So Bob Cratchit would have been paid £2,881.51pa in today’s money for a 40 hour work week. If he still did a 60 hour week it’d be £4322.26.

So Scrooge was a certified bastard, but at least he didn’t spend his money on space ships or AI

40 hours per week at 1.25p per hour is £26pa (we can assume he wouldn’t get any time off so we can do that as a 52 week year rather than a 48 week year), £26 in 1843 vs today, is a change in value of 10982.7% with an average annual inflation rate over the intervening 182 years of 2.61%

There are a couple of brilliant pubs just round the corner from the catholic cathedral - the White Hart and the Philarmonic

These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
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Hoo, this blew up. If you like this sort of thing you should probably buy Private Eye - I write the Street of Shame pages about newspaper ridiculousness there.

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