The town was old and the pace of life slow. Even more so for the local newspaper which still printed its weekly newspaper with the ads and commercials on the front page.
Being there took you back in time to an era when everything was done by hand, and I marvelled as I watched Percy pick out the metal letters in such a fashion that demonstrated his experience.
Then the huge broadsheets would be laid out, and the pages pressed producing what we expected each week.
The whole process was quicker than I imaged, but it existed on borrowed time.
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Morpethroad 
Ah, the old ways of doing it 🙂
The good old days
Yea, in so many ways. But to today’s generation, these are the good old dats
Oh, that brings back memories. My ex used to be a compositor for the SMH. Filthy job, ink almost impossible to get out of his clothes – even though he wore a long sleeved dust coat. Not too many people would be able to do it today, you had to be able to pick up any spelling mistakes in the copy.
In the late 70’s and early 80’s we lived in a town where the local paper was printed the old way.