I have no idea today, just how many paper sellers there are on the streets of the City.
Once they were a familiar sight and over the years became permanent fixtures on street corners and outside railway stations.
The chances are you got to know your “man” quite well and could pass the time of day discussing everything from the chances of “that horse" in the 2.30 at York to the price of fish and whether it was going to rain that evening.
And I am prepared to be told that there are plenty of them still selling in the same way and even on the same spot for a century and a bit.
Location; outside Knott Mill Railway Station, 1978 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Picture; selling the news, 1978, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
The chances are you got to know your “man” quite well and could pass the time of day discussing everything from the chances of “that horse" in the 2.30 at York to the price of fish and whether it was going to rain that evening.
And I am prepared to be told that there are plenty of them still selling in the same way and even on the same spot for a century and a bit.
Location; outside Knott Mill Railway Station, 1978 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Picture; selling the news, 1978, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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