Prices long ago

Retlaw · 03-09-2013, 14:04

Just been clearing out some old bills from the spikes we keep them on under the stairs.
Rates Accrington Borough Council 110 quid
Norweb August 1969 4-16s-10d
Colour TV licience 12 quid.

Todays prices astronomical

Neil · 03-09-2013, 17:40

What year were the rates and TV licience?
If it was 1969 that would be £1534.20 and £167.37 today according to this inflation calculator Historic inflation calculator: how the value of money has changed since 1900 | This is Money

The leccy would be £95.42

Judith Addison · 06-09-2013, 21:12

Those were the days, Retlaw!

Atarah · 07-09-2013, 08:37

Hey Mr Retlaw, you still got them? The Museum may like them, pretty please

Retlaw · 07-09-2013, 12:33

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Originally Posted by Atarah

Hey Mr Retlaw, you still got them? The Museum may like them, pretty please

Trouble with that is they have my name, address & account numbers on, that could lead to identity theft by some one who is a bit dodgy. I've chucked dozens in the waste paper sack.

jaysay · 07-09-2013, 13:16

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Originally Posted by Atarah

Hey Mr Retlaw, you still got them? The Museum may like them, pretty please

You could always stand Retlaw in a corner when the Museums open Atarah, I think he's just about in the old relic state now

Michael1954 · 07-09-2013, 15:13

The state pension in 1971: £6 a week for a male and £4.50 for a female. 1st class postage stamp 3p and 2nd class 2.5p.

Margaret Pilkington · 07-09-2013, 18:29

These prices all seem cheap in comparison to the prices of today......my wage in 1963 was three pound ten and sixpence......I was sixteen and worked in a shop I got a half day on a Wednesday and worked all day Saturday.
I went to work in a mill on double day shift when I was 18 and for shiftwork I received nine pounds per week as a battery filler......When I got my own set of looms - 16 of them, my wage went up to an average of twelve pounds ten shillings.

Neil · 08-09-2013, 19:56

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

These prices all seem cheap in comparison to the prices of today......my wage in 1963 was three pound ten and sixpence......I was sixteen and worked in a shop I got a half day on a Wednesday and worked all day Saturday.
I went to work in a mill on double day shift when I was 18 and for shiftwork I received nine pounds per week as a battery filler......When I got my own set of looms - 16 of them, my wage went up to an average of twelve pounds ten shillings.

According to that inflation calculator your £9 per week in 1965 would be £147.52 now

cashman · 08-09-2013, 20:02

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

These prices all seem cheap in comparison to the prices of today......my wage in 1963 was three pound ten and sixpence......I was sixteen and worked in a shop I got a half day on a Wednesday and worked all day Saturday.
I went to work in a mill on double day shift when I was 18 and for shiftwork I received nine pounds per week as a battery filler......When I got my own set of looms - 16 of them, my wage went up to an average of twelve pounds ten shillings.

Yeh were on better money than me @ darwendosser in 63, we were on £2-15shillings a week, plus fish@chips fer 2 hrs overtime

at Slingers Butchers Load Of Mischief.

MargaretR · 08-09-2013, 21:28

In 1959 I started at Mullards Simonstone as an office junior on £1.18s.6d - I paid 20p income tax every other week.

After a year, I joined the civil service and got an enormous rise to £5 a week - equal pay with men - it was one of the few occupations that had equal pay then.

jack preston · 08-09-2013, 21:54

1967 my wife and I used to go out Saturday night 6 pints for me ,6 kings ales for her,fish and chips between us on way home and still have 6p change from £1.my wages were £7-18 shillings at chaseside engineering in Blackburn for a 5 and half day week 44 hours.happy days,i think petrol was about 3 s-8 pence a gallon.whats gone wrong.

Margaret Pilkington · 09-09-2013, 06:44

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Originally Posted by cashman

Yeh were on better money than me @ darwendosser in 63, we were on £2-15shillings a week, plus fish@chips fer 2 hrs overtime

at Slingers Butchers Load Of Mischief.

I left Slingers shop to work in the Mill and get a better wage.......but it was really hard work....I reckon I earned every penny of it....and the 6 til 2 shift nearly put my lights out....especially when I moved to Clayton and had to walk to Accrington every morning to get the 5.30 bus to Rawtenstall.

davebtelford · 09-09-2013, 08:42

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Originally Posted by jack preston

1967 my wife and I used to go out Saturday night 6 pints for me ,6 kings ales for her,fish and chips between us on way home and still have 6p change from £1.my wages were £7-18 shillings at chaseside engineering in Blackburn for a 5 and half day week 44 hours.happy days,i think petrol was about 3 s-8 pence a gallon.whats gone wrong.

If wages then were £8 pw and are now £320 pw that's 40 times more & pro rata you would have £40 to spend on your night out. I think you could get a few drinks and a fish supper for £40.

jaysay · 09-09-2013, 17:20

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