29-12-2019, 12:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 29-12-2019, 01:00 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
(29-12-2019, 12:13 AM)Rogerchummy Wrote: I notice the incredible annual road tax charge of £25. This must be about £750 or even more per annum in today's money.The sticker dates from 1968 to 1974 when the rate was £25. In 1968 the amount was equal to £436 today and by 1974 to £262. Still expensive. In those days a telephone was still considered by the Civil Service, who ran the nationalised GPO (General Post Office) as a luxury item. Installation charge? £20 - unless you opted for a 6-foot cable and a phone in the hall on a table when it was reduced to (if memory serves me correct) £15.