[jaysay]

When I left school in 62 I started as a happyrentice at R. P. Townley's on Manor Street Accy, my first weeks pay was £1. 12. shillings and 7 pence, I still have the wage slip somewhere, it was a big difference by 1980 when I was regularly earning between £250 and £300 a week considerably more than the average joiners wage at that time, mind you I was working 7 days a week