Prices long ago

[Aussie Irene]

Originally Posted by 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

Jaysay, my hubby got 28 shillings for 46.5hrs when he started there in 1948. It had'nt gone up much in 14 years when you started in 62. He has never forgotten that, because when he went into the army in 1953 he went back to 28 shillings