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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
When I was 16, still at school and taking papers for the shop top of Russia St on Blackburn Rd. then called Moore's, previously Banks' , I bought my first suit from John Collier's - a charcoal grey one., with my Xmas tips. Cost £11 I had started taking papers at 13yrs - the legal age then. Even now I cannot pick a paper up without folding it as if to put it through a letter box.
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I bought a dog with my Xmas tips.
Remember those letter boxes with the really tight flap - often caused the news paper to rip if you wern't careful!