"We didn't have two ha'pennies to rub together," Don remembers.

“Your mother might want to put in her sixpence ha'penny, but...”

"But it's the little details that are so heart-breaking. Her pathetic possessions: in her saddlebag she had 10 cigarettes for her brother-in-law, fivepence ha'penny and a handkerchief."

In the 1920s each empty yielded a ha'penny, but by the 1980s it had risen to the princely sum of 10p.

The tabletop travel game is a cross between bowls and shove ha'penny, where players aim to get their discs closest to the jack.