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Retlaw

09-12-2010 11:58

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Originally Posted by flashy (Post 867632)

god help us all if they decide we are having the Euro

i'm going out....i can't cope with all this confusion

Now now Flashy your gona have a euro moment if your not carefull.Your brain cell could overload, :D:D:D:D

Retlaw

Lancashire Lassie

09-12-2010 14:24

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I guess Im glad I never did an apprenticeship then I was on £220 a week + bonus the day after I left school!

flashy

09-12-2010 17:36

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Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 867659)

Now now Flashy your gona have a euro moment if your not carefull.Your brain cell could overload, :D:D:D:D

Retlaw

cheeky

jaysay

09-12-2010 18:01

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Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 867656)

Our gaffer at Lang Bridges used to reckon his wage up in pints, so many for him, and so many for the wife.

Retlaw.

His wife liked a pint too did she Walter:D:D:D:D

Retlaw

09-12-2010 18:47

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 867713)

His wife liked a pint too did she Walter:D:D:D:D

Nay Jay, thad were hur shur furt thouse keepin, a pound note were 20 pints. He reckoned all things monetary in pints which like tha said were a shilling.

May be you knew him, he live up Ossy, name of Billy Wilcox, foreman Pattern Maker at Lang Bridges.

Retlaw.

jaysay

09-12-2010 18:51

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Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 867730)

Nam rings a bell Walter, had he any kids, may have known them

Retlaw

09-12-2010 19:52

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 867733)

Nam rings a bell Walter, had he any kids, may have known them

Yes he had a daughter, Owd Wilcox lived somewhere in the Hornby St area, used to come to work on a push bike, one day I got off the bus at the junction of Fairfield St and Exchange St, and Wilcox wre riding along Fairfield St from Ossy, this were when it was a dirt road,
the daft owd beggar were weaving round the lamp posts, when he hit a rut and went over the handle bars, rammed his billycock down to his eyes, he were livid when he saw me stood there laughing me head off, he tried to make my life a misery for the rest of the day, always trying to fault my work, and when he couldn't he just got madder.

Retlaw.

Neil	09-12-2010 20:00

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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lassie (Post 867667)

I guess Im glad I never did an apprenticeship then I was on £220 a week + bonus the day after I left school!

I wont tell you what I was on when you left school it might upset you :p:D

Then again you are a couple of years younger than me.

Eric	09-12-2010 21:29

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 867579)

Ya cashy and you got 10 pints of bitter to the pound in those days too:D

Or nine pints and fish and six on the way home ... and do the technicolor yawn into the cut from the Whalley Rd. bridge:eek::D

Eric	09-12-2010 21:38

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Worked one summer at Dutton's for about eight quid a week ... that would be in '63. But we got a healthy beer ration twice a day ... pi$$ed as a rat every day:thepint: There were only three of us working in the malt storage; but we got the beer ration for 12 men:eek: ... part of a union agreement when the malt store was automated ... and the charge hand was the only tea-total Irishman I ever met: Tommy O'Rourke. So that was a twelve man beer allowance for just two guys.:alright::alright::alright:

Bernard Dawson

09-12-2010 23:07

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 867770)

All that free ale.And you still moved to Canada.

Eric	10-12-2010 00:02

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson (Post 867775)

All that free ale.And you still moved to Canada.

Indeed .... at the request of my liver:D

jaysay

10-12-2010 09:02

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 867768)

Or nine pints and fish and six on the way home ... and do the technicolor yawn into the cut from the Whalley Rd. bridge:eek::D

Those were the days Eric:D

jaysay

10-12-2010 09:06

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 867770)

Worked one summer at Duttons for about eight quid a week ... that would be in '63. But we got a healthy beer ration twice a day ... pi$$ed as a rat every day:thepint: There were only three of us working in the malt storage; but we got the beer ration for 12 men:eek: ... part of a union agreement when the malt store was automated ... and the charge hand was the only tea-total Irishman I ever met: Tommy O'Rourke. So that was a twelve man beer allowance for just two guys.:alright::alright::alright:

I worked on contract in the Lions brewing room back in the seventies, used to crease me every lunchtime when there was a raging argument about who's turn it was to go and get the Jazz, the good thing was they allowed us 2 pints a day whilst working there:):):)

Boeing Guy

11-12-2010 15:33

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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lassie http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...s/viewpost.gif
I guess Im glad I never did an apprenticeship then I was on £220 a week + bonus the day after I left school!

It could be seen as rather vulgar to post ones salary on here.
Unless this is a, I earn more than you argument:D:D

To paraphrase Jimmy Carr £220 per week.... thats more than I earn in a day:hothothot:hothothot

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