When I were a lad

[backwoodsman]

The earliest value of so ething i remember must have been just after decimalisation
I remember the Old Man filling up the Austin Maxi, must have been '72, and it was 37p a gallon.
And he was moaning about the price

I remember the hue & cry when a gallon of petrol went up to 5 shillings for the very first time (the pre-decimal equivalent of 25p for you young whippersnappers). Late 60's I guess or the very eary 70's as it was definitely predecimal. It was as if the world was going to end. Similar brouhaha happened when it first went up to a £1 a gallon - but dont really recall when that was.

 

[ManinBlack]

I remember when I could go into a shop with 20p & come out with two bags of crisps, a bottle of coke & 3 comics. Can't do that now, cameras everywhere.

 

[Orikoru]

Even in '94 when I were a lad, a pint of Special in the Legion was only 95p (£1.10 in the pub across the road).
So a very decent night out was had off a tenner.

Prices seemed to increase rapidly after 2000 and now its £4 a pint in the very same Legion.

I was talking to a mate recently about how all the 'local' pubs are dying out as nobody goes to them. Doesn't take much to figure it out really. When people used to pop out and get a couple of pints for a pound a time, whereas now it's £4.50, yet the can of lager you get from the supermarket are still working out around a quid each. It's no wonder people stay in. And yet it's the supermarkets that people blame rather than breweries, landlords etc.

 

[srixon 1]

When I started drinking in pubs a pint of Fosters was £1.95 I think. That was only 17 years ago and now you're lucky to get a pint under £4.50, or under a fiver if you're in London. Mental really.

especially as the main ingredient is water.

 

[Beezerk]

especially as the main ingredient is water.

Do you not realise the effort that goes into making pash ?

 

[Deleted member 18588]

I remember the hue & cry when a gallon of petrol went up to 5 shillings for the very first time (the pre-decimal equivalent of 25p for you young whippersnappers). Late 60's I guess or the very eary 70's as it was definitely predecimal. It was as if the world was going to end. Similar brouhaha happened when it first went up to a £1 a gallon - but dont really recall when that was.

Earlier than that I reckon.


I used to work on the pumps as a part-time job whilst in my last year at school and petrol was five bob a gallon by then.

That was 1965/66.

 

[Tashyboy]

When Tash started at the pit in 79. My first wage was £28.30. I went to Rufford pit with a quid in me pocket. It got me the bus fare there and back. A sausage cob with brown sauce on it and a cuppa tea. I would call back at the sherwood pub on the way home and have a pint of rammel Ayingerbrau lager and a chip cob. Came to a pound exactly for the lot. About two months later the flippin bus fare went up a penny each way
made my day if one of lads picked me up at the bus stop, saved me about 6p

 

[backwoodsman]

Earlier than that I reckon.


I used to work on the pumps as a part-time job whilst in my last year at school and petrol was five bob a gallon by then.

That was 1965/66.

Fair enough.

I just remember Mr Portsmouth - for it was his 1-pump station in the village - apologising to more or less the whole village that it wasnt his fault ...

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Fair enough.

I just remember Mr Portsmouth - for it was his 1-pump station in the village - apologising to more or less the whole village that it wasnt his fault ...

That must be the difference.

The garage I worked at was flash, it had two pumps!?

Regular and Super. (No dirty diesel)

 

[Fade and Die]

Early 80s beer was 60p a pint in the local, but we wanted to go to a trendy pub in Bethnal Green with Palm trees and a fish pond inside! My dad warned me “you’re mad going there, you’ll pay a pound a pint” and we did! But barmaids wearing French knickers and Herbie Hancocks’s Rockit blasting out of the speakers it was well worth it.?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

my pocket money was increased from 6d a week to 1s a week when we took in lodgers (in 1965). My 6d bought me my Dandy/Beano/Sparky Comic plus a few sweets or a packet of crisps. 1s - riches of Croesus!

When I got my first (non-paperboy) job when a student (1976) - as a hotel hall porter I earned £16 for a 60hr week - plus all meals and digs paid for. Mind you IIRC 'special' in the hotel cost 26p/pint and 'lager' 27p/pint - and a round at Pitlochry GC cost me (I think) about 40p

 

[jim8flog]

When I was too young to be in a pub it was 2 shillings and threepence a pint, about 11p in todays money (If I have got my maths right).

I used to earn 7s6d a week doing a morning paper round and 15s for a Saturday morning in the Builders Merchant.

 

[sunshine]

when i were a lad...
Monty Python- Four Yorkshire Men - YouTube

 

[Leftie]

Earlier than that I reckon.


I used to work on the pumps as a part-time job whilst in my last year at school and petrol was five bob a gallon by then.

That was 1965/66.

Ties in with my post No 3. That was about 1964/5.

 

[Dando]

I’m sure @chrisd will be along soon with tales of the first wheel

 

[Imurg]

I’m sure @chrisd will be along soon with tales of the first wheel

Didn't they hire the tools from him?

 

[CliveW]

especially as the main ingredient is water.

The last time I bought a bottle of water at a service station it was dearer per litre than the petrol !

 

[Jamesbrown]

Pack of fags £3.45. £12 now. Glad I quit 7 years ago! It’d cost me £480 a month to smoke nowadays.

I could do with one right now as well, but I’d need a loan.

 

[Vikingman]

Back in 1974, left school on Friday, started work the following Monday.

£590 a year or £11 odd a week.

 

[SocketRocket]

When I was a young Jigger in the 1960s I could get a pint of Cider (Dry, Sweet or Mixed) in the Coronation Tap; Clifton Bristol for 1 and 3 (old pence) To put it into perspective £20 was a good weekly wage then.