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Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
Paul Terry wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 1 Nov 2004:
In message , Mrs Redboots writes Stuart wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 31 Oct 2004: What is HRA and what is 5/-?? I don't know HRA, but 5/- is our old currency, what used to be called "five shillings". Now 25p, but in those days it was a lot of money! Maybe the equivalent of £50 or thereabouts. Not that much! 5 shillings in 1930 was worth about 12 pounds today - so not bad for a short flight. As little as that? Hmm..... you could support a family on £300 a year, back then, and now you would want, what, a minimum of £20,000. Okay some things (notably communications) are infinitely cheaper now than they were then, but if you express 5 shillings as a fraction of the annual salary, it would be more like £2,400 of today's money. -- "Mrs Redboots" http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/ Website updated 31 October 2004 |
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