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I was Sunday kitchen porter at the Grand (in Eastbourne, not Brighton) in the mid 1980s - got £35 for a morning’s work. It wasn’t the most pleasant work, but it paid well for a 16 year old.

I did a morning round six days a week in the early/mid 80s, not Sunday. Part of it was in a set of flats, so I was terrible for sitting on the stairs reading the papers rather than delivering them. The older residents of the flats used to say "Here's two shillings as a tip" and hand me 10p at...