Paper round anyone?

I used to have a belter when it came to Xmas tips but it was a dog of a paper round, especially on Sundays.

It was for Gavs newsagent at the bottom of Church Lane in Ormesby (opposite the Fountain). I covered all of Church lane and then all the way to the top of Ormesby bank. It certainly used to keep me fit and @ £8 a week in mid 80's it paid well, I think 1 year i got around £80 in Xmas tips......not to be sniffed at!
 
I had two from 1973 to 75

One from West Lane to Whinbey Banks & the 2bd one from Whinbey Banks to acklam

Loved doing it, pocket money, Boro badges, the odd record single, item of clithing

Nowhere near one of the hardest jobs, that would be spud bashing
 
Erimus74 said:
I had two from 1973 to 75

One from West Lane to Whinbey Banks & the 2bd one from Whinbey Banks to acklam

Loved doing it, pocket money, Boro badges, the odd record single, item of clithing

Nowhere near one of the hardest jobs, that would be spud bashing
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We went along to get on the spud bashing at the Roseberry. When the van turned up they picked all the bigger lads and blokes, we walked down to the Cora and waited there for a while, ate our bait and trudged home 😁
 
Yep, parents had a paper shop, so as an 8 year old I was allowed to deliver to about ten houses on the same street as the shop. As in grew so did the round, as we were partb oi the business so to speak we also had to cover the other rounds if there were any no-shows. Also did a milk round later, getting up at 3:15 to get to the depot to load the milk float, again a family business whose son was the driver and often on the **** over the weekends so not the best driver in the morning even with a milk float.
 
tonybiriyani said:
We went along to get on the spud bashing at the Roseberry. When the van turned up they picked all the bigger lads and blokes, we walked down to the Cora and waited there for a while, ate our bait and trudged home 😁
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Me & my younger brother got on the van at the roseberry, what a hards days graft that was, think we got paid £3 & as many souds as you could carry

Certainly aching the next morning, me & my brother booked on the beggs bus to go Stoke v Boro game, we lost 3-1
 
Remember the lad across the street from us did the local paper round. On an evening he'd start from his house and work up that side of the street then go right round the estate finally coming down our side with our house last. Used to drive my mother to distraction waiting for the Gazette to come after seeing him set off. 😆
 
chickenrunner said:
Remember the lad across the street from us did the local paper round. On an evening he'd start from his house and work up that side of the street then go right round the estate finally coming down our side with our house last. Used to drive my mother to distraction waiting for the Gazette to come after seeing him set off. 😆
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Bet she did, waiting for the EG & when it arrived youd have been getting the follo mornings Daily Star
 
I had one on Tollesby Hall morning and night and deliver morning papers to the police headquarters. On a Monday I had to take one copy of each weekend paper and one of every Monday paper to the HQ. With my round it filled three bags. Bloody nightmare to carry on my bike with all of those extra magazines. One Christmas I got £120 in tips. At 15 I felt like I was rolling in it.
 
I did a paper round just about all the way through secondary school, a pound a round for every evening gazette 6 days a week and two quid for the Sunday morning round (killer going up the hill with the guardians and mail on sundays full of supplements!)

Christmas tips were crazy at the time, used to get about £100 all in every Christmas which as a 15 year old was like winning the lottery. My old man told me a rhyme and I'd write in every christmas card I'd send to every house I'd deliver to. Still instantly springs to mind now!

'In hail, rain, sleet and snow, merrily on my round I go. Delivering to you the paper you choose, a christmas tip I can't refuse'

I remember a fight breaking out one day in the paper shop whilst we were sorting our papers out because I'd received a tip from someone on my Sunday morning round from someone I'd only deliver to on a Sunday morning, whereas the lad who delivered to them during the week hadn't received anything and got mad about it. Potatoes flying about the shop and the lady who ran the shop made me count my papers in the street while he calmed down!
 
Jonny2773 said:
I used to have a belter when it came to Xmas tips but it was a dog of a paper round, especially on Sundays.

It was for Gavs newsagent at the bottom of Church Lane in Ormesby (opposite the Fountain). I covered all of Church lane and then all the way to the top of Ormesby bank. It certainly used to keep me fit and @ £8 a week in mid 80's it paid well, I think 1 year i got around £80 in Xmas tips......not to be sniffed at!
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Ha, I used to do that round in the late 90s at Gavs. I shipped out after a year to Longbank shops for a gazette only round, couldn't handle the early morning starts every day!
 
Had a paper round. £7.50 a week. 7 days a week. Sunday supplements were horrendous. The last paper on my round was about a mile away from the second from last. Bloody hard work, especially in winter. Worked for a smashing fella called Mr Chapman Thames Road newsagents in Redcar. As for Xmas tips, an older lad told me to buy a pack of cheap Xmas cards and put one in with each paper a week or so before Christmas. Bingo £40!
Mind you, not sure I’d let either of my two get up in the dark to do that. Don’t know whether the world is more dangerous, we’re more aware or care more 😃
 
I had done the morning, evening and weekends up and down Normanby road for a while in late 90s, early 00s. Then had a herald and post from Normanby to Ormesby for a while too.

Both over Christmas times, think I only done it for the tips. One year was in the snow, had to ditch my bike.
 
SNICKERED said:
It was like a right of passage older brothers passing down the rounds to you, hopefully they had wrangled the easier round to pass on,they were like gold dust.
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Not easy. Billingham. Wolviston Back Lane, Tunstall Avenue and Neasham Avenue and all the bits in between. Sunday runs used to take me 2 hours.
 
I had two at one point:

teeaide times on a Thursday I can’t remember what the other one was in a Tuesday.

Best of all was when you had leaflets - got star cash for those but had to insert them of course.

I did Eston under Nab in a Thursday and the flats near station road Eston and the houses around wood Garth park!

I think I used to get about £4 for the teeside times and £2.80 for the other one!
 
Had a paper round with Paul Nugent who owned Rookwood News in Nunthorpe. An absolute top bloke with an unbelievable sense of humour. Loved the Boro as well.

Absolutely loved it. Had a morning & evening round which i believe were about £8 a week each. And I'm sure it was £5 for a Sunday round with them being much heavier. I had two Sunday rounds at one point so was getting around £26 a week, this was early 00's.

Always felt like I had money. A couple of weeks wages and you could buy yourself a decent pair of footy boots etc.

Looking back now it's no surprise I always felt knackered when playing Sunday League as a kid. Those 2 Sunday rounds were a killer. The bag was that heavy, I remember slipping on an icy driveway once, i went flat on my back with the bag underneath me, my arms and legs in the air as I tried to haul myself back up. Ah the good old days!
 
I showed people to a free parking space briefly during a summer holiday period once we got enough for the cannon cinema we went there . It great at the time .
Could never of done a paper round that should be illegal for what it pays 😆
 
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