The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

Here's an old Intrepid reel advert from the 'Fishing Magazine' December 1966.

Excellent, sir. Good to see what they were costing when I was 15. At £6.05 p (121 shillings in real money) it would have taken me nearly 25 weeks to have afforded one with my pocket money !!!

Fat Fish Floats wrote:You can't buy a packet of fags now for that!

To try to put in context, Sir ... my first full weekly pay packet in 1969 for a full time job was £9.63p.

AshbyCut wrote:

Fat Fish Floats wrote:You can't buy a packet of fags now for that!

To try to put in context, Sir ... my first full weekly pay packet in 1969 for a full time job was £9.63p.

Blimey! What were you? A brain surgeon?


Surely the 63p wouldn't have come in until 1971 with decimalisation?

Nobby wrote:

AshbyCut wrote:Blimey! What were you? A brain surgeon? Surely the 63p wouldn't have come in until 1971 with decimalisation?

a) I had a summer job on a building site before I went to college, and b) I made the conversion for those younger than myself, of which there are many !!!

Thanks for posting that Mark - I would have been 13 when the advertisment was published. To add abit more financial context that would have been around the time I bought my B. James Mk IV, which I think was 10 guineas It took me forever to save up for it, helped by 'birthday money', 'Christmas money', and whatever I could save from pocket money.

Ashbycut's wages of £9.63 in 1969 equals £131.64 today.

The 1966 Intrepid at 121 shilling (£6.05) would cost today £92.20