Today’s Inspector Morse ....

[Draytonian III]

...Lewis has just bought TWO pints of hand pull and paid £1.98 in total !!!

[idler]

...Lewis has just bought TWO pints of hand pull and paid £1.98 in total !!!

Was he in the House of Commons canteen? 😉

[Axholme Lion]

...Lewis has just bought TWO pints of hand pull and paid £1.98 in total !!!

Was he in the House of Commons canteen? 😉

Do they pay anything?

[turnbull for england]

Was a pound a pint in canal tavern 1990 , so in Oxford it must have been a 1970s episode

[Bentley Bullet]

Good old Wetherspoons.

[Draytonian III]

Was a pound a pint in canal tavern 1990 , so in Oxford it must have been a 1970s episode

So roughly beer has gone up fourfold in 30 years, I don’t think much else has had that increase

[idler]

Don't forget the government increasing the duty year on year. They ignored the cheap beer available in supermarkets of course.

[Dutch Uncle]

Was a pound a pint in canal tavern 1990 , so in Oxford it must have been a 1970s episode

Reckon it must have been later than that.

When I started studying in Oxford in 1969 the Eastgate was my nearest pub (<20 yards away) and a pint cost 1 shilling and 10 pence (less than 10p in new money).

Google search says a pint was about 35p in 1980

And Lewis bought TWO pints for 1.98, so 99p each. So about 1990 then?

Edfit: Just as a comparison, in 1970 the average wage was about 1665 Pounds per year and my student grant was 420 pounds per year to cover food, lodging, books, clothes (including required academic dress, bought second/third hand) and everything else. I won a scholarship of 60 pounds a year on top of that, worked any jobs going in summer holidays, and left with no debt but less than 10 pounds to my name. I was chosen for a Combined Universities subsidised once ina lifetime sporting tour of east coast USA, and had to withdraw because I had no chance of finding 100 pounds.

I cannot say how fortunate I was. I am sure today's students are far far worse off whilst studying, and then end up with all the debt afterwards.

[redwine]

I was the same DU, student from 1978. Small grant and no debt at the end.

Shame the politician's  saw fit to pull the ladder up behind them.

[Dutch Uncle]

I was the same DU, student from 1978. Small grant and no debt at the end.

Shame the politician's  saw fit to pull the ladder up behind them.

My opinion is that they went too far in expanding the number of Universities and students. 38 Universities in 1969 is now something like 130, before counting all the other tertiary colleges and institutions. No way of providing grants for all of that lot. Yes it needed expanding, but I think more vocational courses could have been set up in parallel.

Hindsight is such a wonderful thing 

[IDM]

“When I were a lad...”

[Dutch Uncle]

I mean when I said I was fortunate, it was tough, 29 of us in a paper bag for a lecture hall.............

[IDM]

A paper bag.?

Luxury.!