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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 22 September 2008, 19:12:38
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I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.
I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)
I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)
The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)
Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.
Do you remember your first wage packet? :y
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Yes .... would have been 1986 and was £27.50 :-/
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I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.
I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)
I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)
The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)
Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.
Do you remember your first wage packet? :y
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Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d! :( :( ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Do you remember your first wage packet? :y
I certainly do. Was 1977, as an apprentice was paid .50p an hour, grand total of £20
Mum got a fiver towards board then went to the supermarket and bought some honey roast ham, hazlet, bradckaes, lurpak, piccalli, jaffa cakes, Nutalla and some milk. All the stuff I liked but was allways told "No" to when I was a kid, then sat down and had one stupid picnic and make myself ill for the weekend. :-[ :-[
Was it really that long ago. ;D ;D :y
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I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.
I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)
I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)
The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)
Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.
Do you remember your first wage packet? :y
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Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d! :( :( ;D ;D ;D ;)
Not paid in groats then Lizzie. ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :y
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I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.
I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)
I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)
The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)
Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.
Do you remember your first wage packet? :y
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Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d! :( :( ;D ;D ;D ;)
Not paid in groats then Lizzie. ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :y
I can still remember the £-s-d Just :-/
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I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.
I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)
I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)
The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)
Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.
Do you remember your first wage packet? :y
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Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d! :( :( ;D ;D ;D ;)
Not paid in groats then Lizzie. ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :y
Not quite, but half pennies were still in circulation then!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) Mind you I do remeber farthings also being in circulation earlier in my life, and that is scary!! :o :o :o :o
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I started work in 1976. I remember it well as it was an incredibly hot summer that year.
I remember my first pay packet well. It amounted to the princely sum of £20, after stoppages I took home £16.84 ( what a crazy thing to remember)
I gave £4 to my mum for keep, and spent the other £12.84 down the pub ( yes it was easy to get served in the pubs underage in those days)
The rest of my money I would spend on packets of Players No.6 ciggies (oh you've got to 18 to smoke now)
Amount of money saved zero......nothing much changes really.
Do you remember your first wage packet? :y
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Yes I do; on 7th October 1968 my first weekly wage paid to me was £5 / 10s / 0d!, out of which my dear darling mother extracted £2 / 2s / 6d! :( :( ;D ;D ;D ;)
Not paid in groats then Lizzie. ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :y
I can still remember the £-s-d Just :-/
decimalisation came in 1971 ...I was eleven and remember all the old coinage well ......half crown 2/6 was my favourite. :y
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1984 - 40 pound a week packing meat at the abbatoir in leeds.
i give me mam a tenner a week board. i went out with my older brothers to the pub and got blasted on cider.haha it only cost a tenner. i remember putting my sister's eye make up on my top lip trying to give myself a moustache, it run down my face after a couple of pints.
i felt really grown up............ how wrong i was hahahahahah
lee
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Not the first pay-packet as I worked for the co-op for a while .. but I remember my first "pay parade" in the RAF very well .. December 1970 ....
Basic pay was 21 guineas a week ( £22 01s 00d or £22.05p in new money!). They took tax, food, accomodation charges and £1 POSB (Post Office Savings Book) off at source ..
so it was..
March forward, Salute, No, Rank, Name, sign for your cash... £5 07s 06d (£5.37.5p) to last the week.. payday was Thursday .. broke by Sunday on a good week, broke by Saturday night most weeks :y :y :y
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1976, apprentice coppersmith, basic pay 20 a week, 3 quid to mum, rest in pub. :)
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1977, a Saturday job in Fine Fare, Trowbridge. IIRC the princely sum of £1.41 was all mine. Mum let me off the rent as it was a part time job.
Alan Freeman's rock show was on in the warehouse in the afternoon. A perfect antidote to the crappy musak in the shop.
£1.41 doesn't sound much, but Watney's Red was 14p a pint! No problem being served in a pub aged 15 back then. Not in Trowbridge anyway.
Same as some of the others have said - it seems like yesterday.
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1975 1st week £17 , driving Morris 1000 van for a tailor in Leeds.
2nd week brakes failed down a hill to some traffic lights , went across at red , missed everything which wouldn't happen today.
I'd only been driving a couple of months , nearly gave up after that !!
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!956, aged 16, first monthly pay cheque from the Civil Service,
£12.12shillings, (3 guineas per week).
In those days I could go pubbing and clubbing (mainly Trad. Jazz), for the weekend and do it all on less than 10s. (50p), including beer and ciggies. Was also able to run an 8hp. Ford Popular, in black of course, until one of the halfshafts broke in two. £10 I paid for it. Was ripped off! ::)
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Started work in summer of 76 worked in aylesford paper mill with me grandad took home £28.50 . Gave me mum a fiver i think , put £4 in the tank of me Honda ss 50 (gutted all me mates had fizzies) 45mph flat out except down bluebell hill then i got it up to 60 > Oh happy days, hot sun cheap beer and no cares in the world only downside was i had to do shift work ,nights at 16 theres a culture shock :) :)
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Started work in summer of 76 worked in aylesford paper mill with me grandad took home £28.50 . Gave me mum a fiver i think , put £4 in the tank of me Honda ss 50 (gutted all me mates had fizzies) 45mph flat out except down bluebell hill then i got it up to 60 > Oh happy days, hot sun cheap beer and no cares in the world only downside was i had to do shift work ,nights at 16 theres a culture shock :) :)
you got it there, i used to walk home or night bus from a club at weekends. couldnt risk doing that today,
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Nlce to know someome else had a ss50 happy days.
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First proper wages in the RN Sept 1979 and as Entwood says ..... except I only had to rhyme off my 'ship's book number' - last half of my service number for which I recieved £18- :-?
I thought sod that I'm being paid straight into the bank, so I only had to do it one more time. ;)
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1983. £37.50 working a 5 n half day week at a builders merchants.
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Nlce to know someome else had a ss50 happy days.
I had one in 1973, the first of them, my mate had a fizzie. :y
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summer of 76 - same as optimist - wage was around 20 quid. working ina place that made school books,just what you want when youve just left school. ::)
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1972 left school in July aged 14years 11 months and 2 weeks. Was Joining the Navy in November, mother said get a Job or go back to school till November ::) ::) ::)
Walked up and down Stockton high street and ended up with a Job in Greenwoods, £8.00 per week, £3.00 board and the rest mine, to pay the bus to work and lunches. :y
In October 1972 my mate, who looked about 12, and myself went into a pub and did not get served, a few weeks later with the same mate but in NAVY Uniform we went into the same pub, the Landlord served us but said sit in the corner and this is the only one you are getting tonight. :)
It all seems like yesterday. :'(
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Nlce to know someome else had a ss50 happy days.
I had one in 1973, the first of them, my mate had a fizzie. :y
The SS50 was cool coz it had straight bars and a high level exhaust, unlike the fizzy...
(http://w2.bikepics.com/pics/2007%5C05%5C28%5Cbikepics-914146-full.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/HondaSS50.jpg)
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Nlce to know someome else had a ss50 happy days.
I had one in 1973, the first of them, my mate had a fizzie. :y
The SS50 was cool coz it had straight bars and a high level exhaust, unlike the fizzy...
(http://w2.bikepics.com/pics/2007%5C05%5C28%5Cbikepics-914146-full.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/HondaSS50.jpg)
Mine was a metalic green, take out the baffle and sand down the throttle needle to make it go a bit faster. :D
Feeling quite nostalgic now :'(
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1971 £8 per week as a coalminer £5 went to family (17 of us in the same house) left that in 1972 and run away to join Navy £7 per fortnight in training which went up to £13 on first draft at sea. Still sent home half my pay to Mum which I never stopped until six months after I got Married. Mum was not impressed.
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36 years later and they were a lot faster than my stepsons 50cc scooter. :y
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1971 £8 per week as a coalminer £5 went to family (17 of us in the same house) left that in 1972 and run away to join Navy £7 per fortnight in training which went up to £13 on first draft at sea. Still sent home half my pay to Mum which I never stopped until six months after I got Married. Mum was not impressed.
Did you go to Ganges :question
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1971 £8 per week as a coalminer £5 went to family (17 of us in the same house) left that in 1972 and run away to join Navy £7 per fortnight in training which went up to £13 on first draft at sea. Still sent home half my pay to Mum which I never stopped until six months after I got Married. Mum was not impressed.
Did you go to Ganges :question
No to old (sixteen and half) ended up in Anson block Raliegh. Seems to be a few ex-Matelots as members of the forum. :y
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1971 £8 per week as a coalminer £5 went to family (17 of us in the same house) left that in 1972 and run away to join Navy £7 per fortnight in training which went up to £13 on first draft at sea. Still sent home half my pay to Mum which I never stopped until six months after I got Married. Mum was not impressed.
Did you go to Ganges :question
No to old (sixteen and half) ended up in Anson block Raliegh. Seems to be a few ex-Matelots as members of the forum. :y
A six week wonder iirc..... ;D ;D ;D
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I can still remember the £-s-d Just :-/[/quote]
decimalisation came in 1971 ...I was eleven and remember all the old coinage well ......half crown 2/6 was my favourite. :y[/quote]
That happened just before I hatched :-/ - And i am trying to adjust to hitting 40 in a couple of years !!
I feel young again ;D
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First job in 1983 wages was around £60 after tax etc., and also got bonuses, started as a glasshouse helper at Caithness Glass in Perth :y
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Seem to recall it was about 680 quid in 1995 - 1 months wages.
Had many jobs before that...........but none an (official) full time job
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Started working for GPO telephones in 1969...7 Guineas a week.
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1988, 2 part time programming jobs when I was student.. approx .. 90 £, 200 £ per month.. >:(
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Started as a shop assistant, but I'm buggered if I can remember when or how much I earned. Think it was 1966, and probably about £5 a week. Posh shop though - Harrods. Only time I got a weekly wage (if I did).
I think my next job - computer operator - paid £650 p.a. - well pleased with that. Bought a Ford 100E and got a bedsit in Hampstead. :)
Never had to pay rent to my Mum, though. I went off to university and the whole family moved before I came back. :(
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....... I went off to university and the whole family moved before I came back. :(
Did they tell you ... or was it a 'surprise'? ;D ;D :y
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Started as a shop assistant, but I'm buggered if I can remember when or how much I earned. Think it was 1966, and probably about £5 a week. Posh shop though - Harrods. Only time I got a weekly wage (if I did).
I think my next job - computer operator - paid £650 p.a. - well pleased with that. Bought a Ford 100E and got a bedsit in Hampstead. :)
Never had to pay rent to my Mum, though. I went off to university and the whole family moved before I came back. :(
I bet that felt good at the time Jereboam; always wanted one of those as one boyfriend had one. Great cars, easy to work on and very nippy- well for the time! 8-) 8-) 8-)
However by the time I received my first company car Ford's were onto the Escort Mk1, but I still regretted missing out on my own Anglia. :D :y
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What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
Happy days. 8-)
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What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
Happy days. 8-)
Now I know who nicked my fuel!! :o :o :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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four groats, only joking... it was £30.50 for a 36 hour week at Key Markets (remember them) on the deli counter ! and the dole at that time was £26.50 whos the bleeding mug !! :(
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:-[ Under £2 quid in't mill (really) didnt stay long!! Sept 1959 kinell! ::)
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What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
Happy days. 8-)
Now I know who nicked my fuel!! :o :o :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
I might have done Lizzie but in the days of no security or locking fuel caps i don't think anyone ever noticed as we took so little from each car. Still wrong i know, but come up & punish me !!!!! 8-) :D ;D
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What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
Happy days. 8-)
Now I know who nicked my fuel!! :o :o :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
I might have done Lizzie but in the days of no security or locking fuel caps i don't think anyone ever noticed as we took so little from each car. Still wrong i know, but come up & punish me !!!!! 8-) :D ;D
If you are talking about the 70s, it was just not fuel that 'individuals' found easy to nick due to absent locks, but even things like Ford Escort's and Cortina's, with locks, but usually out of any four keys you tried that belonged to other Ford's, one would always fit yours!
I know, not because I even remotely thought of stealing cars let alone doing it, but because more than once I locked my keys inside my Ford, and within minutes I had always found someone who had one that fitted mine!! :o :o :o :o :o ;D ; ;D ;D)
PS What would you like your "punishment" to be? Whip & chains involved.............say no more before 2100!! ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
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What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
Happy days. 8-)
Now I know who nicked my fuel!! :o :o :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
I might have done Lizzie but in the days of no security or locking fuel caps i don't think anyone ever noticed as we took so little from each car. Still wrong i know, but come up & punish me !!!!! 8-) :D ;D
If you are talking about the 70s, it was just not fuel that 'individuals' found easy to nick due to absent locks, but even things like Ford Escort's and Cortina's, with locks, but usually out of any four keys you tried that belonged to other Ford's, one would always fit yours! I know, not because I even remotely thought of stealing cars let alone doing it, but because more than once I locked my keys inside my Ford, and within minutes I had always found someone who had one that fitted mine!! :o :o :o :o :o ;D ; ;D ;D)
PS What would you like your "punishment" to be? Whip & chains involved.............say no more before 2100!! ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
Quite right Lizzie.My friend had a MK3 2000GXL...white with a black vinyl roof on a M plate 1973/4.His key would open just about every other MK3 if memory serves. :y :y :y
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Same on many cars back then once keys got worn they nearly opened any of same model car :y
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What a laugh going through these posts. Left school & home in summer 1979, took home £26 a week working in a Roberts off licence in Worthing. My bedsit cost £14 a week but my parents paid £10 of it to get me started. Most of my money went in the Egremont pub @ the top of the road, bedsit @ the bottom, on sea front. We got 4 pints of Ben Trueman for a £ (note) 20 rothmans or picadilly were 40p or no 6 / 10 were 30p. By sunday i usually only had £3 left & the Fizzy (KWV 30P) was on reserve, so for fuel we used a beer can & a tube in the Guilbourne ctr multi storey & a huge plate of sausage & chips was 30p in the viking coffee bar just below.
Happy days. 8-)
Now I know who nicked my fuel!! :o :o :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
I might have done Lizzie but in the days of no security or locking fuel caps i don't think anyone ever noticed as we took so little from each car. Still wrong i know, but come up & punish me !!!!! 8-) :D ;D
If you are talking about the 70s, it was just not fuel that 'individuals' found easy to nick due to absent locks, but even things like Ford Escort's and Cortina's, with locks, but usually out of any four keys you tried that belonged to other Ford's, one would always fit yours! I know, not because I even remotely thought of stealing cars let alone doing it, but because more than once I locked my keys inside my Ford, and within minutes I had always found someone who had one that fitted mine!! :o :o :o :o :o ;D ; ;D ;D)
PS What would you like your "punishment" to be? Whip & chains involved.............say no more before 2100!! ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
Quite right Lizzie.My friend had a MK3 2000GXL...white with a black vinyl roof on a M plate 1973/4.His key would open just about every other MK3 if memory serves. :y :y :y
Another good example Optimist :y :y :y , and on Cortina Estates the rear tailgate was so easy to open with about any key you could find!!! :o
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First wage in 1986 was £27.30 take home pay ::)