bamber 128 Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Circling the drain: according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation the Evening Post's daily, paid-for sales are now down to 8,400. NOTTINGHAM POST: YESTERDAY'S NEWS TOMORROW ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Never thought the day would come when i did'nt buy a Daily Paper or evening one,,,but it has happened,,,,used to buy without fail a morning paper and when in Nottingham an Evening one.....In fact looking back we had in Nottingham....the ,, Evening Post Evening News,, Guardian Journal ? Football Post Football News Bulwell Dispatch Hucknall Dispatch Long Eaton Advertiser and probably several others,,,......i lead a different life nowadays from what i used to,,,,No Papers,,No Cigs,,No booze,, and several other things if i think about it,,,makes ya wonder what its all about.........''Alfie'''.....or even Carnie............ 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,674 Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 I've been away from Notts for 40 years but used to enjoy the E.P. when there , favourite night was a Tuesday when the businesses for sale were advertised (though never actually bought one in Notts ! ). My elder brother was also an avid reader and would get a Post each day but I was surprised when he said he no longer bought it . Mind you looking at a story from the Post just featured on Twitter I can see why . It was about a lady who wanted a SMEG ? pink fridge but either couldn't afford it or couldn't find one , so she hand painted her present fridge pink . What a scoop ! No wonder sales are decreasing . Hold the front page ! I've just put up a stair hand-rail that's been in the rafters of our garage for 30 years ! Headline news ! 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 I'm surprised the Evening Post are still selling any print copies at all. All newspapers have have massive drops in circulation in the last 20+ years since the internet took over everything. I don't know the last time I bought a newspaper. My only recent experience with them was in waiting rooms etc, but that doesn't happen now because of virus worries. It's the same with magazines, hardly anyone buys them these days; everybody gets their information or amusement online. I used to buy magazines (motoring, music, etc) not regularly but randomly, several times a year, but I don't remember when I last bought one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 It's going the way of lamp-lighters, telegram boys and saggar-makers' bottom knockers. Which will be a great loss as an atomized media of bloggers and forums cannot emulate a properly edited publication. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 On 8/17/2020 at 11:20 AM, DAVIDW said: I've been away from Notts for 40 years but used to enjoy the E.P. when there , favourite night was a Tuesday when the businesses for sale were advertised (though never actually bought one in Notts ! ). I had two favourite evenings for looking at the adverts. When I was old enough to be a car owner, every Friday evening I'd go through the cars-for-sale adverts to see what I could afford and what I'd like to afford if I had more money. Those were the days (1970s) of HP restrictions where you had to pay 33% of the price upfront, and pay the rest off in 2 years. That limited my options, but I changed cars as often as I could. The other day was Mondays with the job vacancies. For the first 10 years of my working life I was a serial job changer; forever going to interviews, sometimes being offered jobs, and as soon as I started there I'd be looking for something else better. I always thought the grass was greener a bit further along; eventually I got it right. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Cliff Ton said: I had two favourite evenings for looking at the adverts. The other day was Mondays with the job vacancies. For the first 10 years of my working life I was a serial job changer; forever going to interviews, sometimes being offered jobs, and as soon as I started there I'd be looking for something else better. I always thought the grass was greener a bit further along; eventually I got it right. That about sums me up. I kept looking until I found an ad for a different country!. Still changed jobs a few times there too. I guess it's a lesson it takes some of us a few years to learn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted August 19, 2020 Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 11/17/2017 at 10:09 AM, bamber said: Under the management of Christopher Pole-Carew and David Teague the Evening Post was, at one time, considered a world leader in newspaper publication, with many awards for its innovations. It's sad to see the Nottingham Post dying before our very eyes. I doubt it will be around in another five years. If you read the book "Someone had to do it", all about Christopher Pole-Carew it tells the whole story. A very nasty episode in the early 1970's. My dad worked there. When the full scale use of computers was established Pole-Carew was dismissed and went to work for Rupert Murdoch at Wapping to get ready for the move from Fleet Street. The other newspaper in Nottingham was the Guardian Journal, printed at the Watson-Fothergill building on Parliament Street. The Journal and the Post combined and the staff from the Journal moved "over the road" as they called it. I agree that the newspaper industry modernised, however it is very annoying to see all the repeated paragraphs and other mistakes in news articles. Gone are the "correctors of the press" who did a good job. I read news articles on my iPhone. The spellcheckers are no substitute for a person. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,120 Posted August 19, 2020 Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 Interesting this topic comes up. I wasn't sure if the Evening Post was still in print or digital only now. Sad news of my Uncle passing away today - Auntie wanted to put a note in the Post. Wasn't sure if this was still a thing? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,869 Posted August 19, 2020 Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 Yes you can still notify people of deaths. It used to be births, deaths and marriages, or sometimes known as matchem, hatchem and dispatchem. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,084 Posted August 19, 2020 Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 One enduring memory for me of the Post’s tenure at Forman Street was one day in 1978. I had the morning off and was driving into town to meet my mates in the Blue Bell when the European Cup draw was announced on the radio. I walked into the pub and shouted to the lads that Forest had drawn Liverpool. The two tables next to them nearly went flying as virtually the Post’s entire sports desk left their drinks and rapidly disappeared out the door. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woody 549 Posted August 19, 2020 Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 Years ago my dad always had the Evening Post and would read every item in it each night. In those days there was an extensive " personal" column in the classifieds with all sorts of cryptic messages. My gran swore blind some of the messages were Russians passing secrets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted August 19, 2020 Report Share Posted August 19, 2020 Must admit that in recent years, if I ever see a copy of the Nottingham Post, I look at the obituaries first, I don’t see many people I used to know in there, think they’ve all gone by now anyway. The Post was pretty good til about 10 years ago. When we were thinking of moving up to Nottingham 17ish years ago my Dad used to save the property section (Thursday) and post it to us. These days I check out Rightmove regularly, just to be nosey you understand! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,594 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 8 hours ago, MelissaJKelly said: Interesting this topic comes up. I wasn't sure if the Evening Post was still in print or digital only now. Sad news of my Uncle passing away today - Auntie wanted to put a note in the Post. Wasn't sure if this was still a thing? Sorry about your uncle, Melissa x. Were you close to him? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 On 8/17/2020 at 10:58 AM, benjamin1945 said: ,,makes ya wonder what its all about.........''Alfie'''.....or even Carnie. benj, Is it just for the moment we live. My little additions in the Evening Post go back quite a way. One to a very grainy picture of Dad and others in a news clip about 'The surrender of Subang' can't remember the date around 1942/3 I think. Found by following advice from Nottstalgia members. Many thanks to those whose advice found it for me, and the other , a wedding picture and little story about our 'Holiday romance' posted in January 1967. Ah, Aint love grand. I've still got my cut outs from the paper but not in very good condition. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 Think the Nottingham Post priced themselves out of folk posting funeral notices, memorials & lasting tributes, can not see the paper lasting in print over the next few years? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 I have to agree with BilboroughShirley on the subject of spelling errors, etc, in the press. The BBC news website sports some howlers. It's a bugbear of mine. I can't help it. I read and re-read what I've written to check for errors. I think the years I worked as a legal clerk, decades ago, got me into that habit. Errors were simply not permitted! I find it difficult to accept credibility in a publication if it's full of glaring mistakes. Standards have certainly plummeted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 11 hours ago, MelissaJKelly said: Interesting this topic comes up. I wasn't sure if the Evening Post was still in print or digital only now. Sad news of my Uncle passing away today - Auntie wanted to put a note in the Post. Wasn't sure if this was still a thing? 11 hours ago, denshaw said: Yes you can still notify people of deaths. It used to be births, deaths and marriages, or sometimes known as matchem, hatchem and dispatchem. If you go to the NEP website homepage, in the small print below the main heading is a sub-section for 'Funeral Notices' which is the present-day version of Deaths etc. I think it's a sub-contract thing rather than the NEP themselves. https://funeral-notices.co.uk/East+Midlands-Nottinghamshire Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 12 hours ago, woody said: Years ago my dad always had the Evening Post and would read every item in it each night. In those days there was an extensive " personal" column in the classifieds with all sorts of cryptic messages. My gran swore blind some of the messages were Russians passing secrets. Does anyone remember a rather clever promotion that the Post ran back in the late 1970s? It consisted of a daily entry in the Personals Column supposedly from Penelope (?) where she detailed her rather convoluted social life. It became a bit of a talking point. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,120 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 6 hours ago, MargieH said: Sorry about your uncle, Melissa x. Were you close to him? Thanks Margie. Hadn't seen in him years even though he only lived at the top of Ilkeston Rd - Mum has 6 siblings in total so a lot of them have naturall grown up. Very sad news none the less. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,218 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 In my youth I used to deliver "newspapers" in Notts colliery village, a wider selection than you would usually think. Some that come to mind are:- The Daily Mirror/Sunday Mirror The Daily Sketch Daily Express/Sunday Express The Observer Morning Star The Times/Sunday Times Financial Times The Guardian Journal Nottingham Evening Post Nottingham Evening News The Football Post (the pink un) The Football News (the green un) Daily Herald (became The Sun) Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday Notts Free Press The Chronicle Advertiser (The Chad) Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph The Reveille Tit Bits The Scotsman (1 subscriber only, I don't know how it arrived at the newsagents?) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 792 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 The Scotsmen are to thrifty to buy newspapers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 Thrifty’s the word. When I went up to an audit client in Perth back in the ‘60’s I was amazed to see the company secretary steaming off unfranked stamps as he checked the morning mail! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 Nothing wrong with that 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,094 Posted January 16 Report Share Posted January 16 I knew a bloke who used to split his matches with a razor blade. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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