gas man

[tezz7624]

hi
first post
anyone remember gas man collecting pennies from gas meter and rolling them up in paper tubes

[Dextrous63]

Hi Tezz and welcome.

I don’t recall that I’m afraid.

Mind you, we did have the old coin meters for gas and electricity dotted round the house and had to feed coins into them.  But since they were never locked, each meter only had 1 or 2 coins in them at any time.

[Raven]

No, that's a new one on me. 

[Michael Rolls]

our meter took, from memory, florins rather than pennies.

[garabaldi]

I never saw a 'gas woman' in those days although my granpa used to say they were always gassing??

[Judd]

I always remember that my dad got me to put my weekly, two-bob pocket money in my NSB piggy-bank. I was sixteen before I realised it was the gas meter. 

[JBR]

I always remember that my dad got me to put my weekly, two-bob pocket money in my NSB piggy-bank. I was sixteen before I realised it was the gas meter. 

🤣🤣🤣

[Alex22]

Hi Tezz, I do remember putting coins in the meter, but I think it was more than pennies !  😄

[mick607]

I remember the old shilling meter or 5p in today's money.

[Alex22]

Yeah it was the old shillings 👍

[Scallywag]

hi
first post
anyone remember gas man collecting pennies from gas meter and rolling them up in paper tubes

Not only collecting the cash but also returning a little from overpayment on the quantity consumed.

[GrannyMac]

We never had a slot meter.  We must have been well posh. 😉

[Scallywag]

We never had a slot meter.  We must have been well posh. 😉

Most slot meters way back then were mostly found in rented accommodation of some description and that still applies today in my renters.

[GrannyMac]

My parents rented their flat in a private block, from when they got married in 1934 until mum moved into a nursing home around 1990. I never understood why they didn’t buy, my father had a decent job.

[Raven]

We bought a big flat back in the 70s when I first got married. Lovely flat but it ate money. There always seemed to be something, it was in a town centre block of 14 flats and I was glad when we left.