National Minimum Wage? - Page 3

Retlaw · 09-12-2010, 12:58

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Originally Posted by flashy

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,

Retlaw

Lancashire Lassie · 09-12-2010, 15:24

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, 18:36

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

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

Retlaw

cheeky

jaysay · 09-12-2010, 19:01

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

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

Retlaw · 09-12-2010, 19:47

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Originally Posted by jaysay

His wife liked a pint too did she Walter

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, 19:51

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

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.

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

Retlaw · 09-12-2010, 20:52

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Originally Posted by jaysay

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, 21:00

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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lassie

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

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

Eric · 09-12-2010, 22:29

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Originally Posted by jaysay

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

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

Eric · 09-12-2010, 22:38

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

There were only three of us working in the malt storage; but we got the beer ration for 12 men

... 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.

Bernard Dawson · 10-12-2010, 00:07

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Originally Posted by Eric

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

There were only three of us working in the malt storage; but we got the beer ration for 12 men

... 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.

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

Eric · 10-12-2010, 01:02

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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

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

Indeed .... at the request of my liver

jaysay · 10-12-2010, 10:02

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Originally Posted by Eric

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

Those were the days Eric

jaysay · 10-12-2010, 10:06

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Originally Posted by Eric

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

There were only three of us working in the malt storage; but we got the beer ration for 12 men

... 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.

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, 16:33

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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lassie

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

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