{"id":16680,"date":"2016-06-16T01:19:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/one-more-step-towards-revolution-in-wiltshire-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T01:21:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:21:34","slug":"one-more-step-towards-revolution-in-wiltshire-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/one-more-step-towards-revolution-in-wiltshire-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"One more step towards revolution in Wiltshire | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHigh rents in the 1960s | \u2018Plinth\u2019 as a beautiful word | Contactless payments | Touristic irony | Letters from WiltshireRe your article (Rent for one-bed flat now takes up half young workers\u2019 pay, 13 June), I worked for the BBC from 1961 to 1971. My pay was \u00a36 15s a week when I started work in Langham Place. Rent for staying in a dormitory at the YWCA in Chelsea was \u00a33 10s a week. I managed to get thrown out and moved into a two-bedroom flat in Notting Hill Gate (pretty rough in \u201961) and shared a bedroom as we were five girls. The rent was \u00a33 15s. I never paid less than 50% of my pay in rent until I got married in \u201967. So I was still sharing a\u00a0bedroom and dammit, I still am.Lynn WisemanLewes, East Sussex\u2022 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 \u201cplinth\u201d. 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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