{"id":4236,"date":"2017-08-14T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2017-08-15T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:54:25","slug":"read-all-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/14\/read-all-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Read All About It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a few other paintings that depict the way that news was disseminated in the past.<\/p>\n<p>A street news seller goes about his daily business hawking newspapers with shouts that were barely intelligible. In this memory I have highlighted the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suez_Crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Suez Crisis of 1956<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; often the sight of the news placard or the hawker holding up a freshly printed evening news was the first anyone heard of what was happening in the world when they came off shift in the mills.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4235\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Read-All-About-It-1024x747.png\" alt=\"William Lonsdale Artist Oil Painting Suez Crisis\" width=\"900\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Read-All-About-It-1024x747.png 1024w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Read-All-About-It-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Read-All-About-It-768x560.png 768w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Read-All-About-It.png 1342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second painting depicts the news girl delivering a paper on her paper round &#8211; a much sought-after job that paid fairly well as a pocket money job.<br \/>\nIn those days nearly everyone had papers delivered &#8211; most people did not have television at that time so it was their only pictorial view of the world and local news &#8211; usually well after it had happened. The images in the Press supplemented the audio version of the news that they kept up with on the &#8220;wireless&#8221; broadcast from the BBC in London. None of the 24 hour repeat-loop news that we experience today. You had to wait until the the allotted time unless there was a very important piece of news like the death of the King or an outbreak of war &#8211; in which case your listening would be interrupted by a News Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>N.B.\u00a0The only paper in Nelson which was also sold by a man calling out ( as well as in the newsagents) was The Sunday Empire News starting on Saturday night from 6pm onwards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4232\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsgirl.png\" alt=\"William Lonsdale Artist Oil Painting Newsgirl\" width=\"687\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsgirl.png 687w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsgirl-208x300.png 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A third one is of a newsagents shop with children and a man on a bicycle\u00a0in the foreground. The girl&#8217;s hair spreads out in the wind like the spokes of the wheel behind her\u00a0as she scoots along.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4246\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsagents.png\" alt=\"William Lonsdale Artist Oil Painting T Savage Newsagents\" width=\"434\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsagents.png 434w, https:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/newsagents-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are more images of newsagents shops on a previous post &#8211; see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/camden-street-newsagents\/\">Camden Street Newsagents.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a few other paintings that depict the way that news was disseminated in the past. 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