Ushaw Moor Memories (Backup)

Memories of Ushaw Moor and Deerness Valley

Thursday 30 October 2008

What Your Money Used To Be Worth In 1959

By reference to take home wage packets we can see how things have changed:

7 pounds then is like receiving 112 pounds and 91 pence now

10 pounds then is like receiving 161 pounds and 30 pence now

16 pounds then is like receiving 258 pounds and 08 pence now

If you were left a thousands pounds in a will by your Aunty Ada  in 1959

It is like being left 16,130 pounds now.

Reference thisismoney.co.uk/historic-inflation-calculator

Wilf Bell

1 comment:

  1. Lovely site, loved the pictures - Uncle Dan and James in the school photos! Must come back and visit soon - lovely memories of long walks with Grandad and 'plodging' in the beck, barley sugar twists from the sweet shop, the black macaws (that talked I think) in the fruit & veg shop. Sad about the cinema.
    Maria Wheeler
    nee Brydon
    (& Avery Family)

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