Coke with bubbles in already was for the posh kids on the new private estate, like ready-salted crisps. Three ha'pennies would get a brown paper bag of crisps and someone would have to go down to the salt-lick near the garages where they kept the cow for a few scrapings to season them. If there were calfs around then sometimes we'd have to go without or just use sweat.
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in
1980s 5p pieces were much bigger than today's 5p pieces....
Another thing is that so many people believe .177's are "more accurate than .22, simply because the think the group size is smaller (by about 0.5~1 milimetre) but they're measuring the outside diameter group, not the centre to centre group. There are far too many girly calibre guns around because of this misunderstanding!
BSA Super10 addict, other BSA's inc GoldstarSE, Original (Diana) Mod75's, Diana Mod5, HW80's, SAM 11K... All sorted!