Compo 10,326 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 This is my pay slip from Xmas 1967. The pit was Moorgreen, where I was doing basic training as an apprentice electrician. I had a tax rebate that week and actually took home £6/2/0. With apologies for the mouse damage Any more old pay packets out there? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 67, we'd just had the bad news that Clifton was closing in early 68...... Was transferred to Cotgrave for my final year of my apprenticeship...Don't have any old pay slips, but I do recall my gross pay when I came out of my time, it was just over 18 quid, that included shift allowance, face allowance, water and dirt money. I left in Nov 0f 68 to work for J.Jones Electric on Daleside Road for 18 quid a week, regular days in a clean workshop standing up instead of crawling all shift. Remember those old pay dockets???? About 8 X 12 inches??? All handwritten by the wages clerk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 I was at Moorgreen in 1970 doing basic training, the wage then was £8/2/6d Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 This makes me look like a mere youngster . They'd gone decimal by the time I started. September 1974, British Midland Airways at East Mids Airport. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 67 ???......i were 10....dint need folks up chimneys then so i dint have a wage slip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Commo 1,292 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 For some reason I have kept quite a few old pay slips, and my first pay was in October 1963. I was paid monthly, and my first month's money was £25:4:8 and taking into account the bounteous nature of Insurance companies, by June 1966 this had reached the dizzying heights of £33:3:8. I cannot trace any further pay slips for some years, but by the time I married in 1968 I was taking home about £49.00 per month and just did not know how to spend so much largesse! Don't have a scanner so can't show these, but quite surprising by today's standards that as I worked for a large national Company, all they showed was my name, Branch of Employer and the bank account to which the money was paid. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Ayupmeduks - I worked at J.Jones for a few months in late 1973. Did our paths cross, I wonder??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 No, I'd left a year or so before that, I was chasing money and left J.Jones to work for Arco in Beeston, they were hopeless, so went to Wilson Ford rewinds. Do you remember Frank Blair at J.Jones??? Old man Jones was a character, I remember him walking around the works picking scrap pieces of insulation up and placing them on the winders benches, never liked to see any wastage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Thinking back, I'd have been at British Gypsum at their mine at East Leake in 73.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Wasn't Frank Blair the foreman? I am hopeless with names. I recall a lad who was in the sealed know. Julian Peasvasna? Italian by parentage. He worked on the next bench to me. I used to like the big steam cleaner; it was great fun blowing all the dirt and grease from machines. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Frank Clough was the foreman in the fitting side when I worked there, Frank Blair was one of the top elec fitters, with Peter?? and another couple of top elec fitters... I still keep in touch with Frank, known him many years, his late Father was a conveyor attendant underground at Clifton.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 I remember Peter. I was trying to think of his name but couldn't. He was a really nice bloke and helped me settle in after leaving the RAF. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Gets a bit hard recalling all the names from that far back.... I remember the foremans name it was the same time his namesake was Manager of Nottm Forest... I started with J.Jones at the old Daleside works, same side just down the road a short distance. At that time the rewind department was on Canal Street. Everything moved into the "new" building just before Christmas of 68... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 I started on £4 8s a week on 21 Sep 1959 at NCB No.6 Area Laboratories at Cinderhill as Grade STO 4. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 Started in August 1966 as a temporary civil servant on £6-17-6d a week (£6-7-6d after stoppages). Went permanent in 1967 on a salary of £535 per year. Moved to BR Derby Carriage Works as a clerk on £585 per year (but with free travel) exactly 45 years ago (1 April 1968). Railway pay scales were revised about 6 months later, and this put me on £680, and then got another pay rise on the anniversary of my starting day. So from leaving the civil service on 29 March 1968 to 1 April 1969 I had three pay rises totalling 40%. Never regretted the move and stayed with the railway workshops in their various guises and ownership until I took early retirement just coming up to 10 years ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 I started on £4 8s a week on 21 Sep 1959 at NCB No.6 Area Laboratories at Cinderhill as Grade STO 4. I went for my NCB chest Xray there in '67 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted April 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 \snip\ Railway pay scales were revised about 6 months later, and this put me on £680, and then got another pay rise on the anniversary of my starting day.\snip\ Looks like I should have gone to the railways when they offered me a job in 1969! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 I went for my NCB chest Xray there in '67 Not quite Compo, the medical place was down the road nearer to Bulwell the other side of the GNR (red brick) railway bridge. I went there as well. The labs were behind the big house opposite Bagnall Lane, much closer to Babbington colliery. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted April 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 I stand corrected. I must be going senile! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fch782c 144 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Hi Stephen Ford That bought back a few memories I worked as a contract draughtsman in 1986 and was based in the vast BR drawing office on St Peters street derby for about. A year Fch782c Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Compo, I was seven months off full elecs pay, wished I'd kept a few old pay dockets....I think by Xmas 67 all our overtime had been chopped, so just on basic pay, plus shift/face/water and dirt money. Probably around 16 quid gross. Still more than my Dad was earning for his basic 40 hours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Hi fch782c, I was also at St Peter House in 1986 - in public affairs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted April 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Compo, I was seven months off full elecs pay, wished I'd kept a few old pay dockets....I think by Xmas 67 all our overtime had been chopped, so just on basic pay, plus shift/face/water and dirt money. Probably around 16 quid gross. Still more than my Dad was earning for his basic 40 hours. i was in my third year of apprenticehsip and went from £6 a week in the NCB to £18 per week as a training technician in the RAF. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 I started work in 63 as an apprentice electrician with Taggs of Daybrook. Made an agreement with my mum that I could pay two pounds ten shillings a week board and keep the rest. After my first week of running around like a blue ar*ed fly I got my first pay packet of two pounds fifteen shillings ! remember chucking the lot at my mum and feeling very sorry for myself, but she came in my room and gave me the lot back, as she felt so sorry for me. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 This is my pay slip from Xmas 1967. The pit was Moorgreen, where I was doing basic training as an apprentice electrician. I had a tax rebate that week and actually took home £6/2/0. With apologies for the mouse damage Any more old pay packets out there? Not the tax man nibbling at your wages then Compo? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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