Here's an old Intrepid reel advert from the 'Fishing Magazine' December 1966.
Intrepid Advert
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The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
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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 !!!
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
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To try to put in context, Sir ... my first full weekly pay packet in 1969 for a full time job was £9.63p.Fat Fish Floats wrote:You can't buy a packet of fags now for that!
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
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AshbyCut wrote:To try to put in context, Sir ... my first full weekly pay packet in 1969 for a full time job was £9.63p.Fat Fish Floats wrote:You can't buy a packet of fags now for that!
Blimey! What were you? A brain surgeon?
Surely the 63p wouldn't have come in until 1971 with decimalisation?
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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 !!!Nobby wrote:AshbyCut wrote:Blimey! What were you? A brain surgeon? Surely the 63p wouldn't have come in until 1971 with decimalisation?
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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.
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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
The 1966 Intrepid at 121 shilling (£6.05) would cost today £92.20