Never to the dark side Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 In a Galaxy far far away when I was a teenager and no internet, as well as no Radio Bristol The only way you found out about the fixtures being released for the coming season was the evening post. So the day before the release date The BEP would splash across its front pages Full fixture list of both Bristol football clubs in tomorrows BEP Always remember getting off the school bus rushing towards the paper shop and buying the paper with my very small amount of pocket money Scanning through several of the back pages. Then a small section saying Bristol City start with a game against XXXX team. BUT due to insuffient space we will not be able to print the rest of the fixtures till the following days edition Can't remember if the other lot got the same treatment. So its true be said their were even spin doctors around in the 1960's Being Naive and so very young I didn't expect my local paper would do such a thing,did I? By the same token I would not take a peak inside because I trusted everyone and everything would be honest No reflection on the current staff of the Post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 I well remember cutting out the list from the WDP on the Friday morning and pinning it on my bedroom wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 And how exactly are you planning to level this BEP playing field injustice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 That post seller on ashton road i liked. Soccer special! 3 star post! he would shout that for hours. Hard to think now i used to look forward to the 2 star coming out for city news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 2 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said: That post seller on ashton road i liked. Soccer special! 3 star post! he would shout that for hours. Hard to think now i used to look forward to the 2 star coming out for city news. Fella outside Dixons down Broadmead was the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 There was a old guy who sold it up melvin square for years too. He was a character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS3City Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 15 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said: There was a old guy who sold it up melvin square for years too. He was a character. Known as "Uncle Fester" I believe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV Tom Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 18 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said: There was a old guy who sold it up melvin square for years too. He was a character. They’re all characters up Melvin Square Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 He had the same duffel coat for 20 years. Has he handed down the mantle to anybody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolmoose Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 7 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said: He had the same duffel coat for 20 years. Has he handed down the mantle to anybody? If he's had it for 20 years it would be more crust than mantle by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 3 hours ago, Red Right Hand said: I well remember cutting out the list from the WDP on the Friday morning and pinning it on my bedroom wall. Who remembers Shoot! magazine? Getting the cardboard league tables one week and then collecting the little cardboard tabs for each team, then updating the positions of all of the teams each week, was a big part of my childhoood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redysteadygo1 Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 54 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said: There was a old guy who sold it up melvin square for years too. He was a character. Graham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanterne Rouge Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 31 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: Who remembers Shoot! magazine? Getting the cardboard league tables one week and then collecting the little cardboard tabs for each team, then updating the positions of all of the teams each week, was a big part of my childhoood. Indeed I do! It never made it too far into the season mind as all the tabs got wonky and wouldn`t go into the slots after about a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 3 minutes ago, Red Right Hand said: Indeed I do! It never made it too far into the season mind as all the tabs got wonky and wouldn`t go into the slots after about a month. The thing to avoid was sticking them in your mouth, when switching multiple tabs at once! It did occur to me as I made that post that NTTTDS probably still has a couple of sets somewhere laminated for prosperity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjak Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 Waiting for the van to pull up around 6 ish on Saturdays to the local newsagents..........with the delivery of the Green Un.....sometimes they'd be late and half a dozen blokes would stand around waiting for their fix. What year did they stop publishing the Green Rag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh Louie louie Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 Think the green un stopped about 6 years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fordy62 Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Bristol Rob said: And how exactly are you planning to level this BEP playing field injustice? In going to go into the WDP. Fill my trolley with papers and just leave it there. That’ll learn ‘em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 18 minutes ago, Port Said Red said: It did occur to me as I made that post that NTTTDS probably still has a couple of sets somewhere laminated for prosperity. Don’t tell me that NTTDS has a Mini-Me? FFFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redland Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said: That post seller on ashton road i liked. Soccer special! 3 star post! he would shout that for hours. Hard to think now i used to look forward to the 2 star coming out for city news. Wow! I’d completely forgotten about that 2 star and 3 star business. You referring to it really takes me back. Back in the 60’s I used to cut out the black and white pixelated photos of the players, stick them in my scrap book and wait for the players to come out after the match to get them autographed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 5 hours ago, Never to the dark side said: In a Galaxy far far away when I was a teenager and no internet, as well as no Radio Bristol The only way you found out about the fixtures being released for the coming season was the evening post. So the day before the release date The BEP would splash across its front pages Full fixture list of both Bristol football clubs in tomorrows BEP Always remember getting off the school bus rushing towards the paper shop and buying the paper with my very small amount of pocket money Scanning through several of the back pages. Then a small section saying Bristol City start with a game against XXXX team. BUT due to insuffient space we will not be able to print the rest of the fixtures till the following days edition Can't remember if the other lot got the same treatment. So its true be said their were even spin doctors around in the 1960's Being Naive and so very young I didn't expect my local paper would do such a thing,did I? By the same token I would not take a peak inside because I trusted everyone and everything would be honest ***No reflection on the current staff of the Post *** the last line : Just as I've often suspected that lot are vampires, thanks for confirming @Never to the dark side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoystonFoote'snephew Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 1 hour ago, Port Said Red said: Who remembers Shoot! magazine? Getting the cardboard league tables one week and then collecting the little cardboard tabs for each team, then updating the positions of all of the teams each week, was a big part of my childhoood. I used to do the same. But of all the football publications it’s Goal! Magazine I miss. I threw them all out (along with a load of old football programmes) many years ago in an argument with my mother about tidying my room. Most of the football programmes were from a friend of my fathers, had nothing to do with City, and were in a sorry state but I had every issue of Goal, including the pilot issue, and they were in good order. I wish I had them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red DNA Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said: There was a old guy who sold it up melvin square for years too. He was a character. When the van was late it all got a bit edgy...as you watched it come down Daventry Rd you’d be worried there weren’t enough Green ‘Uns on board so you had to really elbow your way in when they were eventually unloaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhistleHappy Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 8 minutes ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said: I used to do the same. But of all the football publications it’s Goal! Magazine I miss. I threw them all out (along with a load of old football programmes) many years ago in an argument with my mother about tidying my room. Most of the football programmes were from a friend of my fathers, had nothing to do with City, and were in a sorry state but I had every issue of Goal, including the pilot issue, and they were in good order. I wish I had them now. Bugger!... talk about an 'own Goal' mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redysteadygo1 Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 1959 joined the rank of paper boy for old man Wotton from a house on Creswicke Rd near to the corner of Throgmorton Rd. Had an evening round and after Saturday's delivery of Post and World came back for the Green Uns that Wotton picked up from the delivery van on St Johns Lane. It was a right scramble as the papers came out of the van to be sorted in the house into rounds as a bundle was given to one of the boys to sell to the eagerly waiting punters who couldn't wait for a delivery to their door. Finished the evening round when I started playing at 14 years old on Saturday afternoons and switched to morning rounds. 6 am. start in them days. Finished by 7.45. am home for breakfast then off to school on my bike. At least with my house on the round our papers were regular and mum got her pre made coal fire lit at about 6.30. to warm the house up before she got up at 7.00. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 Remember my paper round... £3.60 a week (Started on £3.20 mind!) But, when added to pocket money, meant a day rider, a Mickey Finns lunchbox and standing in the EastEnd. Happy days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwicolin Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 Remember the BEP having a 1 star , 2 star and 3 star papers , all up to date with the local football news . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerseybean Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 Thanks for the memories this thread has rekindled. In the early 70s, when I was 18, I did voluntary work abroad for a year.....my mum and dad regularly sent me a package of goodies which always included City reports and cuttings from the BEP and the Greenun, some times there were also cassette tapes with match commentaries too. Life pre-internet was very different! As a boy in Long Ashton I had an evening paper round, just how long it took was completely determined by how much City news the paper contained on any given day as all City related articles had to be read while I was delivering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 I remember Thursday's being a bugger of a delivery as it was Jobs Day. And Friday which was property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southvillekiddy Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 6 hours ago, Never to the dark side said: In a Galaxy far far away when I was a teenager and no internet, as well as no Radio Bristol The only way you found out about the fixtures being released for the coming season was the evening post. So the day before the release date The BEP would splash across its front pages Full fixture list of both Bristol football clubs in tomorrows BEP Always remember getting off the school bus rushing towards the paper shop and buying the paper with my very small amount of pocket money Scanning through several of the back pages. Then a small section saying Bristol City start with a game against XXXX team. BUT due to insuffient space we will not be able to print the rest of the fixtures till the following days edition Can't remember if the other lot got the same treatment. So its true be said their were even spin doctors around in the 1960's Being Naive and so very young I didn't expect my local paper would do such a thing,did I? By the same token I would not take a peak inside because I trusted everyone and everything would be honest No reflection on the current staff of the Post Dear Darkside, indeed we live in a different galaxy. I refer you and others interested back to a time when the BEP wasn't reviled and its sports writers weren't considered ignorant and biased, a time when people had virtually only one source of getting precious new information about our Club and that was the Post. As to it's sports writers, I'm talking mainly about the splendid Peter Godsiff. Godsiff described his time at the Post as "the golden age of Sports writing" . I associate this with the 60s when I started watching City. This is an OTIB topic from 2009 which starts off about Richard Latham https://www.otib.co.uk/index.php?/topic/119142-richard-latham/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
42nite Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 33 minutes ago, redysteadygo1 said: 1959 joined the rank of paper boy for old man Wotton from a house on Creswicke Rd near to the corner of Throgmorton Rd. Had an evening round and after Saturday's delivery of Post and World came back for the Green Uns that Wotton picked up from the delivery van on St Johns Lane. It was a right scramble as the papers came out of the van to be sorted in the house into rounds as a bundle was given to one of the boys to sell to the eagerly waiting punters who couldn't wait for a delivery to their door. Finished the evening round when I started playing at 14 years old on Saturday afternoons and switched to morning rounds. 6 am. start in them days. Finished by 7.45. am home for breakfast then off to school on my bike. At least with my house on the round our papers were regular and mum got her pre made coal fire lit at about 6.30. to warm the house up before she got up at 7.00. Wooten with his Bobby Charlton comb over. At one stage I did the lot, evening round, morning round, Sunday round, and collecting Friday night and Saturday morning. Couldn't do that now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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