[Margaret Pilkington]

These prices all seem cheap in comparison to the prices of today......my wage in 1963 was three pound ten and sixpence......I was sixteen and worked in a shop I got a half day on a Wednesday and worked all day Saturday.
I went to work in a mill on double day shift when I was 18 and for shiftwork I received nine pounds per week as a battery filler......When I got my own set of looms - 16 of them, my wage went up to an average of twelve pounds ten shillings.