Were You Sent To Get The Papers When You Were Little?

[sandyRoe]

I went to the newsagents for the News of the World and the Sunday Mirror.

[DDIL]

Good Morning,

No I used to bring them home with me after doing the paper round.

Father liked the Sun and The News of the World.  After he had finished reading them, Mother read them and then we were allowed to look through them.

[1ozzy]

No, but I had to collect the milk and the bread, they were delivered to our driveway, milk early, bread later in the day.

Now I have to go to the local shop and buy everything myself!

Alas, times have changed 😞

[davebro3]

no - we had the Evening Telegraph delivered & dad bought The Daily Herald on his way to work. No weekend papers.

[Cloverjo]

No. We had the paper (Mirror) delivered by one of those old-fashioned things; a paper boy. Where have they all gone? 

[Old_Geezer]

Yes.

[barry1010]

I suppose I was - I was a paperboy 

[barry1010]

I did my paper round straight after my milk round.  

[drmorgans]

 

No, we had them delivered. I grew up in a pub and helped Dad "bottle up" and even on occasion tapped a barrel.

 

[Bazile]

I was a paper boy .

I recall an occasion  in a week before Christmas , my uncle came to our house to take me to his house to spend some time with his family .

It was the day that i knocked on each door to hand the papers to each customer , instead of putting it through the letter box , so that i could collect my Christmas tips . Therefore the round took a lot longer to complete that day .

When I arrived back home my uncle was very crossed because he had to wait a long time for me

Well no powers on earth was going to  stop me collecting my tips 

[Bazile]

I also had a milk round .

I remember in the winter my fingers being frozen from handling the milk bottles 

[barry1010]

Slip sliding with milk bottles in your hands wasn't fun

[-SharonA-]

Yes & I also had a paper round!

[youngmafbog]

News of the Screws as it was known, from my paper round I often found people had a serious paper like the Times and the rag as well. News and some amusment I suppose.

We had papers delivered - the evening Echo, parents went out early so no time for morning papers.

If I stopped with my grandparents in Brum I would walk round the shop with my Grandad to pick up a paper and 10 Woody's.

[david small]

Occasionally.

[cashier]

No, I delivered them, had a paper round for three years.

[Canis_Lupus]

Yes, News of the World and The Sunday Times. Milk came straight from the farm, several churns on a dog cart pulled by two St Bernards.

[johnny.5]

No

but I was a paper boy

and even before that I was often asked to go to the corner shop for 10 Number 6

at about the age of 6

and was always served no questions asked

[10ClarionSt]

I used to have to go for the Sunday Express and The People. The Screws of the World wasn't allowed in our house! I only had a paper round that lasted for 3 weeks, during the winter of 1962/63. It wasn't the weather that caused me to give it up, it was my parents, who wanted me to baby sit my younger brother and make sure he got to school ok, as they started work early. Happy days! 😩

[barry1010]

I used to buy my mother's cigarettes from the corner shop for her when I was very young, too - my mother refused to go in to the shop.  It has been illegal to sell cigarettes to under 16s since 1908 but nobody took any notice.  There were vending machines in the street that anybody could get cigarettes from.

[andy-hughes]

No, we didn't live anywhere near any shops.

I think we may have had a paper delivered, can't remember.