John Newport wrote: > Does anyone have any idea if there's a website or a book that gives some > idea of the cost of living in England in the 1890s, please? I've been > reading about wages/salaries but, of course, the figures are meaningless > without any idea of what food and clothing, etc., cost. My grandfather was > earning 100GBP a year, in 1895, but was this good or not-so-good? I'd have said pretty good. I was earning 520GBP pa 70 years later and that was considered good money at the time. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk