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09-12-2010, 12:58
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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09-12-2010, 15:24
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
I guess Im glad I never did an apprenticeship then I was on £220 a week + bonus the day after I left school!
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09-12-2010, 18:36
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09-12-2010, 19:01
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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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.
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His wife liked a pint too did she Walter
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09-12-2010, 19:47
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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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.
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09-12-2010, 19:51
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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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.
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Nam rings a bell Walter, had he any kids, may have known them
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09-12-2010, 20:52
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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Nam rings a bell Walter, had he any kids, may have known them
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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.
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09-12-2010, 21:00
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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I guess Im glad I never did an apprenticeship then I was on £220 a week + bonus the day after I left school!
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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.
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09-12-2010, 22:29
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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Ya cashy and you got 10 pints of bitter to the pound in those days too
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Or nine pints and fish and six on the way home ... and do the technicolor yawn into the cut from the Whalley Rd. bridge
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09-12-2010, 22:38
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10-12-2010, 00:07
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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All that free ale.And you still moved to Canada.
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10-12-2010, 01:02
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All that free ale.And you still moved to Canada.
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Indeed .... at the request of my liver
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10-12-2010, 10:02
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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Or nine pints and fish and six on the way home ... and do the technicolor yawn into the cut from the Whalley Rd. bridge
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Those were the days Eric
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10-12-2010, 10:06
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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
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11-12-2010, 16:33
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Re: National Minimum Wage?
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I guess Im glad I never did an apprenticeship then I was on £220 a week + bonus the day after I left school!
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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
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