When working out the cost of my trips...yes, I do deduct the savings I make by not being here in the UK.
I've long used a version of Beernomics, specifically for inflation, 1975 price of a pint of Dark Light (mild) was 20p I was getting 600 quid a term in grant so that was about 3000 pints a term in todays money about 6300 quid a term purchasing power Students never had it so good By 1979 it was 30 odd pence a pint and I was earning a pittance of about 50 quid a week, that would equate to about 350 quid a week in wages these days. The odd thing is that I don't seem to earn massively more than that these days, I mean I do earn a lot more but not enough to make a huge difference in beer purchasing power, which given that my current work is a lot lot more complex than the simple unskilled stuff I was doing back then makes me think that real people are a lot poorer than they think compared to 40 years ago
I studied at Bradford Uni, I remember being horrified that the price of a pint was 32p rather than the 28p it cost in my hometown of Preston, that was in 1979?. Who brewed the Dark Light beer?
Colchester, 1968, price of a pint of bitter in the Hole in the Wall public bar was 1s 10d, or 2s 3d in the lounge bar. This was not the pub nearest the school, that was the Hospital Arms, but some teachers drank there... (Whatever happened to public bars and lounge bars?)
In Scotland you would ask for a dark light, same way we ask for a pint of heavy, it was a 60 shilling ale rather than the 'heavy' 70 shilling ale. It was a colloquial term I guess, I was almost certainly drinking something from Scottish & Newcastle. The prices, I'm quoting are also best guess from my somewhat faulty memory
I remember going to the picture on a Saturday morning in the mid 1960s with half a crown maybe less, getting into the pictures having a choc ice and some chocolates and going for pie and chips afterwards. Ten bob notes were rare though
Crikey..You lot remind me of my Grandad...He used to say things like that! For me,Saturday morning pictures costs.. 5p on bus to town..5p for toffee apple,5p to get in and 5p for bus back. No "d`s" or ten Bob notes in sight.. Must admit I do just about remember the threepenny bits and the shilling coin when I was about 5 yrs old.. I suppose I`d better look for a picture of each to remind us youngsters what they looked like again!!
The pictures were still quite cheap then mate, still about a shilling or thereabouts. Thrupenny bit, 3d, three old pence, one new penny is 2.4 old pence so an old thrupence was damn close to 1p today I remember ha'penny and the farthing
It is certainly holding its own longer than I would have expected, would be nice if it held up through Christmas even though I'm not going to be in the Phils this year, 72.25 just now!
I'm going over for Christmas, two months only, if it gets to 73 might send a few £ grand over, tie me over for beer
He's barely getting started And 'few' is a nice number it represents >=3 which is wonderfully without limit
