Paper Lads......and Lasses

[blue b4 the moon]

Did them all, mornings, evenings & Sundays at various times, paid for my away games.

In the school holidays I'd also do the Ashton Reporter too.

I was fit as fuck then, my round included the 4 blocks of 12 story flats off Richmond St, used to run up the stairs with a full bag.....I'd be lucky to walk down all those stairs now with a paper under my arm.

 

[paul]

I used to have a paper round at Joes on Walmer Street and met the love of my life there,Karen,and I never got over her.

 

[Dicko69]

I used to have a paper round at Joes on Walmer Street and met the love of my life there,Karen,and I never got over her.

Time can make the memory hazy, but I'd say you had a lucky escape from @kaz7

 

[Bobby the blue]

I did one for about a year when I was 13/14 but had to sack it off due to being lazy. I used to get some of the local kids to help me out and would buy them a mars bar or milkshake to say thanks.

One thing that I always remember is one winter’s morning I pushed a paper through a letterbox and the door opened.
I was going to walk in to make sure all was ok then I suddenly remembered that paperboy that was murdered after stumbling across a burglary so instead I ran off.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Had a girlfriend whose Dad was a Sunday paper distributor. If I wanted to see her on a Saturday night, it had to include adding Sunday supplements to the papers!

To all those people around Ashton who didn’t always get a Sunday supplement around 1980, my apologies for your loss, but my thanks for the sex education!

 

[nellyonthewing]

If only Kiplings knew the secrets them woods used to hold...lol...I'm from Benchill rd originally...Remember when we used to go and watch the city team training at Wythy Park.

We had a trench system by the brook on Heybrook Rd with stockpiles of duckers just in case Benchill kids attempted an invasion. Haveley Hey chippy on a Friday night was an essential bike ride.
I used to talk with Big Dave Ewing when city were training, great guy.

 

[nellyonthewing]

Was that Partridge Drive / Ave ?

Yes but maybe the really big houses on Saxfield Drive off Partridge.
Alllisons dog 'Pele' used to crap on our lawn but that was OK by me..

 

[-dabz-]

We had a trench system by the brook on Heybrook Rd with stockpiles of duckers just in case Benchill kids attempted an invasion. Haveley Hey chippy on a Friday night was an essential bike ride.
I used to talk with Big Dave Ewing when city were training, great guy.

"Duckers" lol....not heard that in years...

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Had a girlfriend whose Dad was a Sunday paper distributor. If I wanted to see her on a Saturday night, it had to include adding Sunday supplements to the papers!

To all those people around Ashton who didn’t always get a Sunday supplement around 1980, my apologies for your loss, but my thanks for the sex education!

Why did the houses with the most/biggest papers full of supplements always have the smallest letterboxes?

Used to really piss me off pulling a paper apart to get it through the door.

 

[BlueTG]

Had a Monday-Saturday then a Sunday round for a few years after in my teens. Around Scunthorpe tho.

A milf used to occasionally come to the door in her dressing gown and collect it, once got some tit slip in when it came apart. Fond memories.