10 pounds would have been a decent monthly wage for a skilled worker in the 1910s.
(According to my sources, a book-binder or cabinet maker, to give two example of skilled trades, would have been paid about 50 shillings, or two and a half pounds (20 shillings in a pound) a week, on the outbreak of WW1 – so 2.5 x 4 = 10 pounds a month.)
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10 pounds would have been a decent monthly wage for a skilled worker in the 1910s.
(According to my sources, a book-binder or cabinet maker, to give two example of skilled trades, would have been paid about 50 shillings, or two and a half pounds (20 shillings in a pound) a week, on the outbreak of WW1 – so 2.5 x 4 = 10 pounds a month.)