Reply With QuoteYeah Beal & Son ltd on Dumballs rdOriginally Posted by poc
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£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 rd
thats itamazing place
£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?
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.
Plus 10 shillings AND Luncheon Vouchers !
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.
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...thats itI even painted the fence around the place and got grief off the docks boys everyday.....
£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.
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