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28 Jul 13
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£5...17...6 CHICKEN FACOTORY GAVE ME MA 3 QUID
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£3.50 junior audit clerk..chartered accountants
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£7.50 APPRENTICE BRICKLAYER SPUNKED IT ON 10P YANKYS ODDS ON FAVS
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A few pence over £3.....then a few pence under (stamp went up)
app Panel Beater |
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REGITS WAS £6.76 NEVER BEEEN SKINT SINCE
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MISSILES WAS £2.18.5......DIDNT GET HIS WACK
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£6 / week, Export Shipping Clerk, not much left after I paid my board.
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NO BRASS FOR YOU THAT WEEK THEN HOLYWELL
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£25 - stock contol-listening to racing results on radio 5 every hour
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Sadly johnny my two sons have never heard of board.
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I WAS WONDERING WHEN WE GOT THE FIRST COLLEGE EDUCATED ONE .....A FKKKIN PONY
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I BLAME THE PARENTS HOLY
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£4 10sh 6d
I used to give my Mum, half! £1 17sh 6d I never was very good at geography! |
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johhny,
You're are right, I blame the wife.  |
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My 1st job was 1950 when I worked in a furniture factory making high
class hand made dining room suites and display cabinets I had gone to college for two years to learn about the business, I was paid £2.50 I think out of which I gave my widowed mum £2. I was after being there a year called up for National Service and out of my 20 pence a day pay made made my mum an allowance of in todays money 10 pence per day, as I rose up the ranks I increased my mums money, when I was demobbed in 1953 I was on 55 pence a day. How times have changed. |
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sweet rationing stopped 53
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BLOODY ELL WEE-ECK DIDNT TAKE YOU LONG TO MAKE GENERAL
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Clerical Officer - £6-2-6 a week .
The only time I ever belonged to the officer class ! Bought a crock of a car at 17 and thought I was king of the world. ( Insert nostalgia smiley here ) |
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I paid £40 my 1st car.........Standard 8..............& £40 for my boys 1st car.............from "the early learning center"
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good thing about being in forces,if you blew your money,you always guaranteed 3 meals each day canteen
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£3-12s-8p aug 1964 APPRENTICE TURNER IN ENGINEERING ,I HAD £1 GAVE MAM THE REST
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£3-10-5d apprentice mechanic.
6/- a week for my bus weekly ticket to work £1 a week to my ma, the rest I just squandered. |
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My first job was working with over 100 woman I was one of three males
Do you know what my old man wanted me to do with him last night ? I leant a lot about woman and how they think working in that job. |
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£12.49 as a shipwright apprentice
£6 to me mum and 24p for my first pint of bitter we use to get paid cash weekly on a Thursday at 11:45am |
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27 PINTS LATER TREV
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£236 monthly pay ..... as I was born in the type of poverty that makes me laugh at today's definition .....I felt like a millionaire.
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worked on a Saturday for my step-father in his engineering factory working. I was 14 years old and he paid me 30 pence per hour. Later found out that I was doing the job as fast as the men he was paying £1.30 per hour
I quit,and never worked for or barely spoke to the scrooge for the last 30 years |
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1960.
left school to work for company who wired boxes for London buses £2.15 Shillings a week. Demoted to the paint shop after an inspector accused me of trying to blow the buses up. Got sacked a few weeks later for puting the formans overalls in the swarfega, Found job as trainee salesman and 2 years later sent to branch as trainee manager in the carpet game. The manager there got me running his bets to the bookies and to say that got me started in what was to become the most expensive passtime in my life is a monumental understatement. Many times I have wished I had been better at wiring boxes. |
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Started work in 1962 as an Office Junior in London at £5 per week + Luncheon Vouchers worth 3s a day. Considered a good wage then for a 15 year old.
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£70 a week as a CNC machinist / Lathe turner apprentice making engine parts for aeroplanes and jets. £20 Cash in hand for working Saturday mornings 8am-12.30pm. Home shower,changed,straight to bookies to put football coupon on/few horses that would have been picked out on the tea break earlier that day then over to the boozer for 2 o clock. Few pints, few games of pool then sat down to watch Soccer Saturday and the racing.
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Started work in 1962 as an Office Junior in London at £5 per week + Luncheon Vouchers worth 3s a day. Considered a good wage then for a 15 year old.
WHERE DID YOU SPEND THOSE LUNCHEON VOUCHERS THO SPARROW . . . .  SINTHEURR PAYNES |
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Saved them up till Friday and had a slap up meal. Sorry to disappoint you, grimmy.
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sparrow, at one time I had a bit of a fiddle going in on with luncheon vouchers,
cannot remember for the life of me what it was now,any clues about this fiddle? |
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wee eck, counterfeit perhaps?
Trust you to find an angle  |
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67 Irish Pounds per week as a Trainee Accountant in 1984 after 4 years in Uni.(Summer jobs as scaffolder, painter and decorator, factory worker and barman had been far more rewarding)
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sparrow, many a true word spoken in jest, I was probably selling them for half
face value, where I got them from who knows, there were fiddles going on all the time in the East End in those days. Best of luck. |
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wee eck, if my Father was still around, he would certainly have known about it.
Best of luck to you too today. |