Old Money

[stuey]

Yesterday, I was looking through a December, 1956 issue of "Practical Householder", an English DIY magazine. (I thought that the term DIY was sort of new, but they used it back then.). Anyway, there were a few ads in it for build your own concrete garages. One was priced at 50 pounds. Could anyone tell me what, approximately, 50 1956 GBP would be worth today?

[DSJ]

I earned slightly less than £3.00 a week then as a trainee librarian. My daily bus fare to work was 9d and l paid my parents £1.00 per week board. I worked five full days & one half day each week.

I absolutely loved my work and would not have changed it for anything.

[Obiter]

We say 'notes' over here, Stuey, not 'bills'.

[stuey]

I'll make a note of that, Obiter:)

[Obiter]

A 'bill' is generally a demand for payment (invoice). Paper money are banknotes, shortened to notes.

[woofgang]

"Daddy Daddy, there's a man at the door with a bill."

:Don't be silly son, it must be a duck with a hat on."

[jourdain2]

boxtops - re: the article about 'a woman's place'. I remember seeing something very similar and when my sister-in-law-to-be left school in about 1960 her leaving report stated that 'xxxxx has excellent skills and will make some man a very good wife'. She and my in-laws were very proud of this - and she did indeed make a good wife and mother. Different world.