I remember in 1969/70 I was on about £8 a week, because it gave me £5 a week to give to my mother and the three left covered all my food and fares to work. Later, when I got my own bedsit, the rent was £4.10s a week and I could walk to work. I lived for a while on those Vesta boil in the bag curries, remember those? Yummee.