As with my post the other day about the cooking leaflets, these are all leaflets that I saved when emptying my family home. They’ve been sitting on a shelf for the intervening years, but they’re just too fun to leave there. This batch is a bunch of leaflets all about the introduction of metric weights and measures.

Shopping in metric

Metric for shoppers

Some common metric weights and measures

The kilogram

I was a child when these were produced, and I remember that ounces definitely survived as a unit of measurement at home for quite some time. Even in our baking classes at school a few years later, we were still stubbornly sticking to imperial.