O/T Public Bar Price List 1971

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[mickd1961]

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! 😩

[billsbest]

WOW! I left school in 1971.

[TipperaryBaggie]

Remember my first drink in a pub was a bottle of Light Ale which cost 1/3d. How times have changed.

[Q165]

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 then

[Acido]

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!".

[Leicesterbaggie]

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.

[kettering_baggie]

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.......?

[Leicesterbaggie]

Good point Kettering!!