Wages Per Year:
- 5 Pounds - Head housemaid, 1761
- 7 Pounds - Head footman, 1761
- 22 shillings, 6 pence (per week) - Pickman for the canals work groups
building the canals
- 24 shillings (per week) - Shoveller for the canal work groups
- 33 shillings (per week) - skilled men such as bricklayers and masons
- 11 - 14 Pounds - Housemaid, 1850's and 1860's, 12 - 22 Pounds in 1894
- 11 - 17 Pounds - Cooks, 1850's and 1860's
- 20 Pounds (per week) - Singer at the Canterbury Music Hall
- 1000 Pounds (per week) - Sarah Bernhardt at the Coliseum Variety
House
- 18 Pounds - Lady's-maid, 1865
- 12 Pounds - Scullery Maid, 1865
- 17 Pounds - Nurse-maids
- 50 Pounds - Cook, 1865
- 40 Pounds - Coachman, 1865
- 60 Pounds - Valet, 1865, 70 Pounds in 1894
- 90 Pounds - Gardener, 1865
- Duke of Bedford - 300,000 Pounds (about $90 million US)
- Duke of Westminster - 250,000 Pounds (just from London properties)
- 17 Shillings, 6 Pence - average weekly earnings for farm worker in
1906
- Agricultural Labourers
- £17, 15s., 7d. average yearly nominal income, 1710.
- Day Labourers
- 16 to 18 pence a day
- General Labourers
- £19, 4s., 5d. average yearly nominal income, 1710
- Messengers, Porters (exc. govt.)
- £31, 3s., average yearly nominal income, 1710.
- Miners
- £22, 9s., 2d. average yearly nominal income, 1710.
Costs in the 1850's
- Seat in the body of the Canterbury hall, a popular tavern concert
room - 6 pence
- Seat in the gallery of the Canterbury - 9 pence
Costs in the 1860's
- Gallery seat at South London Palace of Varieties in Lambeth - 3
pence; balcony and stalls - 1 shilling
- Good seat plus a five-course meal at the Oxford Music Hall - 2
shillings, 6 pence
- Flat rate fare for the City and South London railway in 1890 - 2
pence
- Electric Victoria car whose driver sat on a platform above the rear
wheels looking over the heads of the 2 passengers and could travel 40
miles on a charge at a max speed of 12 miles per hour - 570 Pounds
Costs in 1906
- Rent - 1 shilling 6 pence
- 3 lbs. of Sugar - 5-1/2 pence
- 1/2 lb. of tea - 8 pence
- 1-1/2lbs. of butter - 1 shilling 6 pence
- 1 pint of beer - 2 pence
- 2 oz tobacco - 6 pence
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