In Reply to: re: £1 of petrol in the 70s = €100 now posted by Exaggeration police on July 06, 2008 at 20:49:38:

Petrol station fire down the country somewhere last week - so it does happen.

I should have made it clearer - it was the 1870s not the 1970s and it was very difficult to find a petrol pump anywhere but a pound went a long way back then.