Originally Posted by
Ivan Cloherty
Yes times have changed as have the numbers. Out of that £6 per month I left my mother £2 10s 00d as an allotment, some went to pay NHI (yep even on£6pm) some went into a fund to repay The Missions to Seamen to repay a loan they had given me to buy all the necessary uniforms dictated by the company, took me 6 years to pay off that loan, some of the uniform items I only had chance to wear once, I didn't come from a rich family and even when finishing my time and reaching the dizzy heights of 3/m the wages were a laugh, but it was a vocation rather than a vacation, the rest I frittered on wine women and song in Cuba and South America, money well spent I may add. And as mentioned by another correspondent I never had to visit Dr Ross in Liverpool, and I did get a discount because of my blond hair, blue eyes nugget brown tan and looking about 11/12 years old, which is why a lot of the girls probably breast fed me. Happy days