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I must admit while setting up my own home I was able to
buy bargains before anyone else!

Just in case you missed the salient facts in another story;
the Lincolnshire Standard in the 1960’s was one of the last
traditional weekly county newspapers. (So as not to bore
readers of the entire book in “book” form all these recaps have
been written differently.
Every week the classified adverts were on the first eight or
ten front pages. Good thinking this, as even today in the 21
st
Century, how often do we pick up a paper and find the most
interesting bits are the classified ads?

Before we leave the subject, I must add that all the
reporters were “locally grown”. The news content was first
class and interesting because it was written by local folk who
truly knew what was going on! The paper and its sisters
throughout the County were very popular and truly went into
every home.
Unlike in 2012 when the actual news content in most
papers is almost zero and written by “zombies”. Then
newspapers today have the gall to complain that they are
losing readers to another medium!
When I left the “Standard” I was earning £12 a week.

THE GARAGE
At the garage, of which there were two depots in the town,
I was “promised” £10 per week, “plus commission”, for six
days including working Saturdays and Sundays.
In these 1960’s there was relatively low unemployment.
Immigrant labour was unknown and no one could possible
conceive that there would ever be anything as short as a “48
hour working week”.

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