awoollen   10 #49 Posted October 25, 2009 are you our oldest one yet awoollen ? 19/11 what would that be in todays money i do not know how mutch its worth today but i just keep plodding along born in 1930 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Mike17 Â Â 10 #50 Posted October 25, 2009 1959 and a wage of 2 pounds 1 shilling and 4 pence for a 48 hour week. I was an engineering apprentice working for Fred Camm Engineers, 5 John Street. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
j4yc   10 #51 Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) Mine was £2-8- 2p per wk in 1959 take home pay after deductions £1-19s. Edited October 26, 2009 by j4yc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Puffin4 Â Â 10 #52 Posted October 25, 2009 In 1956, I was articled to a chartered accountant and received the fantastic remuneration of 12 guineas per month, before stoppages. This included Saturday mornings. My boss told me that I should consider myself fortunate as some pupils still had to pay for their tuition. Â Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
oap1942 Â Â 10 #53 Posted October 25, 2009 My dad was a setter and sharpener in the saw department at FBT at that time, i was apprentice fitter,i stuck it for 12mnths Dad stayed for years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
deedar   10 #54 Posted October 25, 2009 £14 a week in 1976 at Centaur Cast Alloys ont Parkway, Straighten and Gauge department making sure the metal hip joints and DC10 engine parts were straight and within tolerance. A pint was 14p, 10 no.6 were 9p, bus fare was 2p and me Mam got the rest. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
xfox3x   10 #55 Posted October 25, 2009 £7 per week at Cole Brothers 1970. My sister started the same year for £5 as an office junior and other friends also earned £5 as shop assistants. I wasn't allowed to keep more money than my sister and was made to pay £2 extra board. Cue moody and magnificent teenage tantrums of which my parents took not a jot of notice! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
MARY POPPINS   10 #56 Posted October 25, 2009 My first wage in 1970 as a G.P.O telephonist was £8, can still remember the thrill of queing up, and having that crinkly envelope handed to me.  My mum decided it was £2 for her, £2 for me, for bus fares etc, £2 for clothes and £2 to save, wow it sure did go a long way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Nodens   10 #57 Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) I started work as an engineering apprentice at English Steel Corporation (latterly British Steel Corporation}, at the age of 15, in August 1963 when I was paid the princely sum of £2-15s-0d per week (£2.75p). We worked a 42 hour week.  I gave my mother £1 per week, 15 shillings went on bus fares and sandwiches and I had a whole £1 to myself. In those days I spent it on football matches 2 shillings (10p) or a pop record (45 rpm), they were 6s 8d (abt 33p)   My pay rose by £1 per week every birthday until my 21st in June 1969 when I was paid £28 per week - so much for the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Edited October 25, 2009 by Nodens Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
leahiz   10 #58 Posted October 25, 2009 i thought £3.55 was bad 5years ago when i was 16 lol.. the chequers pub at coal-aston Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
catkins   10 #59 Posted October 25, 2009 apprentice at firth brown 17/9 per week for 6 months then 21 shillingsup to 18 yrs old then i went in the army and took a pay cut out of which we had to buy brasso polish and blanco the good old days we were screwed getting shot at for about a quid in korea what a laugh. wouldnt have missed it for the world trust worthy mates to cover your back and get you out of the muck. long lasting friends times to treasure lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
me-and-pippo   12 #60 Posted October 25, 2009 My first job in 1970, a farm labourer @ £5:00 a week. Mucked out pigs, chickens & dog kennels, also painted all the woodwork on the farm with creosote and tar. Must have smelt like a walking farmyard when I caught the bus back home, happy days.  m&p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...