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Trivia: Hook Underpass (Ace of Spades)
Tony Bryer wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 1 Nov 2004:
In article , Mrs Redboots wrote: 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. Uh? 5/- is 1/1200 of £300. So today's equivalent would be 1/1200 of £20K = £16.67 surely? Probably, probably..... never very good at maths, I wasn't. -- "Mrs Redboots" http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/ Website updated 31 October 2004 |
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