People remember Mrs Gell being the village newsagent certainly in 1949, though when she started we are not sure, but she delivered to the whole village on her own. The papers where then taken on by the Simpson family on Station Road and they then asked Mr Chapman in 1956 if he would become the newsagent. Edward (Ted) Chapman took it on and ran it from Mulberry Farm until he sold the land and moved into the bungalow which he had built. In 1971 Brenda Stripe returned to the village and took over the newspaper business from her father, but with his help. Brenda continued to provide papers, in the garage of the bungalow on the corner of Common Lane near the Pinfold, until 2010 when the bungalow was sold. There are now two houses on the site. New people to the village where amazed when they enquired of their neighbours where they could buy papers to be told to go into the garage of the bungalow. On entering the garage, they found a selection of papers and an honesty box. Other people preferred to have their papers delivered by the team of paperboys aand girls. It is possible that at a later date the site will include a picture of Brenda trudging up over the Hough in deep snow to deliver papers to the Gateforth Hall area! The story of one of the paperboys in the late 1970s: “I started my paper round when I was about 14 years old, I took it over from my brother. I did the Main Road from Common Lane to the Red Lion, across the road I did White House Farm right down to the end of the village, Station Road and St. Mary’s Approach and the old peoples bungalows. I collected my papers from the garage of the bungalow by the Pinfold. I was paid £1.85 a week. The papers were prepared by Mrs Stripe’s Dad in the evening and she sorted the evening papers. The papers included the Sun, Star, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Observer and Times. On Thursday’s the bags were really heavy as so many of the weekly magazines where delivered. The weekly magazines included the Womans Own and Womens Realm. I usually had two bags on Thursdays. I can remember being told off once when I was doing an extra round, for a boy who was on holiday, because the papers were late because I finished my round and then did the second round. I was asked if I could not have done the rounds the other way round but said I was only doing it for someone who was on holiday. I didn’t want to upset my regular customers as I might not have got my Christmas bonus! Mrs Lister was always generous and gave me a pound. Being a paperboy could be like being a window cleaner – you sometimes saw things you weren’t meant to!”