Entrance was by a sixpenny refreshment ticket and the star was Sam Cowell, who had been lured from Evans ' Supper Rooms.
If a horse to be shod, or any broken tool were left with a sixpenny piece at the entrance of the cave the repairs would presently be executed.
Lord Lyttleton took with him two guns, one of which he loaded with silver sixpenny pieces which were considered a charm against evil.
Shortly after the start of World War II, faced with rapid price inflation, the British Woolworths abandoned their sixpenny price limit.
Sixpenny illustrated magazines commenced with Good Words (1860) and the Quiver (1861), both religious in tendency.
There were no telephones, no sixpenny telegrams, no typewriters, no dictaphones or calculating machines.
They published paragraphs in the newspapers, articles in the magazines, sixpenny pamphlets, five-shilling books.
While there, he published a sixpenny book, Soyer 's Charitable Cookery, giving part of the proceeds to various charities.