When I were a lad

[srixon 1]

The mention of shillings on the other thread got me thinking about my younger days and how much beer cost when i first started going to the pub. I could get a round of three pints of bitter for less than a pound, and get 1 pence change.

 

[IanM]

When I first started getting served in our local, it was 2 pints for a quid and 10 pence change for the Space Invaders!

A few shifts a week on the garage forecourt paid for a decent 2nd hand motorbike and nights out.

 

[Leftie]

Brought back memories of summer hols camping in Cornwall. In the pub on the outskirts of Newquay a pint of local was one and six pence, pint of special one and nine. Petrol was four and fourpence a gallon. There and back about 520 miles = 13/14 gallons so about £3 petrol money all in.

 

[Leftie]

I've still got a letter somewhere advising me that my salary was being increased by 5% i.e. £26. That was a year From £520 pa to £546. Aye. Was rolling in it then

 

[DanFST]

I'm not even old at 29! Tenner used to get me a pack of 20 ciggies and 2 and a half pints.

 

[Swinglowandslow]

Pre decimalisation, I was able to play around a top club in my area, but not be able to use the clubhouse etc..
Was invited one day by a member playing the course on his own to play together so that we "had some standing"
He invited me into the bar for a drink.
I had half a pint and he had a gin and something.
Came to three shillings and six pence. That is about 17p.
He paid with an old £5 note, they looked like a white handkerchief .Some here may remember them.
On receiving the change he put a 10 shilling note on the bar, (50p), I thought for some smokes.
Barman puts it in his pocket, "Thank you , Sir"
What!.?
A tip of 3 times the cost of the drinks?

 

[Orikoru]

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.

 

[Imurg]

My first "proper" part time job ( after paper rounds) was at Sainsburys doing Thursday after school and all day Saturday
Rate was a massive 88p per hour in '79
Paid in cash, in a small white envelope that you had to sign for at lunchtime on the Saturday
My first pay packet had £11.88 in it and I felt rich beyond my wildest dreams....
Spring and Summer of '80 I worked there full time between leaving school and starting college...
Went up a couple of pay grades and I was raking in 140-150 quid a week in that little white envelope...felt like a millionaire

 

[Slab]

I can remember my first weekly wage but no way could I tell you how much a pint or newspaper or entry to football or any other mundane item costs

How memorable must it have been for some of you guys to go to the shops... or did you write it in your diaries

 

[bobmac]

Pocket money was 3d.....6d if I washed the car
Sweets were 4 for a penny
You got 3d back on the bottle
Friday night was fish supper night
I used to walk miles to school. (just checked google earth....0.5 miles )
I had to lie to friends at school because our black and white tv didn't get BBC2
Free school milk
Summer holidays lasted for about 4 months

 

[Imurg]

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

 

[Fish]

.30p a pint, used to be .10p before 10pm in a nightclub to get you in early, but only on selected drinks only.

A tanner for chips & scratchings.

Think petrol was .75p p/gallon for my FS1E ?

 

[Deleted member 18588]

First pint cost 1 shilling and 8 pence just over 8p.

First annual salary £416.

Petrol was somewhere between 25p and 30p a gallon so approximately 6p per litre.

Television was black and white, only two channels.

And England won the World Cup!

 

[ScienceBoy]

I don’t recall things being that much different really.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Green shield stamps.
'Porn' was the lingerie section of the Littlewoods catalogue, hardcore if the model was wearing a see through bra.
3 of us used to go out every Sunday night with a quid and buy a round each, came to 99p. We were screwed when a pint went up to 34p!

 

[GreiginFife]

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.

 

[USER1999]

Scrumpy was about 35p a pint. The pub put the price up to 37p, so we boycotted it until they put the price back down.
Lager was 42p, and only for the rich.

Ciggies were less than 50p for 10.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

I remember the outrage at my secondary school when Mars bars went up from 9p to 10p in the tuck shop

 

[Hobbit]

First pint, 24p. Theakston's Best Bitter at the Drunken Duck. First wage packet, a few years later after uni, £65/week net £45(Nov '78). I remember 3 pay rises in '79 because of inflation.

Bought my first house in '80. A 2 bed miner's cottage - 3rd bedroom had been turned into an indoor bathroom. £15k. A single row of cottages on a hill overlooking a small town on the edge of the N Yorks moors. Beautiful spot, but when it snowed!!

 

[Beezerk]

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 remember in the late 80s there was hell on in the pub when Guinness went from 99p to £1 a pint.
Those were the days when you could go out on a weekend, have 8 pints, club, curry and taxi home for £20 lol.