How much?

Here you will find references to items and services that were available through the ages.

Food, Drink & Shopping

1888 - Eggs - 28 for 1 shilling.

1890 - Coffee beans - 2 shillings per pound.
Butter - 10d per pound.
Mixed fruit jam - 5d per 2 pounds
Ginger nut biscuits - 3d per pound
Sugar - 3d per pound

1897 - A gallon of Whiskey or Rum was available at the Punch Bowl Inn, Cleckheaton for 18 shillings.

1904 - 50 large, sweet oranges or 2 dozen eggs could be bought at the Lion Stores for 1 shilling.

1906 - The Lion Stores offered 2½lb tins of pears for 7½d.

1912 - The Co-op did a parcel which contained 2lb of margarine, 3lb of sugar and 1/4lb of tea...all for 2 shillings.

1927 - 8oz bar of Cadbury's Milk or Bournville Chocolate - 1 shilling

1930 -Milk - 3d per pint.

1967 - 1lb of McVities Digestive biscuits - 1s 7d

Newspapers

1882 - The Cleckheaton Guardian costs half a pence per copy.

Property & Furniture

1903 - Jacksons stores, Market Place, Heckmondwike, offered complete furniture for a cottage for £7 19s 6d, comprising table, 4 Windsor chairs, armchair, rocking chair, fender, tidy, hearthrug, clock and 4 oil paintings. Also brass bedstead, wire mattress, bed, bolster and 4 pillows, dressing table, wash stand, 2 cane chairs, swing glass, toilet seat and rug.

1905 - A house could be rented at Iron Street, Cleckheaton for 2s 6d per week or one at Dixon Fold, Hightown for 2s 3d.

Travel & transport

1772 - Coach from Leeds to London in two days. Inside passengers £2 2s, outside £1 1s.

1872 - Omnibus journey from Heckmondwike to Littletown costs 1d.

1882 - Return 1st class train ticket from Cleckheaton to Bradford costs 1s 6d.

1903 - Tram journey from Cleckheaton Town Hall to Moor End cost 1d, however this was soon reduced to a halfpenny owing to the lack of passengers.

1904 - The rich could spend £12 12s for a 12 day trip to Norway.

1936 - Bus service from the George Hotel, Cleckheaton to Hill Top Gomersal (hourly) - 2d
Bus service from the George Hotel, Cleckheaton to the Walker's Arms, Scholes (hourly) - 2d

1967 - A second hand Morris 1000 (1964 year) - £125

Wages

1861 - The Station Master at Cleckheaton Railway Station was paid £1 14s 7d per week. His house, coal and gas was also paid for.

1905 - A 13 year girl working full time at Sugden's shirt makers earned 12 shillings in a good week, but had to buy her own needles.
A female supplementary teacher at St. John's infants school was appointed at £30 per annum.

1906 - Local textile wages were: men 28s 1d, women 15s 5d, boys 10s 5d and girls 8s 11d.

1951 - Spenborough Urban District Council advertise for a gravedigger at Liversedge Cemetery. Wage offered is £5 14s 6d for a 44 hour week.