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  2. No. 1 Croydon - Wikipedia

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    No. 1 Croydon (formerly the NLA Tower, and colloquially the 50p Building, the Weddingcake or the Threepenny bit building) [1] is a tall building at 12–16 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, Greater London, next to East Croydon station. It was designed by Richard Seifert & Partners and completed in 1970. It has 24 storeys and is 269 feet (82 m) high.

  3. Threepence (British coin) - Wikipedia

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    The British threepence piece, usually simply known as a threepence, thruppence, or thruppenny bit, was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 80 of one pound or 1 ⁄ 4 of one shilling. It was used in the United Kingdom , and earlier in Great Britain and England .

  4. History of the threepence - Wikipedia

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    The threepence [1] or threepenny bit [2] was a denomination of currency used by various jurisdictions in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, valued at 1/80 of a pound or 1 ⁄ 4 of a shilling until decimalisation of the pound sterling and Irish pound in 1971. It was also used in some parts of the British Empire (later known as the ...

  5. London Borough of Croydon - Wikipedia

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    The tower was originally nicknamed the Threepenny bit building, as it resembles a stack of pre-decimalisation Threepence coins, which were 12-sided. It is now most commonly called The Octagon, being 8-sided. Lunar House is another high-rise building.

  6. Bit (money) - Wikipedia

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    Thus a threepence coin or "threepenny piece" was referred to as a "threepenny bit", usually pronounced "thrupny bit". The term was used only for coins with a value of several named units (e.g., three pence), and never applied to a penny, shilling, or half crown coin. A 1946 "sixpenny bit" of George VI

  7. History of the British penny (1901–1970) - Wikipedia

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    The old pennies quickly went out of use after Decimal Day, 15 February 1971—there was no exact decimal equivalent of them, and the slogan "use your old pennies in sixpenny lots" explained that pennies and "threepenny bits" were only accepted in shops if their total value was six old pence (exactly 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 new pence). The old penny was ...

  8. What happened to the JonBenét Ramsey house? Mansion a ... - AOL

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    The residence at 749 15th St., where JonBenét Ramsey was murdered in December 1996, is pictured on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 in Boulder, Colorado.

  9. Pirate Jenny - Wikipedia

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    Low-Dive Jenny is a lowly maid at a "crummy old hotel", imagining avenging herself for the contempt she endures from the townspeople. A pirate ship – with eight sails, and with 50 cannons [2] – enters the harbor, fires on the city and flattens every building except the hotel. The pirates come ashore, chain up all the townspeople, and ...