Guess the date of these job ads

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I found an old newspaper, and I was surprised that these ads appeared when they did. Would anyone like to guess the date? I'll post just one to start with, as I tried to post two at once, and the MN server didn't like it.

Mid nineties.

One of those must be late nineties /early 2000's as it has a 6 digit phone numbers starting with 4

I’m going for early 60s

Actually, I'm going to revise my guess to mid-1950s, because there are no regional dialling codes given for the phone numbers!

I noticed that the phone numbers are peculiar in these ads. Some of them have only four digits, and some of them have more. It's a local paper, so I'd imagine that only local people would be applying ... so maybe there was no need to put codes??

Ooh you must be near me if that's a local newspaper <waves>

I once went for a job interview that was next to Fox's biscuits factory. You could smell the biscuits baking.

I'm going to guess 1973 just for the hell of it.

I remember going for a summer job in the early 1990s and I remember being told that the pay for 'a young lady like me' was £6500 per year.

Afterwards, I wish I'd had the guts to ask what the pay would have been if I was a man, or if I was older than the teenager I was at the time as that place definitely had 'men's jobs' and women's jobs' even though they were all basic warehouse work that would be classed as equal worth in a job evaluation assessment.

I would also say the mid-seventies.

1992

Hah, that's where my guess came from.

The six digit number starting with a 4 that is. For some reason didn't quote the post.

Mid 1970s at a guess

Ooh you must be near me if that's a local newspaper

I am at the moment. waves back. I was born and grew up around here. I don't live here all the time now, though, I just visit a lot.

All you people guessing 1990s....I know things have progressed since then, but it wasn't THAT bad! I left university in 1989 and certainly wasn't seeing job ads that required me to be a "girl".

People used to describe their phone number as town 123456 rather than 0222 123456. I can't remember when people stopped doing that?

Perhaps when people started to move around more and got familiar with more telephone codes than the local 2 or 3 that they'd remember? Or when you no longer had to phone the operator to ask for a connection? 1960s??

I’m guessing 1968

No one has got the exact year yet, but there are a lot of people very, very close. Shall I tell you, or do you want to guess some more?

1993?

Tell us! My guess is 1981.

Tell. Nothing worse than these things going on forever

I think 1991

1971?

Impossible to get a part time job around here at the moment it feels like. At least there were some options!!

I'm guessing 1975.

1959

1983?

60's.

Tell. Nothing worse than these things going on forever

Fair enough.

The newspaper was published on Friday June 14th 1974.

I thought it was interesting, and shocking, as the ads seemed more 50s than 70s. I was around in 1974, and I don't remember it being that bad.