Grassland Blue
Well-Known Member
I worked on the railway at Manchester Victoria when Maxwell took over MGN.If anyone was going to have a sudden clutcher, it was Robert Maxwell. My dad was a printer and he too had his pension robbed by that ****. To want a conspiracy theory to justify it, or square it off, or give it a bigger reason, is silly. he was just a fat thief who croaked it. If he wasnt on a boat he would have gone face first into his patio. The Mossad stuff is unnecessary too. Shades of A-S. He just died, and good riddance. I have lived with the fall out. My old man printed all his papers and still isnt over it to this day and neither would I be.
One thing he did was take the transport of MGN newspapers off the railway and sent them by road instead. (TNT).
This meant that costs of running the newspaper trains fell onto the shoulders of the remaining publishers and subsequently spelt the end of efficient services into Yorkshire, East and West Lancashire and Merseyside.
The 'Printworks', as it is now, is home to restaurants, bars and a cinema complex etc.