Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
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Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
I’m sure I read somewhere that the YEP offices used to be in Albion Place before Wellington Street, but I now can’t seem to find any reference to that anywhere, though I know the Evening News was in Albion Street/ Trinity street. Did I imagine it? Also, does anyone know where the Leeds Mercury offices were before the YEP took them over?
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Re: Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
Evening Post offices were at the junction of Bond Street And Albion Street, opposite the present Boots premises. News was on Trinity Street, with large windows where the printing presses were visible working, on the Western side, just below my Uncle's pub,The Ostlers on the East side.
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Re: Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
Hi WLR1.
The following is a link to a photograph of the Yorkshire Post building dated July 1962 in the Leodis website. Though it does not mention the Evening Post my recollection is that the Evening Post was printed there, confirming what jim mentions. https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/97731
The following is a link to a photograph of the Yorkshire Post building dated July 1962 in the Leodis website. Though it does not mention the Evening Post my recollection is that the Evening Post was printed there, confirming what jim mentions. https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/97731
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Re: Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
Thanks- I’m now trying to work out where that is. Previous poster said opposite Bond st Boots but I don’t recognise any of the buildings.Leodian wrote: ↑Tue 29 Mar, 2022 8:46 pmHi WLR1.
The following is a link to a photograph of the Yorkshire Post building dated July 1962 in the Leodis website. Though it does not mention the Evening Post my recollection is that the Evening Post was printed there, confirming what jim mentions. https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/97731
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Re: Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
Picture is sixty years old. Most of the buildings have been replaced.
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Hi WLR1.WLR1 wrote: ↑Tue 29 Mar, 2022 10:58 pmThanks- I’m now trying to work out where that is. Previous poster said opposite Bond st Boots but I don’t recognise any of the buildings.Leodian wrote: ↑Tue 29 Mar, 2022 8:46 pmHi WLR1.
The following is a link to a photograph of the Yorkshire Post building dated July 1962 in the Leodis website. Though it does not mention the Evening Post my recollection is that the Evening Post was printed there, confirming what jim mentions. https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/97731
To give you some bearings to the present day layout Park Row is reached from Bond street going left. The 2 people are standing near what is now the Starbucks coffee house at a very fine old building that seems to be partly in view on the right edge. The caption mentions Next but that closed and its site is now a pizza place.
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Re: Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
I've found several images on Leodis
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/120545
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/67694
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/120544
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/118218
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/114492
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/97732
I have vague memories of being with my father probably around 1950 and being able to look into the premises and watching the presses in operation. I presume we were standing in the street. I have a much better memory of of the offices on the corner where they sold things like copies of their pictures. I bought a copy of a picture of Roy Foster who was then the drill sergeant in Leeds, dressed as a bishop in some sort of amateur production
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/120545
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/67694
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/120544
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/118218
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/114492
https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/97732
I have vague memories of being with my father probably around 1950 and being able to look into the premises and watching the presses in operation. I presume we were standing in the street. I have a much better memory of of the offices on the corner where they sold things like copies of their pictures. I bought a copy of a picture of Roy Foster who was then the drill sergeant in Leeds, dressed as a bishop in some sort of amateur production
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Re: Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
Hi jma.
Thanks for the links to those fascinating images.

Thanks for the links to those fascinating images.
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Re: Evening Post Offices before Wellington Street
Where did the Yorkshire Evening News have its office and printing press?
Was it part of the same group as the Yorkshire Post?
Was it part of the same group as the Yorkshire Post?
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