05-04-2014, 05:36 PM
Yup, money isn't what it used to be!
I recall that when I left home in 1968 and started my first, full-time proper job, I was employed by a certain government department in Cheltenham who had (and probably still do) a particular interest in radio communications & electronics (shhh: you-know-who
). During '68 - '69, my accommodation was in digs. For full-board, seven days a week, the charge was £3.15. My annual take home pay, before deductions, was £680 per annum. And, remarkable as it seems looking back, I managed to save a fair bit of cash, too.
'Practical Wireless' magazine cost 1/6. That's 7.5 p. in 'today's money'. Just up the road from where my parents lived, on what was a field, some new, detached bungalows had been built: price £4,000.
By the price stated in that advert for a VM79, you could almost buy four new bungalows at that price! Kinda makes you think . . .
Al.
I recall that when I left home in 1968 and started my first, full-time proper job, I was employed by a certain government department in Cheltenham who had (and probably still do) a particular interest in radio communications & electronics (shhh: you-know-who
). During '68 - '69, my accommodation was in digs. For full-board, seven days a week, the charge was £3.15. My annual take home pay, before deductions, was £680 per annum. And, remarkable as it seems looking back, I managed to save a fair bit of cash, too. 'Practical Wireless' magazine cost 1/6. That's 7.5 p. in 'today's money'. Just up the road from where my parents lived, on what was a field, some new, detached bungalows had been built: price £4,000.
By the price stated in that advert for a VM79, you could almost buy four new bungalows at that price! Kinda makes you think . . .
Al.
