The cash register in the community center was showing a last transaction of £1.55, in 1963 decimalization was still ten years away.
At one point, Magda--who is supposedly Hungarian--tells Valerie "You must have boyfriend," omitting the article from before the noun. This is how a Russian person would talk in English, as Russian doesn't use articles, while Hungarian does.
Everyone keeps pronouncing Magda's name as "Kova-K-S." In Hungarian, "cs" is pronounced as "ch."