Daily Mail - what you could have bought in the 1950s

Ian_W

Meanmachine wrote: Not as wise as stocks and shares, apparently, but wise nonetheless. I've never denied that.

But nobody would have lent me the money to invest in Stocks & Shares, even if I had the nouse to back the winners rather than losers, which if "past performance" with the GG's is concerned - I probably wouldn't!
But I do agree it's interesting, didn't think there was a political point and moggy is a damn fine writer. Just think this his experience of the housing market might not be shared by about 99.999999999% of the populus.

ManAtHome

But he could probably have bought the 'sunflowers' piccie for the same amount in the 50s - would be worth zillions by now. Forget houses - buy artworks from somebody who isn't famous now, but will be in 20 years time. !!!!!!, just blown my 'certain way to be a zillionaire' ebay advert...

Ian_W

Tried that with a Gainsborough once but the BS turned me down flat. Said something about it "being of non-standard construction".

ManAtHome

Ian_W wrote:

if we went away we hired Ford Anglia's mostly

Ford Anglia - posh.. Dad had an assortment of Humbers and Austins, all just about hanging together. Sure I remember one or two with handles inside connected to wipers, and one definitely had a (non working) valve radio. All of them had sticky-out trafficators until he bought a renault dauphin (sp?) in the late 60s.

Spendless wrote:

Do you know of others who were also home-owners at that time or was it just your parents?

Quite a lot of them were being bought, the entire street (and several others) were CPd in the early 70s and there was quite a good turnout at various meetings (which ended up being a waste of time). Parents would have been mid 30s when they first bought - don't think it would have been that unusual at the time.?