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Six shillings a week in 1844 sounds like a large amount of money. I am unable to advise the current equivalent.
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Fascinating indeed. I enjoy trying to discover the old among the new - sometimes it is only a ghostly trace, but once you know it's there it changes your whole perspective about a location.
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Six shillings a week ensured Grove Hall undercut all its rivals. They raised prices to eleven shillings the following year.
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The Bank of England's inflation calculator gives a rate of 124.81% from 1844 until 2018, so 6 shillings would be around £37.45.
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You'd have to be a looney to quibble with 38 smackers a week for a roof over your head In Bow.
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I hope this isn't going to be another unsustainable series like your Bow pubs feature from yesterday because I don't see how you can fit in two streets per day when there are only seven days left in the month of August.
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According to one report I found online, it costs an average of £350 per day to keep a mental health patient in hospital. So on that basis the equivalent modern day cost of accommodation in Bow would be £2487.50 per week.
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Very difficult to put a meaningful monetary equivalent on historic values, because prices of different things have changed by such different amounts. Even something like average wage is a difficult benchmark because the differences between rich and poor, and the numbers of each, were even more marked than they are today.
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How about 'Bow Legs' in which dg walks the parts of the 320 runs in the knowledge's Blue Book that pass through Bow?
dg writes: *cough* |
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Bow Bus Stops was obviously a prequal.
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Your answer's right, Man of Kent, bit the explanation isn't. The Bank's calculator shows one pound then equates to 124.81 now, an inflation rate of 12,381% over the period.
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At one time, the Bow Curve was also used for passenger trains as an alternative way to get from Barking to Fenchurch St during engineering works. It was a roundabout way of doing so (via Forest Gate and Stratford) but I suppose it wasn't much longer than going from Barking to Liverpool ST as they do now on weekends.
They may still do this. I remember making many such trips both ways during electrification works in the 70's |
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Matchless reporting d.g.
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Given the paucity of bears in Bow I wonder if Bearbinder (Lane) is a corruption of Bearbeiter - German for various sorts of overseers or workers.
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If you want a giggle, check out the name of the road the "inaccessible row of modern apartments" are on.
I wonder how many other street names have a typo... |
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Hi there,
Do you know if Bryant & May also had a football pitch at their sports ground? They certainly had a team - called Brymay Athletic. Many thanks. Peter |
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