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Updated: Jan 14, 2021


£1 in 1883 = £70 today

I shilling = £3.30 today

1 penny = 28p today


£1 was 3 days wages for skilled tradesman


From Mid Sussex Times advertisement, Tuesday 18 December 1883


Currency inflation conversion figures from National Archive.


Contributed by Malcolm Davison.

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