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Originally Posted by Benipete

I remember back in the 60's when I was an apprentice bricklayer,stonemason,drain layer flagger and kerber plasterer,slater and tiler and all round good egg and you where an apprentice wood butcher we all worked for virtually nothing.

Happy days!!

I started age 13 on a shilling an hour.

Ya those were the days Beni don't think my first wage was anything like that though, think I was on about 7p an hour, know it wasn't much, but that's the way it was in those days think a fully qualified joiner was only on about £7 or £8 a week