Prices long ago
 

Just been clearing out some old bills from the spikes we keep them on under the stairs.
Rates Accrington Borough Council 110 quid
Norweb August 1969 4-16s-10d
Colour TV licience 12 quid.

Todays prices astronomical

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What year were the rates and TV licience?
If it was 1969 that would be £1534.20 and £167.37 today according to this inflation calculator Historic inflation calculator: how the value of money has changed since 1900 | This is Money

The leccy would be £95.42

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Those were the days, Retlaw!

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Hey Mr Retlaw, you still got them? The Museum may like them, pretty please

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Trouble with that is they have my name, address & account numbers on, that could lead to identity theft by some one who is a bit dodgy. I've chucked dozens in the waste paper sack.

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You could always stand Retlaw in a corner when the Museums open Atarah, I think he's just about in the old relic state now:D:D:D

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The state pension in 1971: £6 a week for a male and £4.50 for a female. 1st class postage stamp 3p and 2nd class 2.5p.

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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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According to that inflation calculator your £9 per week in 1965 would be £147.52 now

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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:eek: at Slingers Butchers Load Of Mischief.:D

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In 1959 I started at Mullards Simonstone as an office junior on £1.18s.6d - I paid 20p income tax every other week.

After a year, I joined the civil service and got an enormous rise to £5 a week - equal pay with men - it was one of the few occupations that had equal pay then.

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1967 my wife and I used to go out Saturday night 6 pints for me ,6 kings ales for her,fish and chips between us on way home and still have 6p change from £1.my wages were £7-18 shillings at chaseside engineering in Blackburn for a 5 and half day week 44 hours.happy days,i think petrol was about 3 s-8 pence a gallon.whats gone wrong.

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I left Slingers shop to work in the Mill and get a better wage.......but it was really hard work....I reckon I earned every penny of it....and the 6 til 2 shift nearly put my lights out....especially when I moved to Clayton and had to walk to Accrington every morning to get the 5.30 bus to Rawtenstall.

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If wages then were £8 pw and are now £320 pw that's 40 times more & pro rata you would have £40 to spend on your night out. I think you could get a few drinks and a fish supper for £40. :)

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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