My monthly salary was a grand £62.50 at the time and after paying rent and board was even less. However a beer was 11d and a box of 30 cigarettes about 1/6d. A night out with steak and chips and couple of beers would be under £5!
Wow, I started my apprenticeship at precisely a round £3 a week, just £12 for the February, so, a wage 5 times that was way beyond any dream. Somehow, I managed, [ only a push-bike then] but it probably was the incentive to do all the night schooling I could and lead ultimately to way better things.
We lived a very different life in the 50's. (Blimey, that's 70 years ago!)
The leisure industry had barely been invented. Most people could only afford to live and get by, by being frugal. TV was a novelty, and we had two TV's in our village, and my parents bought the third one to watch the Coronation. The 14" KB TV cost £148 which could have bought roughly 3,300 Litres of petrol.
Speaking of wages, 8 years later when I was 15, I started my apprenticeship at £2.0s.09d a week.
The leisure industry had barely been invented. Most people could only afford to live and get by, by being frugal. TV was a novelty, and we had two TV's in our village, and my parents bought the third one to watch the Coronation. The 14" KB TV cost £148 which could have bought roughly 3,300 Litres of petrol.
Speaking of wages, 8 years later when I was 15, I started my apprenticeship at £2.0s.09d a week.
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Was the TVone with what looked like almost a round hole in the middle of the cabinet? At least with all the valves it kept the room warm! LOL!
We never had TV until I moved up to Rhodesia in 1968. There we were able to watch a lot of main streams programs with Star Trek being one of the favourites. Soaps were only on at 10pm.
South Africa only got TV in 1975. It was hilarious watching the Sweeny in Afrikaans. In SA to begin with we only had two hours of English and then two hours of Afrikaans. This used to alternate every night which language was first to come on.
The TV was a Rose wood floor standing cabinet with a pair of doors. The 14" screen seemed big to us because the only TV we'd seen before then belonged to a neighbour, and it was a 12" screen which we saw most days to watch children's TV (I think it was just half an hour of Andy Pandy, or Muffin the Mule, both of which were string puppets).
Our first family TV was a 12”Bush in a beautiful mahogany cabinet. 405 lines ITV or BBC changed at the rear by a push pull knob. Took ages to warm up. Great valves! Bush was a market U.K. leader in Its day.
ITV stared in 1955 but perhaps the country wide roll out was later. We had the first set in the street. Full cabinet 12 inch. It was BBC only if I remember. Hell of a job getting a picture. I have early memories of about a dozen kids squashing into our living room to goggle in wonderment at it. I guess that would have been around 1956.
My first wage was 1/6 per hour. 2nd job the employer boasted that he could do better than that. 1/6 halfpenny!
John
My first wage was 1/6 per hour. 2nd job the employer boasted that he could do better than that. 1/6 halfpenny!
John
Can we recognise you🤪🤪Taking the wife to an expensive place to eat tonight as the local BP station are doing a special!
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My wife passed a Esso station diesel £1 .74
unleaded £1.64
So prices are on the up in North Lincolnshire but i will be still going away with the caravan
unleaded £1.64
So prices are on the up in North Lincolnshire but i will be still going away with the caravan
In Cirencester and Tetbury Tesco own brand diesel was 170.9 but both stores were out of diesel. E10 regular was 160.9 and bargain of bargains 99 RON E5 premium was only 170.9. Near my BIL in Coventry diesel was 189.9 at his local BP. Suffice to say in all of the above stations there were no queues at the pumps. Noticeably on the drive there and back on the Fosse traffic seemed to be flowing steadily and content to just roll along rather than having overtakers stuffed up your rear end.My wife passed a Esso station diesel £1 .74
unleaded £1.64
So prices are on the up in North Lincolnshire but i will be still going away with the caravan
Some places diesel and petrol have gone up i have a friend that lives near Perth he was out and about at the local Coop diesel £1.60 in the morning in the afternoon £1.66 but he filled his Range Rover some days ago it was £1.54
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Just spoken with a mate of mine down near to Bristol, and he has seen Diesel fuel,selling for £2.05. Ouch.
Most places on the Scottish Borders are £1.69. Two things puzzle me.
Barrel prices are decreasing ,allegedly.
HMG is rubbing their hands still taking 53% of the charge to the consumer 🤬
Barrel prices are decreasing ,allegedly.
HMG is rubbing their hands still taking 53% of the charge to the consumer 🤬
Couple of days ago on Skye deisel was 170.9 and petrol 158.9.
My daughter in New Zealand says prices over there have also rocketed but in the last few days the government cut the duty by 25c per litre - still expensive though.
My daughter in New Zealand says prices over there have also rocketed but in the last few days the government cut the duty by 25c per litre - still expensive though.
The higher the cost of a barrel the more duty and VAT is paid into HMG coffers as after all they have to recoup the outlay for Covid 19.
Listening to that LBC this morning they are scare mongering about an imminent recession with diesel being as much as £3.00 a litre ... Over 12 squid a gallon .... Now that will limit my touring ... Nothing like starting your Tuesday on a positive note....
GAS ...
.... Now that will limit my touring ... Nothing like starting your Tuesday on a positive note....GAS ...
We would still go away but shorter distance but it still different scenery than homeListening to that LBC this morning they are scare mongering about an imminent recession with diesel being as much as £3.00 a litre ... Over 12 squid a gallon
GAS ...
Oil prices do seem to be dropping back a bit so the £3 litre looks unlikely. Still rather higher then when I used to borrow my dads car in the 1960's and I got change out of ten shillings for two gallons. There again I started work on £360 a year which would go nowhere now.
I started at £1.50 (30 bob) rising to £3 before getting free trip to Suez for two years. Petrol I think was 13p in todays language. A friend had ordered a Ford prefect which he said there was a eighteen month wait?. I bought a Hillman Minx three years old for £600. Do not remember talking about prices at all .
Will fuel prices limit your touring.??
No, ( ££ --- Yer can't take it with you!) but health will.
No, ( ££ --- Yer can't take it with you!) but health will.
As far as I know the governments take of fuel prices is 58 pence per litre regardless of the final selling price, its only the VAT element that follows the retail price, so the total take is a variable percentage .
Agree on 58 p but as at now today, HMG overall is taking 53%. That will rise or fall as barrel cost vary.
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