Page 36 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK FOUR Volume 1 "Northcote 1984 to 1998"

Picture caption: Hebe a genuine Dales Pony mare who came to us at Northcote,
together with the Brougham Carriage, one thing we did manage to hang on to.

Easter 1984 had been the time of the big move to Great Steeping and working for
Rundle's.
When Easter 1986 arrived, I had begun to work at the Skegness Standard.
Ruth had left the Grace Swan Hospital, had endured a year travelling to Nottingham Poly.
and completed her District Nurse training with a satisfying Graduation ceremony.
She was now employed on the “district” locally and had purchased a very tidy Mk2 Ford
Granada 2 litre. We were making progress!

ANOTHER CHANGE
My contract at the Standard was only for six months and the newspaper was sold at about
the same time as my contract finished, to a huge national conglomerate that guaranteed
the end of local journalism for this medium.
My contract was not renewed, but I soon found myself staff photographer for the
‘opposition’ Skegness News while their regular man was on sick leave.

A happy year this, as I loved photography but Bob the original photographer was soon
mended and as the ‘News’ owners found out I had spent my formative years at the Boston
Standard in advertising, I was moved over to sell advert space, this I did not like.
Their ad manager was a young lad, well meaning I suppose but more of a wheeler dealer!
Admittedly he was under pressure to fill the paper every week with as many adverts as he
could persuade the unfortunate Skegness traders to buy.
To blow my own trumpet just for once, in the early 1960’s I had learned more about
newspaper advertising at the ‘knee’ of Roy Webley at the Boston Standard than Wayne
would ever be able to comprehend.

Wayne gladly gave me all the worst jobs, no chance of planning organised worthwhile