Most engineers were still in their bunks until 5 minutes before watch? Must have had it soft in UCL, anywhere else the 3rd would be down below by 0930. Either by choice or the crew chipping.
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Most engineers were still in their bunks until 5 minutes before watch? Must have had it soft in UCL, anywhere else the 3rd would be down below by 0930. Either by choice or the crew chipping.
I was deck boy in 1953 on 9 pounds a month. Galley boy would have been the same. AB was 24 pound a month. R603245
That same year I was a first year apprentice and the wage was 75 pounds a year just over 6 pounds a month . Fortuanetley shortly after it was raised to 90 pounds a year , still under your film star wages . I have such printed and hung to remind me the difference of today and yesteryear and to never look a gift horse in the mouth , still looking for one. Cheers JS.
Sadly John the gift horse has long gone.
Cappy sold it to buy a new leg for Mary the forgot where he left her.
Your thinking of Cappys Rocking horse which he played with up until he was 14 .He sawed the legs off that as replacements for Mary. After that the money got tighter. JS
26 at 15 year old pound a month after sending half home to mam 13 pound a month at 15 years old was earning 40 quid a week on demolition but i had to go to sea still miss it all thees year later?jp
I was EDH in 51 but can't remember how much a month, was AB in 52; I think was 24 pounds a month. much better than the 2pounds ten shillings a week I was getting at 14 for five and a half days in a tinplate works doing a mans job.
Des
Ask your self, what is money now?
Slowly, faster in some instances, money as we know it is being replaced by the Card.
Days of yore we had notes and coins, they had value as well Cappy will tell you, he has made 3/9 last for almost 60 years.
With notes you could see the value, you got change from the notes.
But that is being replaced by the Credit or Debit card, no longer money in your pocket, The pound in your pocket is still a pound' as one Pm once said.
Now with the 'Card' it is just a transfer of numbers from one account to another.
<Many have no idea how much they have in the bank, if any, so they continue to spend like the proverbial drunken sailor, bit of an insult if you ask me, just waiting for the credit card statement to come in.
One of the causes of the current inflation.
[QUOTE=happy daze john in oz;415951]Ask your self, what is money now?
Now with the 'Card' it is just a transfer of numbers from one account to another.
./QUOTE]
Alas without the money you can't even transfer numbers:rolleyes:
I am always welcomed in the local shops as I always have a pocket full of change, half the time I don't know how it accumulates, the News agent asks me to put it all on the counter so that he can exchange it for a note, but the next time it has changed into coins again. I don't use it up the club as I get free beer, they always have some sort of free raffle that I win.
Des