Mrs Woo has just purchased this birthday card for her brother and it was interesting to read,so I thought I would share it with you
Well I was three then , Beer was 6.25p a pint . twelve years later when I started drinking (I know) I can remember it at around 9 p for bitter and 12.5p for the keg beers like Double Diamond / Watneys Red barrel, they tasted awful but it was the trend . Packet of 20 fags No 6 was 15p. So you could have a great night for £1 !!! (If you had a £1 )
Its all relative Zigs, - Look at the price of a raincoat £5 then - (Half the average wage) - would you pay £250 for a raincoat now? Bottle of Scotch £1.16s (In today money more like £40.00) a-a For all members here is an interesting website : http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/
I was six then and living on Long Island, New York. Our father worked in the aerospace industry and Sis and I went to a private Catholic Girls' School so I guess we were comfortably off. It was then a shock when our mother died in 1956 and in 1957 we were shipped back to England and things were tight there ... except for the loving ... and we had tons of that which was far better than money could buy ...
Watneys Red Barrel I met Aunt Sally in '74. I used to be able to get 2 drinks for less than 50p at our 'courtin' pub
1954, I used to charge 6d (2.5p) to wash a car and used to sell large cauliflowers for 1/6d (7.5p). I also sold secondhand juke b0x records for 6d and the middles for 1d. According to the chart posted by Alex that would be currently equivalent to 60p for the car wash and record, and £1.80 for the cauli. The records were sold without the middles as that's how they came straight from the juke box. Some people had record players that had a piece of plastic that could be fixed into the turntable to take the record. Otherwise they needed to buy the centre (it clipped into the record). By 1958 the 'pop' records had really made the 45rpm very popular and they came out in all different colours. I've still got some of them in my collection.
