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Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Remember jumping off that balcony to be caught by a crowd of mates below.
One chap who just joined in jumped as we all walked away.
“Mr Morgan to Area 5” came the call over the speakers
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Originally Posted by BLUETIT
Remember jumping off that balcony to be caught by a crowd of mates below.
One chap who just joined in jumped as we all walked away.
“Mr Morgan to Area 5” came the call over the speakers
£12.00 per week in 1971. Went out with £2 in my pocket on a Friday/Saturday night, viz:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyncoed Slumdog
Train in to Queen St Station = 10p.
Game of darts & 4 pints on Newcastle Brown in the Oddfellows club [Newport Rd] 4 x 16p = 64p.
Run to Rank to get in before 10pm entrance price hike = 50p
Try & 'cop on', on a ratio of 3 blokes to 1 girl, have one pint = 20p
Walk home via Deedar [Whitchurch Rd] or Akash [Woodville Rd], have a curry, 55p.
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Originally Posted by light up the darkness
Remember talkiing to one young lady (a bird in old money :hehe:), asked her if she wanted a drink, she said "a Brandy & Babycham, please" !!!!
Wonder what her name was, as I disappeared :hehe:
My dad was part of the workforce building Aberthaw power station. He arranged (unknown to me) for me to spend a night shift with him.
It was a wonderful adventure for an eleven year old, riding on the narrow gauge railway moving the concrete mix around and drinking tea out of a tin mug with the men.
In the morning it was their pay day and I got a proper McCalpine pay packet for 2/6, it even had my name on it.
I had a summer job with Saga holidays in about 1976. They paid 50p an hour for putting tickets in envelopes. It was complete chaos and I thought this lot will never survive :hehe:
Lovely story :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by cantonboy
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Originally Posted by cantonboy
Hope you declared it to the Taxman
My old man used to take me around his works in the docks about that age, it was a crazy place. They made anchors and chains. Massive piles of them everywhere. Furnaces, molten steel, dark, crazy noise all the time. He often said so and so lost an eye, finger or arm today. One guy died. It was a right baptism of fire when I worked there for 6 months at 18, the bosses son. I got so much grief from the other workers it was unreal, 25 years of pay back to the boss I reckon.:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by cantonboy
Great learning curve though....nothing was as crazy as working there ever again.
cant think of the name dumballs road by any chance ?Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
I worked at my dads place for a few weeks. It was a supplier of plumbing parts in Zurich. I spent a few weeks counting widgets with the gastarbeiter in the warehouse. They started at about 7 and someone would go down the bakers at 9 to get croissants and beer! How times have changed.
£11 per week, from Barclays Bank Porth in 1972. I hated the job but stayed in various branches for 10 years, some were good like Barry Docks, Llandaff and Tonypandy, others were horrible places to work.
Years later, about 1976, when working in Barry I used to cash £5 on a Friday to see me through the weekend! Also had a half day from there to take some mates to see City get promoted at Bury. Back about 4 am, the work in Barry.
Yeah Beal & Son ltd on Dumballs rdQuote:
Originally Posted by poc
thats it :thumbup: amazing placeQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
£27 quid a week youth opportunities scheme trainee alarm engineer.
1985 think it was a step up from the yts.
Company paid some government the rest.
Yes, seems low but what would that be worth in 2021 I wonder?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef
And re the Top Rank, who remembers ‘Grab a Granny Night’ every Monday?
My first wage was around £70 a week working down Merretts (Sunblest) bakery on Maes-yr-Coed Road...in hygiene department, 1977. 10 hours a day, 5.5 days a week 7am to 5pm. Mainly in the tray wash unloading the empty bread baskets, stacking them then putting them through the tray wash ready for the next day's deliveries. There were some right characters driving the vans down there. Hard, physical, work but relatively well paid for a school holiday job.
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Originally Posted by Stanmore Bluebird
Plus 10 shillings AND Luncheon Vouchers !Quote:
Originally Posted by valleys caveman
From 5 shillings a week pocket money it was a huge amount. Don't knock it !
Used to black current pick or potato pick in school holidays. Ffing horrendous, paid by the tray or box, whatever the pay it wasn’t enough.
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Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
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Originally Posted by Stanmore Bluebird
Whip a widow
Looking back it sure was...bombing around on fork lift trucks, cranes, huge gantry for lifting the piles of chains and anchors. I don’t know how I survived...:hehe: I even painted the fence around the place and got grief off the docks boys everyday.....Quote:
Originally Posted by poc
£7 and 10 shillings. Rowland James vestric warehouse in Ely. Circa 1970.I gave my mum £2. The rest was all mine and considering up until that point I only got half a Crown a week pocket money I thought I was rolling in it. 😂
Worked on the gate at Ninian Park - £3 a match.
Proper wage - £7,000pa - trainee accountant, 1986.
£29 pw. 1985/86 YTS, with Wimpey Homes
35 quid a week in 1987 on a training scheme at South Wales Switchgear, Pontllanfraith.
Spent most of it in Robert Barkers in Blackwood, also had a discount because my Mum knew him.
A few months later joined switchgear on a full time contract and and my salary was 790 per month.
Glorious days... a few days a week and three evenings a week in Crosskeys college doing a BTEC while working full time. great days.