Remember selling the Evening News outside a factory in Lewisham and then door knocking on nearby estates with the Saturday late edition back in the 70's. Shocked to find out yesterday that a copy of the Guardian was £3.50 ffs !
I'm still a 7 day a week newspaper man but we are literally a dying breed. Still get them delivered through the door. When I moved here 26 years ago the newsagent had 12 different rounds done by 12 different paperboys/girls, now there is 1.
My round was out of Blackheath station, the far end of Blackheath Park and Morden Road.
Don't think I ever bought a paper back in the 90s or 2000s, just got on a train and there was always disregarded papers lying around. Used to collect all the sport segments to take home and read.
First experience of mainstream media bias --hunting for Charlton's result in the standard as a kid, for a game I knew had happened, yet not to be found. Then occasionally not listed in fixture lists, reports on matches non-existent, missing in league tables (sometimes cut off if we were outside the top portion or completely missing if we were at the bottom), and never sympathetic to the sport as a whole during the more troubled times of the 80s (no surprise there).
Served its’ initial purpose for the owner, but then failed dismally after that. Won’t be missed, it’s really just become a few pages of advertisements these days.
Not upset to see the demise of the Standard - London always too big for effective 'local' newspaper coverage, especially football given the number of teams (so much easier in, say, New York when you only have two teams to worry about). Plus you attract journalists who fancy themselves as 'national' reporters.
Decline of print newspaper readership is inevitable but not entirely positive. Social media, with its filtering and hyper-targeting, is no substitute for a well-curated roundup of news, including the chance of scanning items/stories you might otherwise miss
Always bought The Standard on the way home from town, mostly Charing X - checking it was the late edition of course!
Me too.
Commuted into London from 1983 to 1990
Always bought the ES. Had the correct money ready so I could just grab & go when in a rush for the train. Oh for the summer days when you could read the latest cricket scores at the bottom of the back page. As @Bobmunro says......had to be the Late Edition.
I'm still a 7 day a week newspaper man but we are literally a dying breed. Still get them delivered through the door. When I moved here 26 years ago the newsagent had 12 different rounds done by 12 different paperboys/girls, now there is 1.
My round was out of Blackheath station, the far end of Blackheath Park and Morden Road.
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.
I was a paper boy from 1980 to 1983. Worked from the newsagents on the corner of Dartford road & Baldwyns Park. My 1st round was the Joydens Road estate, then Baldwyns Park (rd) and then Cold Blow.
I'm still a 7 day a week newspaper man but we are literally a dying breed. Still get them delivered through the door. When I moved here 26 years ago the newsagent had 12 different rounds done by 12 different paperboys/girls, now there is 1.
My round was out of Blackheath station, the far end of Blackheath Park and Morden Road.
I was a morning paper round boy. Started at Standard roundabout, then up towards Blackheath and back towards the Standard on A2
The paper shop was on Old Dover Road, by the Sun In The Sands, most of the area now gone.
Like many, I used to read a national paper every day and the pink on Saturday evening. Now with internet, never buy one.
As I worked for the KM, I could not get The Standard
I'm still a 7 day a week newspaper man but we are literally a dying breed. Still get them delivered through the door. When I moved here 26 years ago the newsagent had 12 different rounds done by 12 different paperboys/girls, now there is 1.
My round was out of Blackheath station, the far end of Blackheath Park and Morden Road.
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.
I was a paper boy from 1980 to 1983. Worked from the newsagents on the corner of Dartford road & Baldwyns Park. My 1st round was the Joydens Road estate, then Baldwyns Park (rd) and then Cold Blow.
I did a paper round for about a week but it got in the way of my work ethic of doing next to nought.
I'm still a 7 day a week newspaper man but we are literally a dying breed. Still get them delivered through the door. When I moved here 26 years ago the newsagent had 12 different rounds done by 12 different paperboys/girls, now there is 1.
My round was out of Blackheath station, the far end of Blackheath Park and Morden Road.
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.
I was a paper boy from 1980 to 1983. Worked from the newsagents on the corner of Dartford road & Baldwyns Park. My 1st round was the Joydens Road estate, then Baldwyns Park (rd) and then Cold Blow.
I did a round on the Glyndon Estate (Robert Street) 1970-71 from the newsagents in the Brewery Road parade. Loved Saturdays as not as many had a paper, hated Sundays as the bag was three times as heavy with all the supplements! Got promoted to marker-up in 71 - double the money (£1.50 a week) but had to start an hour earlier at 6.00am. - but I was warm and dry!
Wednesday was the day of choice for construction self employed jobs. Regularly referred to as the jackers journal. as in jacking your job in after securing another via Wednesdays paper.
I'm still a 7 day a week newspaper man but we are literally a dying breed. Still get them delivered through the door. When I moved here 26 years ago the newsagent had 12 different rounds done by 12 different paperboys/girls, now there is 1.
My round was out of Blackheath station, the far end of Blackheath Park and Morden Road.
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.
I was a paper boy from 1980 to 1983. Worked from the newsagents on the corner of Dartford road & Baldwyns Park. My 1st round was the Joydens Road estate, then Baldwyns Park (rd) and then Cold Blow.
I'm still a 7 day a week newspaper man but we are literally a dying breed. Still get them delivered through the door. When I moved here 26 years ago the newsagent had 12 different rounds done by 12 different paperboys/girls, now there is 1.
My round was out of Blackheath station, the far end of Blackheath Park and Morden Road.
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.
I was a paper boy from 1980 to 1983. Worked from the newsagents on the corner of Dartford road & Baldwyns Park. My 1st round was the Joydens Road estate, then Baldwyns Park (rd) and then Cold Blow.
Golfie, I worked in that same Baldwyns Park shop from 1984 to 1985. I was in the 6th form at Wilmington Grammar and cycled there for a 6am start. Marked all the round up and then went to school. Earned just enough to go to football. Remember being terrified of the Bexley patients walking around the heath when I cycled there in the dark across Dartford Heath.
Shame its gone but it has lost its way. I remember as a kid in the 1960's delivering the standard and news after school and on Saturdays picking up the late football edition on the way home
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My round was out of Blackheath station, the far end of Blackheath Park and Morden Road.
Absolute good riddance to it.
Decline of print newspaper readership is inevitable but not entirely positive. Social media, with its filtering and hyper-targeting, is no substitute for a well-curated roundup of news, including the chance of scanning items/stories you might otherwise miss
Commuted into London from 1983 to 1990
Always bought the ES. Had the correct money ready so I could just grab & go when in a rush for the train. Oh for the summer days when you could read the latest cricket scores at the bottom of the back page. As @Bobmunro says......had to be the Late Edition.
I was a paper boy from 1980 to 1983. Worked from the newsagents on the corner of Dartford road & Baldwyns Park. My 1st round was the Joydens Road estate, then Baldwyns Park (rd) and then Cold Blow.
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The paper shop was on Old Dover Road, by the Sun In The Sands, most of the area now gone.
Like many, I used to read a national paper every day and the pink on Saturday evening. Now with internet, never buy one.
As I worked for the KM, I could not get The Standard
Refused to read it ever since, even when it was free.
Charlton coverage was generally appalling anyway.
I did a round on the Glyndon Estate (Robert Street) 1970-71 from the newsagents in the Brewery Road parade. Loved Saturdays as not as many had a paper, hated Sundays as the bag was three times as heavy with all the supplements! Got promoted to marker-up in 71 - double the money (£1.50 a week) but had to start an hour earlier at 6.00am. - but I was warm and dry!
Regularly referred to as the jackers journal.
as in jacking your job in after securing another via Wednesdays paper.
Its too easy on here. 😉
I remember as a kid in the 1960's delivering the standard and news after school and on Saturdays picking up the late football edition on the way home