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Boy sailor, 5shilling a week (25p) and the other 30s (£1.50) kept for when you went on leave and sent to your mam. It was all found though so you didn't have to pay anything out. The 5 bob was spent on nutty and pop. To be honest it may even have been 5s a fortnight, my memory aint what it used to be. I'll check up on the Ganges site.
One funny thing is that I had been getting more on my paper round before joining up, not as adventurous though. For it is said "Blessed is he who floggeth his Burberry to buy nutty for his oppo's"
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Nice one Tatey, managed to hold on to my burbs for the duration. A lot used to get nicked probably for the same reason as you stated, they were the ones who used to floggeth their mates burbs to buy ale for themselves though. Remember a bloke, well a mate really, who was trying to sell his civvy burbs so me and him could go for a pint in Gosport. I managed to borrow a few bob, used some to buy his burbs from him and we both went ashore on the proceeds so I got a run ashore and a cheap burbs in one go. I think now that I must have been a bit of a shoit, or as we called them in them days, a bit of a skate. I even wore it ashore with him, I was dry, he got wet. 
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Summer holiday job at "The Bright Spot" in New Brighton in 1964.
£1 a day for 13 hours,clock in,out,1/2hour for lunch and a 7 day week!Wilkies were nothing but generous,no wonder there were so many fiddles going on.
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Littlewoods Pools in 1980 got £57 as a pools clerk trainee for a 35 hour week. They paid really well and you got a good bonus at Christmas too 
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When left school I was on two groats and stale loaf for ninety hour week.
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When left school I was on two groats and stale loaf for ninety hour week. groats??? and only ninety hours????? One of the leisured class eh?
Carpe diem.
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Bandy. Think you should point out that nutty is not bags of nuts or some may think you where in with a gang of monkeys {then again perhaps some where right monkeys so to speak}
Last edited by jimbob; 26th Nov 2012 6:24pm.
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