I was on a weekly wage of just over £5 gave my mother £2 week left me with £3 for bus to work ,lunches and nights out , If you had ten bob you could have a good night out on cider ,it use to be a lot cheaper than beer then .
Remember the days when...
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1973 I was earning very good money for my age, £108 take home. Five pints for a pound so I could in theory buy 500 pints of beer a week. Now 500 pints in 2011 would mean I'd need to take home about £1,500 a week
Whittler Kev
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
"...made my McCowans, who went out of business last week..."
NO! say it isn't so
Carrying a locking penknife with a 3 1/2" blade in my pocket, day in, day out.
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Bit young for nostagia aintcha ?
Just goes to show how quick things change! Not old enough for nostaliga perhaps, but old enough to moan about the recession at least.
NO! say it isn't so
This was last month, but the paper said that no buyer had been found a week ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15001428
You'd think someone would buy a sweetie company with a good traditional reputation, all the equipment in place, trained staff, and no debt.....isn't that written off ?
cheers,
M
NO! say it isn't so
This was last month, but the paper said that no buyer had been found a week ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15001428
You'd think someone would buy a sweetie company with a good traditional reputation, all the equipment in place, trained staff, and no debt.....isn't that written off ?
cheers,
M
They've been bought but the Scottish factories are being closed - manufacture moving south unfortunately.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9306951.Wham_Bars_and_Highland_Toffee_to_be_made_in_York_following_acquisition/
I remember Ansells bitter at 11p a pint at the Railway (GER) Club in 1975 and 2 pulls on the bandit for 5p with a £5 jackpot (all in 5p's
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About 1958ish the snow was that bad I couldn't walk through it at 9 years old to get the bus to school, so I had to drive a tractor to the top of our road to catch it, AND THE TRAINS AND BUSES WERE RUNNING ON TIME THROUGH IT ALL!
Local Bobby clipping your ear as you had road your bike home from the youth club (Love on a Mountain Top was the hit single or Killer Queen:vio
I bet you can remember the one present Santasent every year as well (not the three sackfuls everyone seems to get now)......
:sad6:...........................I could write this reminisce for days (no minimum characters apply here)
I remember the winter of 1963 well it hit real hard in the vallies of S.Wales ,drifting snow all night ,no central heating - coal fire with a back boiler ,as much ice on the inside of the windows as outside !
Woke up for school and found the snow upto the bedroom window ,school closed but we had no bread ,milk or parafin for the oil heater ,
local shops closed so we had a two mile trek to the garage with the snow still coming down in blizzard conditions ,got home to hot jacket spuds sat in front of that lovely open fire ,my toes blue with the cols where the snow had gone over my wellies brr. :theyareon
Still get that now LOL, one of the downsides of living in a really old listed house
They made those cracking coconut bars too with chocolate coating , didnt they ,If they are moving south perhaps they are coming to Wales ?NO! say it isn't so
Carrying a locking penknife with a 3 1/2" blade in my pocket, day in, day out.
Still the best option for out in the woods. Wool works even when wet....How could millions of sheep be wrong?
Still wear them today
as you say all those sheep can't be wrongthe only down side is there a little tighter around the middle than they used to be LOL
Cresta -" its frothy
Cresta was the devil's work, but Fry's five boys and fruit bars were lovely
Don't forget four-for-a-penny Blackjacks and Fruit Salad. There was no lying to your mum when you'd had Blackjacks - the tongue told all!
Still wear them today
the only down side is there a little tighter around the middle than they used to be LOL
21st Century inches are smaller than 20th Century ones. It's a fact.
ha'penny chocolate covered caramels and Royal Scot biscuits
I used to find it fascinating watching the ice designs grow on the window, day after day
I mind those power cuts too.......queuing for 2 hours for a loaf and again for coal
Mum baked but there wasn't even flour to be bought, so we had oatbread and oatcakes. Everything was in short supply then.
I think that's probably why I keep a really good pantry nowadays
cheers,
Toddy
and Royal Scot biscuits I used to find it fascinating watching the ice designs grow on the window, day after day
I mind those power cuts too.......queuing for 2 hours for a loaf and again for coal
Mum baked but there wasn't even flour to be bought, so we had oatbread and oatcakes. Everything was in short supply then.
I think that's probably why I keep a really good pantry nowadays
cheers,
Toddy
