THANK YOU MR POSTMAN FREE
One thing hasn’t changed - Joy continues to come to the Talking Newspaper recording studios at least twice a week to read and record the news for almost 300 subscribers to the newspaper via digital audio plug and countless more downloading it online,Īnd the Royal Mail continue to support the service, collecting and delivering the Talking Newspaper free to listeners across the locality – the charity itself spans all three local boroughs Blackpool Fylde and Wyre. And I can remember what a faff it used to be to get the tapes out to the sorting office at all hours." “I’ve seen so many changes in the technology used at our Talking Newspaper – and in the aids and appliances now available to those with sight loss as well as the technological advances there too. Joy feel like she’s done some time travelling herself. John Profumo resigned over his affair with Christine Keeler - and the very first Dr Who was broadcast. Put in perspective 1963 was the year of the Great Train Robbery, when The Beatles had their very first number one (then two more) in the singles charts and topped the UK album charts with Please Please Please Me for 30 weeks - and released that cover of Please Mister Postman. This is one charity which gets volunteers on a very long hook indeed. The former hotelier and thespian is one of Britain’s veteran newscasters – having read the news for the society’s Talking Newspaper since it started more than four decades ago.īut she never expected when she turned up to help with a spot of fundraising in 1963 to still be there 55 year later. Generous Joy decided to share the joy by making a urprise presentation to the Royal Mail. Volunteer Joy, 93 years young, received her certificate later - along with some flowers from chairman of trustees Clive Hirst in recognition of the fact she had started volunteer work in 1963 notching up 55 years of service to the charity in general. The big 4-0 was celebrated last summer with Blackpool Tower lighting up in the charity's colours for the occasion and volunteers thanked with certificates and a special lunch. This year the Talking Newspaper, one of the oldest in the country, turns 41. "I thought it was time we said thank you for a first class service." "We couldn't manage without our posties," says Joy Killip, the longest standing news reader at the 'paper'.
It's a crucial service provided by the Royal Mail, the DAPs then posted back, recorded over with the following week's news, delivered and collected by Rick and other postie regulars in support of a lifeline service for those who can no longer read a newspaper.
Normally Rick Potter pops into the mail room to pick up the bags containing the digital audio plugs which deliver the society's Talking Newspaper to hundreds of listeners across all three local boroughs. It's not every day a small reception committee made up of the CEO and most of the staff at the N-Vision NW, Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Socety for the Blind, gather to greet the post. "I've seen so many changes I feel like a time traveller myself" Joy Killip
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