tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post8940928715925366721..comments2024-03-27T03:22:46.572-07:00Comments on The Cat's Meat Shop: Toll RageLee Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-50930175703172951622011-01-31T14:10:30.283-08:002011-01-31T14:10:30.283-08:00It's a difficult one to get right, currency, a...It's a difficult one to get right, currency, and I'm no expert but - some examples ... a "shilling day" allowed the industrious working classes to attend the Great Exhibition (1851); a successful working-class man would make no more than about £75 a year; a middling clerk, if lucky, double that; Mrs. Beeton gives a coachman's wage as £20-£35 a year (but I think that would exclude accommodation and food). Any help? £10, in order words, would have been four or five months' wages for a coachman; £2, not so bad.Lee Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-65228018200592801772011-01-31T13:22:42.375-08:002011-01-31T13:22:42.375-08:00And that's why toll collectors are in booths t...And that's why toll collectors are in booths today.<br /><br />What does 40s equate to in today's currency? Is there a retro-currency converter somewhere?Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046354515410342573noreply@blogger.com