Job on leaving school.
Barkers Butchers Duke Street. 1970 Butcher boy.£8 a week.

my first weekly pay packet at the ICI was £96 net!!!!

Fabrication Apprentice on a princely sum of £22 a week.

Carpet fitter for Shottons and my weekly wage was 16 quid

Assmbler at Laycock Engineering. About £120 a week.

my first weekly pay packet at the ICI was £4 10s net.

left school on the friday started at robert lauder timber company on the monday as a labourer as i wasnt due to start my apprenticeship at the tees and hartlepool port authority as a maintenance fitter until the september in 1974 i started at the apprenticeship on £12 a week

Cementation Construction 79/80 40 quid take home..New Cleveland bridge factory.boy it went a long way in them days

stockton market flogging fruit and veg for £10 a day (5am - 1pm)

In ICI Registry at Billingham. Can't remember how much I earned but it wasn't enough and I'd always spent it by the 2nd week of the month.

First 'job' was a two year YTS at Hartlepool Itec in Church Street, £28 a week in the first year, up to a whopping £35 in the second year....

First proper job was a computer technician at Newham College, East Ham, about £900 per month, in 1990...

YTS thing at Foster Wheelers. £19.50. Followed by another job as an apprentice which lasted two weeks.

It'd be about 2 groats wouldn't it??

Mine was in the Army and it was 11 snodgers a week. Then they took off tax insurance and bed and board and I had about 4 quid left. After jazz mag and beer purchase I had about 8p left.

as An apprentice at Richardson Westgarth on £2, 19 shillings and 6d a week
However I could have 8 pints of Strongarm, a packet of tabs and fish and chips and still go home with change from a pound.
OK! I'm getting on a bit.

An apprentice at Richardson Westgarth

Was Noah your charge hand?

shop assistant for Trusthouse Forte at Fleet Services, Southbound M3 £65 a week.

I was at the Itec in 1987 for a few months, then got a job at Steetley as a Lab Assistant...235 quid a month! Result! Or so I thought!

Month? MONTH??
How posh!

Hartlepool Utd Apprentice Groundsman 2007

and what year was that Monty , about 1974 (that's when I started)

Don't think they were using pounds, shillings and pence in 1974.

what were you doing at r&w
my old man worked there as a fitter/turner for years he may even have worked with you

YTS Steelworks, £25 a week.

Building Society Clerk - £4488 p.a. 1986

Indeed they weren't.
I was onto my fifth job by then and I'd squeezed in 4 years at Poly too!

Never much of a stayer like.


Are you writing all this down to use as evidence against us, Mr Dough?

No4 Plate Mill Steel Works £16.50 per week 1979

My dad was a turner at R&W too, so he might have known Mr Skip and No 6 senior.
I've got a couple of photos of him showing MacMillan round the Turbine Shop in the olden days. Harold's career never really took off until after he'd been photographed with my dad

Started at Hartlepool Council Highways Department in Burn Road as a Wages Clerk in 1970, on about £45 a month. Worked in the morning, played Cricket or Football in the yard in the afternoon, or cards on the bad weather days. Left when they started to talk about moving our jobs to Middlesbrough, because of the new Cleveland Council, and joined the RAF instead.