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.

I thought my parents had a 4 inserted into their number earlier than that... my old phone book, which dates from when we married in 1986 has the 4 in and it doesn't look like it was added later.

I'll try 1984 as my guess.

1982

I thought postcodes were a more recent thing but apparatus they started in 1957 ( although not for everywhere, we didn’t have them In Middlesex in 1967.)

Thank you, great idea!

Cross-posted with you, Errol. It's behind you!

Wow, 1974! Things have definitely changed in my lifetime.

Old magazines are a revelation too - full of crash diet tips, screamingly sexist advertising, and how to look after your man.....

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

It looks to me as if there was a wider variety of jobs. There was certainly much more manufacturing around here. There are a lot of ads in this paper for all manner of jobs in factories. All those trades gone - it's sad.

1978

Oh dear I missed the answer but was close. I worked with a woman in 1989 who had been sacked in the 1960’s because she had married.

Some crackers here

This is my favourite.

imgur.com/gallery/9C0XT

I tried to upload it, but MN isn't playing ball with the images today.

I worked with a woman in 1989 who had been sacked in the 1960’s because she had married

That was quite common, sadly. Lots of jobs were only open to single women. And the pay for women who were doing to same job as men was so much less - that used to drive my mother absolutely insane, as before she married, she worked in an office on about two-thirds of the pay of the men there.

They're good ones, Barbara! I like your favourite.

Glad it's not just me - so many disagreed - however I remember us getting a '4' on the front of ours and GP's numbers and I wasn't born until towards the end of the 80's

...Also knew someone who was fired from a 'household name' pram factory when she fell pregnant. 1980s.

@ErrolTheDragon i remember ours and GO's having the 4 added and I wasn't born until towards end of the 80's

I'm trying to think of when the number of my childhood home changed from four digits to six ... I can't, but it was quite late. It made no difference to my parents, though - they had always answered the phone with the name of the town and the four digits ... and after the change, they just ignored the two new digits and went on answering the phone with the old, shorter, number, right up to the end of their lives.

The other weird thing about phones that I remember is having a party line - ie, the number was shared with one or more neighbours, and sometimes it was impossible to make or receive a call, because a neighbour was already on the phone. You picked the phone up and heard their conversation.

Oh yes - and Dial-A-Disc. You could ring a number and listen to a pop song down the phone. The song changed once a week. We all used to do that - although god knows why. I suppose there wasn't much entertainment in the early 70s. It was quite exciting finding out which song it was going to be that week!

and a lot people who lived during these times sadly hold very sexist views for women

still*

Those adverts would have been unlawful since The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 but I'm surprised that they were as late as 1974.

Where I lived as a child (Somerset) the four digit phone numbers changed to give digits in the early-mid 1970s if I remember rightly, and didn't go up to six digits until well into the 1980s.

My last boss definitely still had that mindset (Finance). He wouldn't say it as that would 'get him into trouble', but he definitely had the vacancy m/f categorised and pay scaled accordingly in his mind before he advertised.

Apologies for diverting this thread into a debate about regional dialling codes.

Later than we think ? Mid 90s ?

Interesting. But 1974 was almost 50 years ago!!
I wouldn’t like to work in those days, but I am slightly jealous of the shortly worded job ad. It sounds like it would have been more straightforward to actually get a job rather than ponce about with competencies and matching one’s skills to a job profile.

But 1974 was almost 50 years ago

Don't say that @camelfinger it makes those of us born then sound old.

But I agree that it was probably a lot easier to get a job then. Certainly fathers would often take their sons to work with them when they hit 14/15/16 and tell their boss that 'my lad needs a job' and that was that.