Page 75 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK TWO "BOSTON 1960 TO 1970"

We were living in a ground floor flat at the time, but had
decided to take the plunge and buy a new house on a
development not far from where Grandmother Munford was
living on Boston’s London Road.
This was to be “45 Woodside”.
Sometime later in my capacity as “reader” of all the
classified pages on the night before publication I spotted an
advertisement for Car Salesman at a local Major Car and Lorry
retail dealership.

OUT OF THE FRYING PAN
It was 1966 and Boston’s oldest established dealership for
car and commercial vehicles, had been taken over by a much
more ambitious and go ahead family.
With some trepidation, I left the Lincolnshire Standard
Newspaper Group on the instigation of Fred Popham my future
Firestone “Boss”, and found this job selling cars, or so I was led
to believe in the beginning. It was truly “out of the frying pan
into the fire!”
At the newspaper I had enjoyed a five and half day week
with Saturdays and Sundays off. How can he do that you ask?

The answer is simple, I just worked Wednesday evenings.
Not all night, just as long as it took to “read” all the weekly
newspaper’s classified pages and ensure all were in their
correct classification.
If all went well I would be finished by 11pm. If things went
wrong, who could say! This does not take into consideration
the fact that I was a teenager and had to persuade the
kermodgenly stick in the mud typesetters and page minders
that changes had to be made.
If we had to give away FREE adverts to folk who found
their ad in the wrong classification, the boss severely upset!
One particularly good thing to come out of this job was the
fact that I was the first person to see the adverts in print.

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