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I have an invoice from the first holiday I took my wife and youngest daughter on in 1986 to Watetgate Bay Hotel near Newquay.
It’s for around £414 for full board in what was a 4 star hotel at that time, in those days you got a four course lunch and evening meal.
The same weeks holiday in the summer at the same hotel with only breakfast included would be around £3500-£4000+......crazy!
When I started my first job serving petrol in July 78 petrol was 64p a gallon and due to inflation and the oil crisis it leapt to 78p a gallon by the time I left the garage in early October 78........I can remember customers being up in arms about the constant rises.
78p a gallon 🤣
I was taking home £15.60 and mum was taking £5.50 housekeeping! 😩
WOW! I left school in 1971.
Remember my first drink in a pub was a bottle of Light Ale which cost 1/3d. How times have changed.
That was right in the middle of my first year as a student. I regularly frequented the student union bar where the beer was subsidised. The mind boggles at how cheap it was thenQuote:
Originally Posted by phild
Aww 1971 ehh, the year we went decimal lol. Well I weren't even born at the time of that price list in Feb, I was born in June '71. In fact Number 1 in the charts when I was born was Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep, they don't write songs like that anymore. :)
What the heck was 'Cob nut' beer, it sounds disgusting.
And who remembers the tv ad tune.. 'Stay sharp Harp, stay sharp to the bottom of the glass!". :D
I honestly didn't realise that the prices were that low in 1971. I left school in the mid sixties and to my recollection a pint of Red Barrel, horrible stuff, cost 1/3d. Obviously time must have dimmed my memory.
Ah, so it’s time that has done for your memory, eh? Not the beer.......?Quote:
Originally Posted by Leicesterbaggie
Good point Kettering!!