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£7.50 APPRENTICE BRICKLAYER SPUNKED IT ON 10P YANKYS ODDS ON FAVS
A few pence over £3.....then a few pence under (stamp went up)
app Panel Beater
app Panel Beater
£6 / week, Export Shipping Clerk, not much left after I paid my board.
£25 - stock contol-listening to racing results on radio 5 every hour
I WAS WONDERING WHEN WE GOT THE FIRST COLLEGE EDUCATED ONE .....A FKKKIN PONY
£4 10sh 6d
I used to give my Mum, half!
£1 17sh 6d
I never was very good at geography!
I used to give my Mum, half!
£1 17sh 6d
I never was very good at geography!
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.
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.
BLOODY ELL WEE-ECK DIDNT TAKE YOU LONG TO MAKE GENERAL
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 )
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 )
VUBIANT
I paid £40 my 1st car.........Standard 8..............& £40 for my boys 1st car.............from "the early learning center"
good thing about being in forces,if you blew your money,you always guaranteed 3 meals each day canteen
£3-12s-8p aug 1964 APPRENTICE TURNER IN ENGINEERING ,I HAD £1 GAVE MAM THE REST
£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.
6/- a week for my bus weekly ticket to work
£1 a week to my ma, the rest I just squandered.
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.
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.
£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
£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
£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.
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
I quit,and never worked for or barely spoke to the scrooge for the last 30 years
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.
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.
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.
£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.
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
WHERE DID YOU SPEND THOSE LUNCHEON VOUCHERS THO SPARROW . . . .
SINTHEURR PAYNES
Saved them up till Friday and had a slap up meal. Sorry to disappoint you, grimmy.
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?
cannot remember for the life of me what it was now,any clues about this fiddle?
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)
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.
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.
wee eck, if my Father was still around, he would certainly have known about it.
Best of luck to you too today.
Best of luck to you too today.
I used to give my LVs to a homeless woman. At least she used them, if only to free up the cash she begged to spend on booze. The LV company must have made a fortune from unused vouchers.
Alzheimers must be setting in as I really cannot remember my first wage, despite it being part of my job to fill the pay envelopes every Thursday.
Alzheimers must be setting in as I really cannot remember my first wage, despite it being part of my job to fill the pay envelopes every Thursday.
As the 60s boom got underway..........thats when they stopped paying Thurs in "cash"................things were on the up & construction tradesmen (for ex) would command enough to forget Friday.............& sometimes Monday.
My Dad built houses and did renovations and I always worked with him in the school holidays for my pocket money. If memory serves I got £10 a week helping carpenters aged 8, that would be 1975.
Erm, I didn't word that too well did I! I was 8 of course, by 13 I was first and second fixing on my own. I actually enjoyed it and always had money for the pictures and more importantly punting of course 
Sept 1976 £22 per week gross, approx. £17.80 net, plus 15 pence LV per day as Ladbrokes trainee settler credit betting.
1982 went for a job on a building site off scotty rd in lpool with my best mate , the forman said i dont know who to take on , heads or tails ...i called tails and won ..
spent the next 6 weeks as a dogsbody putting bets on for the gnarled Irish fellers , and only seeking refuge by going for a 40min sh1te in the corpy yard next door
1st weeks pay £32.70 , walked into town and blew the lot on a pair of Diadora trainers with a Gold stripe
thought I was clever 6 paypackets later and i jacked it in.
spent the next 6 weeks as a dogsbody putting bets on for the gnarled Irish fellers , and only seeking refuge by going for a 40min sh1te in the corpy yard next door
1st weeks pay £32.70 , walked into town and blew the lot on a pair of Diadora trainers with a Gold stripe
thought I was clever
6 paypackets later and i jacked it in.
diadora ed moses if i remember right,best trainers around then.top footy casual wear
must have bin a chav,had an acquascutem scarf as well.not to mention the sergio tacchini 
January 1982 on the Y. O. P. scheme I got £25.00 for a 40 hour week . The first week I was under strict orders to open a savings account. We were paid weekly on Thursday , by crossed cheque . After that it was £10.00 digs and fritter away the rest . At that time the cheapest pint in my hometown was 38p , for a pint of light/pale ale .
nice price North... 55p for a pint of lager for me , same year !
1966 six pounds ten shillings a week plus 3 shillings luncheon voucher.....articled clerk in city, half pint 11 pence pubs in Coleman Street and Bread Street.....given a bottle of sherry at Christmas
£27.50 Apprentice blacksmith. Gave my mam £15 out of my 1st wage as she was short but was down to £10 after that. Felt like a millionaire. 10p Yankees were the order of the day in those times.
roughly £94 about 10 years ago as an apprentice bricklayer. modern day slave labour.
turned out to be a waste of time after my 4 years jacked in it, now work inside warm and dry
turned out to be a waste of time after my 4 years jacked in it, now work inside warm and dry
£5 net bertrams edinburgh 1972 was there till maggie closed it in 1984
I earned £120 per week gutting fish at 14 when my dad earned £55...(average wage £50)....
Work out how old I an from that...
Happy Days and my mum wanted half and I ended up giving her £30 per week and was a typical teenager that had a strop on when I had to hand over 3 tenners from the brown envelope...
Happy Days even though we worked 60 hours plus per week....
Work out how old I an from that...
Happy Days and my mum wanted half and I ended up giving her £30 per week and was a typical teenager that had a strop on when I had to hand over 3 tenners from the brown envelope...
Happy Days even though we worked 60 hours plus per week....
homefortea, I'm 46 and I know you are much older than me. I'd say (with respect!) 62.
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