Moley said:
:lol: There are more old farts and grumpy old gits on here than I realised.
I do remember my first job, age 14, and our money hadn't long gone decimal.
Remember when petrol forecourts were manned and you drove over a bell cable on your way in? A lad pumped your petrol, and maybe checked your oil, while you went into the kiosk to pay. I was one of those lads, and 4-star was 36p a GALLON.
The job had its perks though, if any driver didn't want their green shield stamps we kept them to one side and shared them out at the end of the shift.
At the risk of this thread starting to sound like a Monty Python Sketch .... :nono:
I've still got my first pay slip from 1970
£5 4s 0d for a 48 hour week over 6 days, takehome was £4 16s 7d after stoppages :shock:
We got petrol ration books issued in the early 70's, but they didn't get used for some reason
Green shield stamps
took ages to save for anything :lol:
The beer prices I mentioned, 8p mild and 10p bitter were in 1972, in the Junior Common Room bar, if any of the students worked the bar for the evening they got 4 free pints as payment :drunk: it was amazing how many maths students couldn't count :whistle:
The other thing we did when we were working the bar, there was a swing top bin we used for all the ullage, we cleaned it out and drew off a couple of pints from each pump (total waste of time, it was never in the pipes long enough, 4 hours from lunchtime closing!) .... and yes, we used to 'subsidise' our 4 earned pints with the contents of the bin
Happy days, I remember the intake of students at that time was roughly 120 each year, but there were only about 30 lads ........... :thumb: in fact very happy days indeed :party: met MrsC as a student there, we actually met working in the Union Social Club bar, she was the treasurer @ the time :!: