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Historic prices are not worth discussing without their relativity to inflation or the weekly wage. My first pay was 27 shillings and 6 pence. I gave my mother a pound and that left me 7 shillings and 6 pence ( how's that for a mathmatical calculation). Out of that I could buy chewing gum for a penny, go to the pictures for 6 pence etc and save up for an "Ashby" bike that cost 12 pound.However fishing lines were expensive. Nylon lines came in yard long "traces" that cost 6 pence each. That meant that a weekly wage would buy 57 yards of a 4lb breaking strain line. My grandson can buy the same line now for a few minutes work.Our first clothes washing machine cost me 6 weeks wages at 16 pounds per week. I have just paid a tradesman for an hours work enough for him to go close to paying for a similar machine.I don't know where the price of Coke fits into the scheme of things?
Historic prices are not worth discussing without their relativity to inflation or the weekly wage. My first pay was 27 shillings and 6 pence. I gave my mother a pound and that left me 7 shillings and 6 pence ( how's that for a mathmatical calculation). Out of that I could buy chewing gum for a penny, go to the pictures for 6 pence etc and save up for an "Ashby" bike that cost 12 pound.
However fishing lines were expensive. Nylon lines came in yard long "traces" that cost 6 pence each. That meant that a weekly wage would buy 57 yards of a 4lb breaking strain line. My grandson can buy the same line now for a few minutes work.
Our first clothes washing machine cost me 6 weeks wages at 16 pounds per week. I have just paid a tradesman for an hours work enough for him to go close to paying for a similar machine.
I don't know where the price of Coke fits into the scheme of things?
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