it these days?

Your mention of a coin meter reminds me of a mate from the early 2000s, who had a coin-operated flat screen telly. He found a way to get into the meter, so he just kept re-using the same coin. He got demand letters a couple of times, then nothing. I think the firm went bust.

Then one day I went round to find the screen had a shoe-shaped hole in it from a barney he'd had with his missus. Curiously, the telly was still working (sort of). Worst mate ever! for reasons I'll post about at some point.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

I think I can remember as far back as when they took a florin (two bob). What coins does he put in it these days?

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Pound coins.

One of my aunties used to have a coin meter 'under the stairs' but that took the old 50p coins, the big ones.

She was not poor by any stretch so no idea why they had a coin meter but she was pretty scatter-brained so the power would often go out and you'd have to find 50p in the dark then find the meter slot in the dark.