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Evening Standard
AFKABartram
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Moving to a weekly paper, begin phasing out Monday and Friday prints from next month.
Used to be such a feature working in the city in the 90s the cries of ‘Staaaaaaandad’ when leaving work.
Used to be such a feature working in the city in the 90s the cries of ‘Staaaaaaandad’ when leaving work.
I used to love reading newspapers. Never read them now.
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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 !
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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.5 -
Always bought The Standard on the way home from town, mostly Charing X - checking it was the late edition of course!
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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.2
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It’s been getting worse and worse since it became free, which is understandable, sad but I’d call it a day now0
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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).
Absolute good riddance to it.2 -
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.0
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I think they’ll all be gone in less than ten years.5
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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 miss1 -
Still read the paper everyday but get it on line no hassle always there and cheaper0
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Old enough to remember two evenings paper in London, the evening standard & the evening news.14
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Me too.bobmunro said:Always bought The Standard on the way home from town, mostly Charing X - checking it was the late edition of course!
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.1 -
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.BrentfordAddick said: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 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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Typical admin, starts a new thread with a story that's 6 weeks old.
https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/comment/5267550
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Their coverage of Charlton has always been abysmal.1
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I was a morning paper round boy. Started at Standard roundabout, then up towards Blackheath and back towards the Standard on A2BrentfordAddick said: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.
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 Standard0 -
I did a paper round for about a week but it got in the way of my work ethic of doing next to nought.golfaddick said:
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.BrentfordAddick said: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 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.1 -
Standard said Charlton Athletic should be allowed to die in 1984 and when Powell was picked to play for England had a headline of "Chris Who?".
Refused to read it ever since, even when it was free.
Charlton coverage was generally appalling anyway.17 -
North of the river paper. No class.0
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golfaddick said:
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.BrentfordAddick said: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 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!
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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.2 -
I'm old enough to remember three evening papers in London News, Star and Standard. Lolguinnessaddick said:Old enough to remember two evenings paper in London, the evening standard & the evening news.1 -
Someone must have done a paper round out of that newsagents at Grove Park2
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I was never a paper boy, the wages were abysmal.golfaddick said:
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.BrentfordAddick said: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 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.2 -
I was the Keith Peacock of paper rounds, I was a the substitute in the shop, if everyone turned up, I went home. If someone didn’t, I did their round.0
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Would I be correct in thinking that you like to bear a grudge Henry?Henry Irving said:Standard said Charlton Athletic should be allowed to die in 1984 and when Powell was picked to play for England had a headline of "Chris Who?".
Refused to read it ever since, even when it was free.
Charlton coverage was generally appalling anyway.0 -
YesHal1x said:
Would I be correct in thinking that you like to bear a grudge Henry?Henry Irving said:Standard said Charlton Athletic should be allowed to die in 1984 and when Powell was picked to play for England had a headline of "Chris Who?".
Refused to read it ever since, even when it was free.
Charlton coverage was generally appalling anyway.2 -
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.golfaddick said:
Perhaps we should start a thread about paper rounds...😀.BrentfordAddick said: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 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.0 -
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 home0
