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Post by spanker on Apr 3, 2012 14:10:46 GMT -5
July 1975 i was paid handsomely £19 for the week at 16 was brilliant and i was determined to show off in Chesterfield with me mates that weekend,hair cut , it as the wedge cut and over one eye, oxford bags and £5 to me mum board then off to Mr.Sixes for some Gary Glitter shoes with great big heals and platforn soles in black and silver with a silver star on the toes i looked the dogs bollox.
Then off to the Adam and Eve night club to trip the light fantastic and pull a few birds (how could i fail)
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Post by John on Apr 3, 2012 14:44:57 GMT -5
I left an electrical contractor and got an apprenticeship with the NCB in 1964, I was on about 2 pounds 10 shillings a week and went up to around 8 quid a week starting pay with the NCB. Back then we had 6 monthly pay rises for the first couple of years, then annual until we came out of our time.
I completed the apprenticeship in late 1968, that brought us in line with the new 4 year apprenticeships, had about three months docked off our time to serve...
Finished up on 18 quid a week on 3 shifts.. Not long after, I left to work in outside industry on regular days and got paid 18 quid a week with far better conditions, and we used to sit in the sun outside in summer at snap time....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2012 13:19:14 GMT -5
January 1974 I got £13, that lasted a few weeks but then the tax man got his act together and it went down considerably, still it was still £4 a week more than my mates in the local HM dockyard.
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Post by Sam from Kent on Apr 10, 2012 14:16:06 GMT -5
My first pay was £6.7.6p Six pounds seven shillings and six pence! in 1967
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Post by John on Apr 11, 2012 7:13:13 GMT -5
I think my starting pay with an electrical contractor at age 15 in 1962, was about one pound thirteen shillings and a couple of pennies.
I know I was earning more than my Dad at 20 years of age in my last year of apprenticeship with the NCB, I think he was a bit jealous too!! I had an abundance of overtime and I was earning over 20 quid a week gross....
I often wonder what I did with it all...
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Post by anthonygos on Jun 2, 2012 5:17:12 GMT -5
My first wage was £7 a week back in the 70's, and that's for a 7 day week, bagging coal, £5 went to my mum and the two was for me to get to and from work and my food for the next week.
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Post by ken on Jun 4, 2012 18:25:27 GMT -5
I started about 1954 and got about 3 Pounds a week. Apprentices in outside industry got half that and had to pay their busfares to work. I walked to work. I got a job on the screens until the next apprentice intake came up. What a job. Picking stones from coal all shift. The dust and the NOISE were incredible. No dust masks or ear protection those days.
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