https://victorianweb.org/history/work/nelson1.html
https://victorianweb.org/economics/wages4.html
https://victorianweb.org/economics/wages.html
Mr. Patterson found the following information on the cost of living in England in 1888 in an article entitled “Life on a Guinea a Week” in The Nineteenth Century (1888), p. 464. Prices are in Pounds (£)/ Shillings (S)/ Pence (d).
Average Weekly Expenditure
Item S/d
Meat 4/0
Bread (10 loaves) 2/3.5
Flour 2/0
Vegetables (18 lbs) 1/0
Other Vegetables 0/4
Butter 1/0
Fruit 1/6
Milk (1 1/2d per day) 0/10.5
Tea (1/2 lb) 1/0
Cocoa (1/2 lb) 0/6
Sugar (4 lbs) /0/10
Soap (1 1/2 lbs) 0/6
Soda, starch, blue 0/.5
Candles 0/1
Parafin (1/2 gallon a fortnight)
[Kerosene] 0/3
Coal (1 cwt) 1/3
Beer (3 pints at 3 1/2d) 0/10.5
Rent 5/6
Boots (for whole family) 1/8
Clothes for the man 1/0
Clothes for wife and children 2/0
School fees 0/4
Provident Club [savings] 1/6.5
Medical attendance
wife & children 0/3
Yearly Expenditure
Item £/S/d
Rent 105/0/0
Rates and taxes
including gas 28/18/10
Coals 12/8/6
Wages 48/2/1
Food: Butcher 46/9/11
Food: Baker 9/8/8
Food: Dairyman 35/4/8
Food: Grocer 38/8/10
Food: Greengrover 10/6/0
Food: Poulterer 10/3/7
Dress: Wife 35/8/4
Dress: Husband 19/17/3
Washing 34/14/9
Doctor & chemist 33/1/0
Traveling & tips 43/7/5
Local traveling 19/17/9
Stamps 7/16/7
Stationery 8/1/3
Pleasures, presents
Smoking 35/18/2
Wine 15/0/8
House repairs 26/12/10
Garden 4/13/9
Balance 50/19/2
Clothing
Item £/S/d
1 overcoat 1/15/0
1 umbrella -/7/6
1 hat -/2/6
1 silk hat -/7/6
1 week-day suit 2/0/0
1 Sunday suit 2/10/0
1 pair socks -/1-/10
1 pair boots -/10/6
repairing boots -/6/0
1 under vest -/2/6
1 flannel shirt -/3/0
1 collar -/-/5
1 pair cuffs -/-/8
cutton, buttons -/0/1
Weekly Prices
Item £/S/d
Rent 0/6/0
Breakfasts 0/1/8
Dinners 0/5/0
Teas 0/1/0
Boot-cleaning 0/0/3
Coal and Wood 0/1/0
Washing 0/0/9
Tobacco, etc. 0/0/6
Kelly’s Directory 1882
https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/326704