Love ready old newspapers, I find them fascinating. When I was young we used to buy our fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
I would buy a pennyworth of ‘scrumps’ – the man behind the counter would carefully scoop crispy ends of chips into a small greaseproof bag – smile – and then wrap them in a wad of the Daily Sketch! 🙂
Ceased publication in 1971. And we used to just ask for scraps. The bits of leftover batter from frying the fish and free with a bag of chips. Never seemed as greasy as fish ‘n chips often are these days, or maybe that’s because I no longer live oop north 😉
As you know, Gilly, anything dilapidated gets my vote! Lovely.
Lovely old newspaper. I was brought up with newspapers – my dad worked for a wholesaler and then had his own newsagent shop so I was immersed in printed ink from an early age! I stopped buying them 20 years ago when they stopped being ‘news’ papers and became gossip rags.
The state of that newspaper looks like our house before we started renovations. 😕 I bet those prices in the ads have changed a lot since it was published. 🙂
Lucid Gypsy 
‘Tis not!!! What are those black things on that beautiful dilapidated newspaper??
Surely not words…..shhhhh
Now where have you been? A museum somewhere I guess. I had a rainy museum day and a sunny one too. There’ll be no shutting me up when I get home xx
Love ready old newspapers, I find them fascinating. When I was young we used to buy our fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
I would buy a pennyworth of ‘scrumps’ – the man behind the counter would carefully scoop crispy ends of chips into a small greaseproof bag – smile – and then wrap them in a wad of the Daily Sketch! 🙂
* sorry, ‘ready’ should be ‘reading’!
We call them gribbles here, they were lovely at the time but I wouldn’t fancy them now would you? 😀
And what happened to the Sketch?
Ceased publication in 1971. And we used to just ask for scraps. The bits of leftover batter from frying the fish and free with a bag of chips. Never seemed as greasy as fish ‘n chips often are these days, or maybe that’s because I no longer live oop north 😉
As you know, Gilly, anything dilapidated gets my vote! Lovely.
That looks very ancient news.
Lovely old newspaper. I was brought up with newspapers – my dad worked for a wholesaler and then had his own newsagent shop so I was immersed in printed ink from an early age! I stopped buying them 20 years ago when they stopped being ‘news’ papers and became gossip rags.
The state of that newspaper looks like our house before we started renovations. 😕 I bet those prices in the ads have changed a lot since it was published. 🙂
I love old newspapers. Here, they are sometimes found in attics or between floors when used as insulation. 🙂 😛
You do know that’s not “wordless” right? 😀
A visit to an antique shop – Perhaps???