Eye On The Past

Here is a list of goods and prices from 1931 /32. They are extracts from the Day Book of Killeens Shop, kindly loaned by Derry. Its a facinating insight into the everyday purchases of the time: - candles, flanelette, globes for lamps, cycle outfits for puncture repairs and parafin oil, as well as a total absence of items which are commomplace today - pasta, firelighters, yoghurt etc.
A cwt of cement cost 4/2 (four shilings and two pence), the equivalent of 25 cents in today's money.

1 cwt flour 11/- (eleven shillings)
1 lb butter 1/4. (one shilling and four pence)
2 pk woodbines (in fives) 4d.
2 oz tobacco 1/4.
9 oz wool 4/6.
2 lb bacon 1/8.
1/2 lb tea 1/5
4 lb sugar 1/2.
1 lb rashers 1/-.
1 score eggs 3/-
1 lb sausages 1/2
1/2 lb black pudding 4d.
1 loaf 4d.
1 candle 1d.
Borac powder 2d.
2 lb jam 1/5.
Pk wafer oats 1/3.
1 lb soap 6d.
1 cwt pollard 7/9.
4 yds flanelette 5/-.
Brasso 1/3.
Toothpaste 1/3.
1 ng whiskey 3/4.
Matches 1d.
1 pr socks 2/-
1/4 oz snuff 21/2d.
Vim 10d.
1 gal oil 1/-.
Jeyes Fluid 1/-
1 pr boots 15/-
Pants 8/-.
4 Oranges 10d.
Polish 1d.
1 bottle cod liver oil 2/-.
Mouse trap 2d.
1 lb USA biscuits 1/6.
1 lb bread soda 3d.
4 herrings 8d.
1 box blue 3d.
1 bottle stout 6d.
1/2 lb cocoa 1/1.
2 lb marmalade 1/2.
1 st bran 1/3.
1 cwt corncrake 8/6.
1 pr stockings 1/-.
1 pr socks 1/3.
Globe 6d.
Twig 2/6.
Bucket 1/4.
Saucepan 2/9.
1 lb rice 5d.
Brack 1/-.
Shovel and handle 3/-.
3 stone hayseed 12/-.
Cycle outfit 6d.
Calf mixture 2/5.
Syphon soda 1/-
1/2 stone cruhed flax ?
31/2 lb rape seed 1/9.
1/4 acre spraying 2/2.
1/2 pint malt 6/6/
Bottle sherry 7/6.
1 cwt cement 4/2.
3 lb turnip seed 4/-.
1 overall 7/6.