Old cinemas of Leeds: YEP
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chameleon
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Si wrote: Hi Chameleon. You been away? next door to wiggy land for a couple of weeks - anual visit 'home' for Mrs C!
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dogduke
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Johnny39
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dogduke wrote: Wasn't the Hillcrest a grand place !According to Leodis it closed in 1963 well within my sort of memoryspan But I don't remember it looking like that Like your good self I don't remember it looking like that either. I seem to recollect it being in a grey stone. Living in the Compton's 'til I was 15 it was one of our local cinemas. I don't recall there ever being a clock on the tower. I think it must have been altered at sometime.
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Trojan
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Johnny39 wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: chameleon wrote: raveydavey wrote: tyke bhoy wrote: Is this another case of where Secret Leeds leads the YEP follows. The YEP is posting galleries closesly related to SL threads. Pubs of the 70's and 80's and now cinema's. Very reminiscent of "lost ......" threads on here.Should we start a thread on lost newspapers lol Now that's cruel. Funny, but cruel...! Oooh, I so like that Wonder if they would then come up with something spectaculaar like the Evening News? Gone but not forgotten, still to be found around Leeds.The last edition of the Evening News was on Saturday the 30th November 1963.It was then amalgamated with the Yorkshire Evening Post.Apparently it used to outsell the YEP by a big margin as it was considered a Labour paper and the YEP was Tory! From someone who was working at the YEN on the day it closed I can say with some certainty that the last edition was December 3rd 1963.Whilst the sales of the YEP were larger than the YEN the owning company of the YEN was larger than the YEP and it was touch and go as to who took who over. The YEP was a Conservative newspaper but the YEN, if anything, was Liberal though I think it considered itself independent. I think I'm right in saying that sales of the YEN were larger in the north and east of the city than the south.For many years, after its closure, we used to hold a reunion on Dec. 3rd. at the Oastlers in Trinity Street, sadly time takes its toll and these reunions finished sometime in the early 90's. I think it must have been the 20th. anniversary when the reunion was held at The Wellesley on Wellington Street.I hope I don't sound like "Johnny Knowall" but the first years of my working life were spent at the YEN and without a shadow of a doubt they were the happiest. I certainly took more Posts than News on my paper round in Morley, I'd say about three times as many Posts. Which came as a shock to me because along with all my aunts and uncles, we took the News.My late cousin's journalistic career started at the YENhttp://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/Friends ... 53.jp"Born in Morley, West Yorkshire, Alan started his career as a copy boy on the Yorkshire Evening News."
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gbdlufc
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Chrism
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gbdlufc wrote: Sorry for bringing up an old thread its just that I haven't been on here for some time and I was just trawling through the threads.On this thread there is a link to the YEP and the 'nostagia gallerys' but I cant seem to view anything when there ie no links to images, Anyone know why?Cheers Probably cos the link is over 3 years old.
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