What was your first weeks wage

When you left school?

£23.50.

Not sure of the full wage, but I was working at Greenhalghs bakery for £2.60 an hour!!

Don't ask Glos, he would have received his wages in Groat's.

£27.30 on a yts scheme. The second year shot up to a whopping £35.00 a week.

My first weeks wage was £66. I can remember it well because I had just left school and at that time the bin men were on £45 a week and it was considered good money.

Back then you could buy a packet of twenty fags and have a couple of pints and still have change from a £1.

I should point out that my basic wage was about £45 per week after tax but I did two hours overtime at night and worked Saturday morning.

Reebok Trotter wrote:I should point out that my basic wage was about £45 per week after tax but I did two hours overtime at night and worked Saturday morning.

and what year was that

Have a guess four eyes!

1066

£5.33 as an Engineering apprentice.

You lot were lucky. Mine was £7-10 shillings ( that's £7.50 in the new money.
That makes me fairly ancient- but I'm still working!!

£27.30 back in 1986 was pretty shit. I mean that wouldn't even get you an adult ticket at the Reebok supporting Burnley on a freezing cold Tuesday night these days.

Mr Magoo wrote:1066

Close. You are only out by 911 years.   

1977 feck off your older than that.

My first job I only lasted a day , thought fuck this  I'm not doing this for the rest of my life.

Anyway I still went for my wage, got 16 shillings and 80 pence.

Got offered job at Whittikers in Bolton 79shillings a week but I never took it.

Had over 20 different jobs all crap upto being 20.

Then settled down in my main job for nearly 30yrs, retired now.

rammywhite wrote:You lot were lucky. Mine was £7-10 shillings ( that's £7.50 in the new money.
That makes me fairly ancient- but I'm still working!!

Snap, and me!!

Mr Magoo wrote:1977 feck off your older than that.

I kid you not. Back in 1977 you could get a packet of fags for under 30p. A pint of beer was about 28p. Geenhall Whitley's and Tetley's beers were the main breweries in Bolton.

Culcheth_White wrote:£27.30 on a yts scheme. The second year shot up to a whopping £35.00 a week.

 same here!

Reebok Trotter wrote:

Mr Magoo wrote:1977 feck off your older than that.

I kid you not. Back in 1977 you could get a packet of fags for under 30p. A pint of beer was about 28p. Geenhall Whitley's and Tetley's beers were the main breweries in Bolton.

Are you sure you don't mean Warrington?
Magee Marshall was taken over by Greenhalls when I was a lad and produced pop on Derby Street at Cambrian works.
Tetleys ale has been brewed over the years in Wire and Leeds to my knowledge, never in Bolton.
I do stand to be corrected on this as I have great interest in the finer points of Ale.