many thanks for all the suggestions. I will read them all and check out the websites. Thank you so much. ally
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1903 Gold Watch £11.11.0 Gold Chain for watch £7.5.0 Tea Service 12/6 Dinner Service 14/6 Folkestone to Deal cheap return fare 1/6
1904 Gold Pin & pair of links £1.1.0 Leg operation £100 guineas Pony Trap from Ramill £30
1905 Lunch at Lyons in London 1/6
1906 Ebony Hair brush 8/6 Tram to Potter Heigham station fare fishermans tickets 1/3 return [probably from Yarmouth]
1907 4 ferns 3/6 Cake Basket £2.2.0 Housekeeper at White Hall Hotel, Hampton Court £36 per year
1908 Massage ankle, ½ hour a day for 35 days £8.15.0 6 Silver Teaspoons & Sugar Tongs in case 25/-
1909 Silver Photo Frame 12/6
1910 Folkestone to Rye by Motor 7/- each
1911 Folkestone to Hastings by Motor 8/- each
1913 Rocking Horse 17/-
1914 Silver & Paste brooch Bow £1.1.
ALL DONE NOW will put these prices on a new thread incase those who may be interested don't look under house prices
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1893 Eye Glasses from Chancery Lane London 2/- Church collection on Hospital Sunday £64 Boat to Cowes from Royal Pier 3/- each 1st class return Carriage from Hotel to Carisbrooke Castle 4d each Newport Church, charged 6d each to be shown around
1894 Wedding invitation cards 14/6 for 50 Case of fish knives & forks 47/-
1895 Boarding House ‘Pleasance’ in Tunbridge Wells board 7/- per day Let Manor Road House, furnished for 5 weeks at 7 guineas a week 2 Rooms in Montague Terrace Richmond 2½ guineas a week Big Wheel ride for half an hour 1/- each
1896 Train from Tunbridge to Sevenoaks 2/- each to go over Mansion. Violin £15 Necklet 45/- Rooms at Friars Stile Road Richmond 30/- per week Bicycle £14.14.0
1897 Dinner Servive 35/- House in Kingsnorth Gardens sold for £800, resold shortly after for £850. Dance at Masonic Hall, Hall £2.2.0, Band £2.2.0, Supper 2/- per head.
1898 Bicycle £18
1900 To Staines by the Duke of York 3/6 each return [probably from Richmond] Ride round Edinburgh by Cable Tram then by a char a banc to the Forth Bridge 1/3 each 1d for a ride in a shakey little motor car at Haymarket Duke of Atholl’s Private grounds including guide 2/- each
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1885 Made 14 pots of marmalade, 16 oranges 1/-, 10lbs sugar at 2¼ per lb. Steamboat from Charing Cross pier to Hampton Court 1/6 each. Lunch on board 2/- each.
1886 Fruit cheap this year Plums ½ per gall, damsons 9d
1887 Easter Communion Service 330 there collection was £58 Tram in Chester 3d charge for any distance Lunch of Stout, bread & cheese on Snowdon 2/6 each Lunch at ‘The Goat’ 2/6 each Conway Water Falls, 2d to go down path to deep revine. Fairy Glen 2d
1888 Washing Machine £2.15.0
1889 Gold Chain from O’Clee’s £8.0.0 Childs Doll 9/- Silver Chain 18/6 Board & Lodging at Paddlesworth, child age 14 10/- other children 7/6 per week
1890 Pepper’s Ghost Entertainment & The Flying Dutchman in Torquay, seats 2/-
1891 Carpet for church vestry, art square from Lewis & Goole’s £1.10.0 12 menu holders £2.8.0
1892 Umbrella 11/11 Train from Leamington to Warwick 3d each 24 wine glasses & 2 decanters from Popes 35/-
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If anyone is interested, this site will give what the pound/shillings/pence from yesteryear is worth today plus all sots of other info:-
http://measuringworth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/
example - Servant girl 1884, £10 year equates to £716.31 using the retail price index in 2006.
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1881 Coal Vase from Astons & Greens in London £2.4.0, original price £4.0.0 Servant Girl £10 per year Toy Clockwork Train 7/6 Silver plated tea, coffee, milk and sugar pots with inscription, presented to Grandpa, cost about £12.0.0 New Boots, 2 pairs from Normans £2.0.0 La Favorita, 15/- seats in stalls. Drugget in Dining Room £1.1.0 Lodging at Stouting for a while for children to get over illness, paying 18/- a week for lodging, 2 bedrooms and use of dining room for meals, meals charged accordingly. Housekeeping money 35/- a week husband agreed to increase to £2.0.0 per week. 78 acres of grazing land in the Marsh called Guildeford Lane (Kent) £7000 Fur Mantle from Mays 3½ guineas Umbrella 25/-
1882 Nurse after baby born for 3 weeks 12/- per week Dining Room Curtains 24/- Gold Broach £2.12.6 6 plated fish knives & forks from Reich’s £2.13.6 Biscuit Tin 25/- Plated Hot Water Jug 27/6 Oval Mirror on velvet with vase attached for flowers £1.1.0 Ladies Laced Boots from Franks 18/9 Gold Bracelet £5.5.0
1883 Dined at Table d’hote at the Criterion in London 3/6 each but bill ran up to 13/- Bought house in Tontine Street Folkestone £375 with £10 per year ground rent. Mirror framed in wreath of Worcester China on velvet bracket 30/- Meat price gone up, Shoulders Mutton 1/- lb and B E neck ½ Friends to visit, found them a room for 1/6 per night
1884 Servant girl £10 per year Nurse 2/- per week Boots 2 pairs 18/9 & 10/9 Stock Gyll Force 3d each to go in grounds High charges at hotel, glass of beer 3d, Bottle of Lemonade 6d, Cold lunch of bread, meat & chesses 3/- each.
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This may not be what you want but it may be of interest to someone.
1874 House Servant £9 per year
1875 Bedroom Couch £1.1.0 Young Servant £7 per year Gold Locket Chain from Haywards £5.10s
1876 Lustres in Drawing Room 21/- Sewing Machine from Musgraves £4.10.0
1878 Butter dish, glass & silver from Haywards £1.0.0 5 teeth stopped & 2 of husbands cost 30/- Thimble steel & silver from Haywards 2/-
1879 Servant Girl £10 per year Servant Girl £12 per year Curtains in Drawing Room from Faggs 25/- Cigar Stand from Uptons 7/6 Boots for 2 year old 13/- Black Silk Jacket £3.15.0
1880 Feather Bed from Tyler in London £6.15.0 was cost price Blue & gold Dinner Set from Wilson £2.15.0 Girl to help servant 1/6 per week Drawing Room Clock at Darleys £4.0.0 Large pair Vases from Popes £1.1.0 Bonnet 29/6 Photod at Blackalls 5/6 for 6 Boots from Franks £1.1.0 Umbrella from Bretts 7.11 Black & Beige Costume £1.12.10 Childs Costume & pinafore 15.7 China Flower Basket at Popes 12/6 marked 15/- Child’s Highland Suit at Joseph’s 22/- marked 26/-
I'll put the items from 1881 on a bit later I'm sure somewhere there was entered the price of potatoes.
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It may be on the Victorian web site www.thevictorianweb.org is the address I think! It is a huge resource on all things Victorian.
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I have got a copy of an old diary with prices of various things in it. Will copy out the prices.
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hi there, need information regardin house prices, beer prices, bread etc of 1880ish. Need the information to be copywrite free. Can anyone help me. thanks bongo
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