Property News · June 16, 2016

One more step towards revolution in Wiltshire | Brief letters


High rents in the 1960s | ‘Plinth’ as a beautiful word | Contactless payments | Touristic irony | Letters from WiltshireRe your article (Rent for one-bed flat now takes up half young workers’ pay, 13 June), I worked for the BBC from 1961 to 1971. My pay was £6 15s a week when I started work in Langham Place. Rent for staying in a dormitory at the YWCA in Chelsea was £3 10s a week. I managed to get thrown out and moved into a two-bedroom flat in Notting Hill Gate (pretty rough in ’61) and shared a bedroom as we were five girls. The rent was £3 15s. I never paid less than 50% of my pay in rent until I got married in ’67. So I was still sharing a bedroom and dammit, I still am.Lynn WisemanLewes, East Sussex• Patrick Barkham (Notebook, 14 June) suggests that words are beautiful either because they sound beautiful or because they conjure a beautiful image. There are alternatives. My favourite word is “plinth”. Not because the word is beautiful, even less because a plinth is beautiful, but because of the beautiful things you have to do with your mouth, tongue and teeth to pronounce it well.Stuart CurrieBarnsley, South Yorkshire Continue reading…

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