Paying £1.42 a litre for diesel i have just checked online and the cost of petrol in 1976 was £0.76p a gallon. 1976 was when i left school.I worked at Grandways supermarket chain on Roundhay Road in Leeds , i worked from five until nine Thursday and Friday nights and all day Saturday i think my wage was £5.50p a week , i use to go to Jumbo Records and buy a second hand pre recorded cassette tape of slade , yes or David bowie and Elton John or one just because i use to like the look of the art work on the cover ELP Brain Salad Surgery and ELO being two i remember.
Two girls who i worked at Grandways with where murdered one being Jayne MacDonald a victim of the Yorkshire Ripper and was only sixteen when she was brutally murdered her father died a few years later of a broken heart.

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*THE PHOTO ABOVE IS THE POLICE SEARCH OF THE AREA HER BODY WAS FOUND

The second killing i have trouble remembering it happened not long after Jayne was taken but might have been a year or 18 months and as far as i can recall she was stabbed in the door way of a working mans club. i think near to or in either Horsforth or Meanwood , two people i knew of being murdered was a scary thought hopefully it will never get to three.

Thinking back to 1976 i remember going to the Dock Green public House with my sisters and mother on a Saturday night in my wrangler jeans and Ben Sherman shirt and drinking special brew three bottles was my limit , I am bragging more like two ,and putting 10p in to the Jukebox so i could listen to Bob Marley the Exodus single was just out and i loved it i ended up buying all the cassettes after that album came out Kaya , Survival and Babylon by bus and the last one Uprising i was travelling to work when it came on the radio that he had deid this was in 1981 i was gutted.

Today is grey and wet and boring i just might reminisce all day and go online checking the 1970's out films and records and try and remember it all.
I remember my Dad saying he wouldnt pay the prices in town for a cup of coffee when you could buy a full jar of coffee for the same price he would wait and have one at home , with the prices Starbucks charge its nice to know somethings haven't changed , i have just finished typing this and the sun is out BRILLIANT lol.