1968 admission price.

[davidwhitehead]

Fruit Salad or Blackjacks ?

 

[Grumpy G]

Fruit Salad or Blackjacks ?

8 for a new penny at time of decimalisation

 

[The Flying Picket]

I am sure it was 2/6 for juniors, which peeved me because it was 1/6 to get into the Scummers, which our football coach at school took us too, and Scummers were in a higher league then.

 

[borisatha]

I can remember under sixteen year olds were 1/6 in the Southend around 1967’
Under sixteens had there own entrance/gate.

 

[worcs_mike]

Fruit Salad

 

[Kenya Cherrie]

Many a game I sneaked in through the gate at half time.

 

[Deleted member 754]

I've left a few at half-time

 

[Ken Baileys Ghost]

In 1968 I was ten and living on Holdenhurst Road near the station. Memory can be an unreliable witness. That said, I remember my dad giving me half a crown (two shillings and sixpence, or 12.5p) to go in that enclosure. Instead I spent two shillings (10p) to go in the Brighton Beach end, and bought two packets of polos with the sixpence I saved. The game was against Stockport County I think and it was a freezing cold day.

Amazing really to think of a ten year old being given the money to go off and do something like that on their own.

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[clintclease]

I reckon it was 3 shillings behind the goals - 1/6d for juveniles