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Originally Posted by 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.
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Yeh were on better money than me @ darwendosser in 63, we were on £2-15shillings a week, plus fish@chips fer 2 hrs overtime
at Slingers Butchers Load Of Mischief.
