Can I Be The First To Wish Everyone....

[mickd1961]

A happy Easter.

I really miss Woolworths being around, they’d usually got the Easter Eggs on sale by now!

[Baggie Sharon]

The pick n mix was great in there. In the latter years the Woollies in Dudley had one whole (huge)wall of sweets and chocolates.

I had a Saturday job there - remember them?? Worked hard but had a really vile supervisor - Barbara, nothing was ever right.
Can't remember the pay but you couldn't have cash on you on the shop floor so had to pay for your dinner first thing in the morning so often didn't want what you'd paid for when dinnertime came!

Who else had a Saturday job?

[Yarmbaggie]

The pick n mix was great in there. In the latter years the Woollies in Dudley had one whole (huge)wall of sweets and chocolates.

I had a Saturday job there - remember them?? Worked hard but had a really vile supervisor - Barbara, nothing was ever right.
Can't remember the pay but you couldn't have cash on you on the shop floor so had to pay for your dinner first thing in the morning so often didn't want what you'd paid for when dinnertime came!

Who else had a Saturday job?

First ‘job’ was a paper round 7 days per week. Furthest farmhouse was almost 3 miles away from me so I was very fit although I did come off the pushbike quite a lot on ungritted roads in the winter.

In addition I had a Saturday job delivering meat for the butcher in town, before going to the match in the afternoon. On Sunday early morning helped the butcher making sausages, getting meat out of the cheeks, now a delicacy in top restaurants, as well a making batches of dripping. Played football afterwards for Sunday league team.

No wonder we were fit in the mid 60s onwards we didn’t have time to get overweight!

Worst thing was walking back home from the butchers, several dogs used to ‘wait’ for me and been frightened of dogs ever since after being chased by a few then.

[The Minn Junta]

First ‘job’ was a paper round 7 days per week. Furthest farmhouse was almost 3 miles away from me so I was very fit although I did come off the pushbike quite a lot on ungritted roads in the winter.

In addition I had a Saturday job delivering meat for the butcher in town, before going to the match in the afternoon. On Sunday early morning helped the butcher making sausages, getting meat out of the cheeks, now a delicacy in top restaurants, as well a making batches of dripping. Played football afterwards for Sunday league team.

No wonder we were fit in the mid 60s onwards we didn’t have time to get overweight!

Worst thing was walking back home from the butchers, several dogs used to ‘wait’ for me and been frightened of dogs ever since after being chased by a few then.

Good post about real life, last line made me laugh!

[jcbALBION]

Good post about real life, last line made me laugh!

I had a few DOGS waiting for me.... They were after MY sausage...

[Leicesterbaggie]

First ‘job’ was a paper round 7 days per week. Furthest farmhouse was almost 3 miles away from me so I was very fit although I did come off the pushbike quite a lot on ungritted roads in the winter.

In addition I had a Saturday job delivering meat for the butcher in town, before going to the match in the afternoon. On Sunday early morning helped the butcher making sausages, getting meat out of the cheeks, now a delicacy in top restaurants, as well a making batches of dripping. Played football afterwards for Sunday league team.

No wonder we were fit in the mid 60s onwards we didn’t have time to get overweight!

Worst thing was walking back home from the butchers, several dogs used to ‘wait’ for me and been frightened of dogs ever since after being chased by a few then.

Sounds like you had the same type of paper round as I did. As you say, kept us fit. Mind you, I hated Thursdays as I was weighed down not only with the daily paper but the Leominster News, Hereford Times and the Farmers Weekly, which was thick. Good old days though!

[phild]

I used to get up at 4 in the morning to work at delivering bread with the 'bread man' in the van (who remembers the bread man) we would deliver bread to loads of houses and I would be paid £3 measly really as I would load the van as well. Hickinbottoms btw