These are the WEEKLY rates of pay in shillings and pence. Pounds would have caused embarrassment. For the younger participants of this site at age 18, 114s 6d would be the equivalent of £5.75 today. A pint then of working class beer would have been around 7p in todays money. Basically a weeks wage at 18 years would purchase about 82 pints of standard Phipps beer. You could get around 4 gallons of petrol for a pound so without backing from other quarters car ownership was out of the question.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 08:26:36 +0000