In the 1950`s my cousin had a paper round. The newsagent was in Ermington Crescent (or was it in Chipperfield?).
When he went on holiday I did his round for him. Ermington Crescent, Millington Road, Oakdale road.
On Sunday the bag was so heavy for a stripling fifteen-year old (but I won awards in swimming and athletics) and so many papers, that two trips had to be made.
In the back of the shop where the rounds where assembled there were many hundreds, maybe thousands, of newspapers being piled up into the rounds.
Almost nobody had a telly, and newspapers, and radio, is where you got info and news.