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When I was 11 (in 1951) I had a paper round. It started in Bath Row and went into St Peter's Vale, then into Austin Street and through All Saints' Callis where I was usually offered a cup of tea by one of the elderly residents. This was at 7.15 a.m. The remainder of the round was along St Peter's Street. I used to have a look at the cars in Sycamore's Garage and then get back on my bike. I was paid 10 shillings a week for six days deliveries. I often saw Grace Lee, an elderly resident of the street, feeding her large number of cats at the top of St. Peter's Street.
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| Clem |
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Paper round? 1951? Ten bob a week? you were overpaid? or did I have the wrong round? I use to deliver Sunday papers in 1951 " 200" of them, my round included:-Conduit rd, Princes rd, Queens St, Victoria rd, & Kings Rd, I had four bags of sunday papers that I would collected on my bike at 7am every Sunday morning, I was paid 7 shillings & 6 pence. how unlucky was I, never mind I enjoyed doing it at the time.
Ed: Thanks Clem. That was in the days of hard work and errand boys. Pocket money hadn't been invented then.
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| Clem |
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Ed: pocket money? correct but somehow things seemed better, perhaps it was the fact that most had very little after the war, and you appreciated the little you had.
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| Ray Tyers |
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1972 - I remember lying about my age 14 when I was only 13 to get a paper round at W H smith in the high street. Problem was it rained so hard one day I decided to save the papers and would have delivered them the next day had the guy who was organising things for W H smtih not got so upset-- I think they still owe me a days wages.
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| BETTY |
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I had three paper rounds over the three years before I left school, these included a morning round down Ryhall Road, Rutland Road and Lincoln Road an evening round up Casterton Road and a large Sunday Paper round with my brother.
On the Sunday round we actually collected the money and we were paid a penny for every paper we sold. I often wonder if we were under paid sometimes.
I also worked in Woolworths on a Saturday when I was 15 until the High School put a stop to it, they did not like us girls working there.
The High School in those days was unbelieveable with a lot of snobby silly rules, they would not get away with them today.
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