OT - guess the year

[Dave Liquorice]

The Street.

[Tim Lamb]

My first week paid £4-8s-0d. and petrol was 4s-6d per gallon! Mind you, I remember farthings going out of circulation:-)

regards

[The Natural Philosopher]

That's a financial journal innit?

[The Other Mike]

So even then the Daily Mail couldn't get its facts right.

[Mark]

Ha, well in my defense it is 40 years since i last played with LSD :(

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[Hugh - Was Invisible]

I remember the yoghurt at uni going from 11d to 11p until someone pointed it out.

[charles]

I remember them in circulation. I've got a collection of 120 of the little beasts! I can remember my father paying 2/9d a gallon for petrol - I paid 4/11d when I first had a car.

[Moonraker]

When I joined the RAF as an Aircraft Apprentice we were paid 12s 6d a week, 4s 6d going into compulsory savings. On the rest we had to buy Brasso, boot polish (our 2 biggest expenses) toothpaste soap and the odd bun and cup of tea.

[Moonraker]

When I joined the RAF as an Aircraft Apprentice we were paid 12s 6d a week, 4s 6d going into compulsory savings. On the rest we had to buy Brasso, boot polish (our 2 biggest expenses) toothpaste soap and the odd bun and cup of tea.

[Moonraker]

Sorry about the double post, a hiccup in my news server.

[Tony Bryer]

Much the same for me: £6 a week plus commission (1 old penny in the pound) selling shoes at Hounslow Coop as a 15-year old, summer holiday 1968. And that was better than most retail jobs because the Coop was unionised. Lovely boss, the inappropriate named Mr Sainsbury. When I returned from spending my entire lunch hour going to look at some new buses at Hounslow garage, he insisted I went up to the staff canteen and had a proper lunch before resuming work. In contrast, at Dixons, where I worked the follow summer, on Thursdays, delivery day, you weren't allowed to take your lunch break until the lorry had been and gone. One day lunch was at

4.00p.m.!

[Tony Bryer]

That implies that Mail journalists have some conception of 'facts'

[tony sayer]

In article , Tim Lamb scribeth thus

Vaguely remember petrol at 1s 3d a gallon can't remember the year tho;!...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Me too..that would be the fifties sometime.

or 1'/3d as I think we used to write it.

[whisky-dave]

I cheated a little by googling a line (not the cocaine type)

The headline was about fat cats and their pay (nothing much

[Jules Richardson]

I'm glad they don't make toothpaste soap any more.

(JOOI did they check that you wre buying genuine products, or was there a whole market in homebrew mixtures that did the same job?)

[Roger Chapman]

1931 (or earlier)?

[polygonum]

ave

And I actually met the man who sculpted the wren on the farthings.

[root]

'm shocked :)

[Bob Martin]

Yes, I paid 4/11 in 1958 and Redex was a penny a shot.