PeverilPeril 3,311 Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 1967 i was on a thousand a year + car and expenses. However in 1953 I started at the Gun factory on 27/6 per week but that increased to 32/- p/w 6 months later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mammasue 33 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 anyone remember Index Office Supplies formerley kenco office supplies ...or worked there...I was employed there 1976 to around 1981 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 anyone remember Index Office Supplies formerley kenco office supplies ...or worked there...I was employed there 1976 to around 1981 thought it was to do with coffee. welcome mammasue 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mammasue 33 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 thought it was to do with coffee. welcome mammasue thanx for the welcome...nah was office supplies silly lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 I began my roofing carear with the ruberoid roofing co Egypt road Basford (nottingham road end)in 1957 at two shillings and sevenpence halfpenny an hour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mammasue 33 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 I began my roofing carear with the ruberoid roofing co Egypt road Basford (nottingham road end)in 1957 at two shillings and sevenpence halfpenny an hour. my first job paid me ten pounds a week...just worked it out that u were on thirteen pence in todays currency ...lol per hour ...omg 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,541 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Started work as a Junior Secretary in July 1967. For the first few months I was on £6 8s 6d and then my wage went up to £7 4s 6d. I remember how exciting it was to finally crack the £1000 a year barrier! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mammasue 33 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 I remember doing a full shopping trolley of groceries at sainsburys when just got married and it cost £8 thought it was well expensive lol but look how much groceries cost now! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 one thing seems clear plenty of jobs about. working for ruberoid roofing in those days if they ran short of work we'd be told to pack us bags and go to another branch which was all over the country. I remember lodging boston lincs and the board being about 30 shillings a week. although today boston would be travelled to and fro. one job comes to mind-left my house in Dunstan st. at 10 past 6am caught the Trent bus at 20 past to huntingdon st.ran across town to Granby st. for the midland general bus to ripley caught a bus from ripley market place to hill top at heage walked for about a mile past a pub called the Spanker to a place called heage firs i think it was a plastics firm. arrived at a quarter to nine and greeted by the foreman saying 'can't yuo get here any earlier?' did a days work left at half past four back to Dunstan st. all for eight hours pay. happy days! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Got job when I was 14 law wouldn't let me start work till I was 15,so started Dixon's on hounds gate on my 15th birthday1969 £5 a week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,692 Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 A Charlesworth you were well off,in 1969 I got £3.1s.4d for a six day week starting at 07.30hrs and finishing at 17.00hrs Mon to Fri and 07.30hrs-13.00hrs on Saturday plus college Monday night 17.30hrs until 21.30hrs and Friday evening 17.30hrs til 21.30hrs Although I did get a ten shilling a week pay rise when I was 17 Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted August 26, 2014 Report Share Posted August 26, 2014 Started September 1967 as a School Lab. assistant at Mundella Grammar School on 20pounds 5 shillings and sixpence a month. I was there until January 1968 ehen I transferred to St. Bernadette's on Sneinton Dale. Loved the job but the money was no good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Annesleyred1865 137 Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 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? I started in 71 and got about £5.50 I think and paid £3.50 board at 15yr old. Did you know my dad as an instructor Ted Roe I think he's just started there after his accident at Annesley. I reckon everyone remembered Jack Streets tho Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,334 Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 To be honest I can remember the faces of most of the instructors but not a single name. I moved on to Annesl;ey after Moorgreen, where I lasted until November 1969. I lived at 51 Byron Road in "The Rows". 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 With that twenty pounds and five shillings, I bought a beautiful Mohair suit from Lawrences down Hockley for about 12 quid. Later in the year, I bought a Raleigh Moped for a tenner. The least said about that heap of poo the better. I know I was a bit young in 1967/68 but for less than a quid you could get bus fare into town and back, twenty fags and a box of matches, 3 or 4 pints in the pub and a couple of bags of crisps and a ham roll. Sometimes a bag of chips on the way home. Mind you, at that age it didn't take much to get you Brahms and Liszt. My mum used to take 8 pounds a month board then give it me back in clothes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,108 Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 I was thrilled to get my first wages in one of thoes brown envelips. As I was an Apprentice Hairdresser it did not amout to much. £1 7/6 for a week for a lot of hard work. 10/- Board 9/6 bus fare !/6 morning ice skating 6d x 2 = 1/- coke o cocola for both sessions. 1/6 afternoon skating session !/6 teen-bop Tue;s at Lacarno !/6 new paiir of stockings. I think this adds up to £1 6/- 06d 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,493 Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 Correct, go to top of the class Mary = £1/6/6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,279 Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 £4/6/5d per week for working underground and on shifts, 1958. Bilbraborn bus far to town from Bilborough was 6d. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
West Bridgfordian 144 Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 £6.00 per week at a little back street TV repair shop in Basford. Five and a half days per week. After 1 year they offered me a pound a week raise. Went to college instead and lived happily ever after. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,408 Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 I've still got my first payslip somewhere, started as an apprentice toolmaker in 1966 on 4 pounds, three shillings and eleven pence a week. Finished my time in 1970 and was on a quid an hour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,775 Posted March 2, 2021 Report Share Posted March 2, 2021 As I recall.. £6.12s. in Sept 1965 as an engineering apprentice for NCB, nominally attached to Linby, but spent most time at Arnold and Carlton College or the training centre in Watnall. I didn't last long in that role and transferred to the Scientific Dept. at Cinderhill. By the time I walked away in 1967, I'd reached the dizzy heights of £8.10s.6d p.w. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stavertongirl 1,729 Posted March 3, 2021 Report Share Posted March 3, 2021 I got £4 working in Boots offices on Station Street where I trained as an audio typist which was the new thing in the 60’s. I was there for a year but hated it, got fed up of being told how good Boots were and the supervisor of our typing pool (do they still have them?) was a b***h so I left and went to Cavendish-Woodhouse for the princely sum of £4/10/0! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,108 Posted March 3, 2021 Report Share Posted March 3, 2021 Not just wages can you remember when you had to be of work 3 days before going for a sick note, and most of our GPs thought they were gods. Allso holidays we had to work a whole year before we could claim any holidays , training to be a hairdresser when you booked your holiday time off, you were only allowed 2 saturdays in a fortnight. So all of your friends could go away on a Saturday morning but you had to work till 4 00 or 5 00 before you could start your hoilday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,914 Posted March 3, 2021 Report Share Posted March 3, 2021 My first wage was £ 1.12.6. Yes you've guessed it apprentice hairdresser. I could never have a Saturday off until we got another apprentice. I could never go to friends weddings. Then I decided to put them in a situation where they couldn't say no. I booked a 3 month holiday in USA to visit my penfriend. When I returned they'd taken me off their books so they had to re employ me. All in all they were good to work for. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted March 3, 2021 Report Share Posted March 3, 2021 Come @Stavertongirl b***h ? That’s lost me whisper it That’s shocking @mary1947 only allowed 2 Saturday in a fortnight Only 2 Saturdays off in a 14 days (just checks fingers) that must have been pre-decimalisation then Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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