Roger Atkinson - Blackout, Austerity and Pride
Blackout, Austerity and Pride – Life in the 1940s is a book written primarily from actual experience. It tells how an alert and intelligent boy, effectively orphaned at the age of 13, sets out to gain a foothold in life. Aided by some resourceful women, he unites a thirst for knowledge with a growing passion for places and buses and a strong sense of duty. http://www.memoir1940s.org.uk/
Blackout, Austerity and Pride – Life in the 1940s is a book written primarily from actual experience. It tells how an alert and intelligent boy, effectively orphaned at the age of 13, sets out to gain a foothold in life. Aided by some resourceful women, he unites a thirst for knowledge with a growing passion for places and buses and a strong sense of duty.
http://www.memoir1940s.org.uk/
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United Kingdom currency (£sd)<br />
23<br />
also tell the price). Or a worker taken on by an employer for a<br />
48-hour week at 9½d per hour would have known what his or her<br />
pay packet should contain, given that 9½d was a modest but not<br />
outrageously low rate of pay, which would not have attracted a liability<br />
to income tax. *<br />
* Butter 2d; wages 38/–. (Weekly pay was often expressed in shillings;<br />
monthly salaries in pounds.)
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