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I remember paying 1/8 (one shilling 8d) around 9p in todays currency) in 1969.

 

I'd love to work out how much a pint cost then compared to an average wage of that time, and do the same in todays market. Can we work out if beer is dearer now than it was years ago, compared to the average wage of course.

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Like most drugs my first hit was free. i dont know how much was paid for it.

 

The first pint i bought myself back in 1999 at the age of twelve was about £1.30

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I remember paying 1/8 (one shilling 8d) around 9p in todays currency) in 1969.

 

I'd love to work out how much a pint cost then compared to an average wage of that time, and do the same in todays market. Can we work out if beer is dearer now than it was years ago, compared to the average wage of course.

Seem to remember 1'/11d (one shilling and eleven pence) in 1971.

That's a huge inflation in price 3d over two years :hihi: compared to your 1'/8d in 1969.

And i was under the drinking age, seventeen i think. :D

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I remember my first beer 5 years ago its cost me 0 pence. Landlord gave it me free :D for my b-day lol

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My first legal pint was £1.40 for a pint of Whitbread Trophy Bitter in the Sportsman.

 

Prior to that I used to pay £1.30 a pint for Shandies in the working men's club on Netherthorpe.

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56p in The Cricket Inn, which is now Home Bargains off the parkway.

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12p at the top Red Lion @ Grenoside

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I remember paying 1/8 (one shilling 8d) around 9p in todays currency) in 1969.

 

I'd love to work out how much a pint cost then compared to an average wage of that time, and do the same in todays market. Can we work out if beer is dearer now than it was years ago, compared to the average wage of course.

 

If you have a moment have a look at this thread that I did last year to work out the difference in house prices. There are loads of 'old' pricings in there.

 

In answer to the original question, I think about £1.20. (1990)

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my first pint cost me 70p in the Howard Hotel, me and two mates would go out on a saturday night with 6 quid, have 7 pints, bus fare home and a bag of chips :)

 

eee them were t'days!

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you can still get a decent pint of lager in a pub for £1.53.

 

i wonder who paid over and under the odds back in't day.

 

come sunday i abandon my participation in such venues

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Mine was £1 in the turf at handsworth mind you it was happy hour

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My first legal pint was in "The Red Grouse" at Stocksbridge and it was 31p. Probably around 1979.

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