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It must be over 45 years since the YEN closed and was taken over by the Evening Post. My family were big Methodists and in the past I suppose Liberals. The Yorkhire Evening Post in the days I'm talking about was very much a Conservative Newspaper, it even said that it was published by "Yorkshire Conservative Newspapers"So my family all took the YEN. My cousin was a junior reporter on the YEN. It was printed and published on Trinty Street, behind C&A and you could stand on Trinity Street and look down into the basement and see the presses rolling.Because we took the YEN and all my fathers brothers and sisters took it too I wasn't aware of how low a circulation it had. When I was 13/14 and got my first paper round I was shocked. For every 1 YEN I delivered 4 Posts. The Post was bigger, thicker and better produced that the News. Eventually the News succumbed.Anyone else on here remember it?

Trojan wrote: It must be over 45 years since the YEN closed and was taken over by the Evening Post. My family were big Methodists and in the past I suppose Liberals. The Yorkhire Evening Post in the days I'm talking about was very much a Conservative Newspaper, it even said that it was published by "Yorkshire Conservative Newspapers"So my family all took the YEN. My cousin was a junior reporter on the YEN. It was printed and published on Trinty Street, behind C&A and you could stand on Trinity Street and look down into the basement and see the presses rolling.Because we took the YEN and all my fathers brothers and sisters took it too I wasn't aware of how low a circulation it had. When I was 13/14 and got my first paper round I was shocked. For every 1 YEN I delivered 4 Posts. The Post was bigger, thicker and better produced that the News. Eventually the News succumbed.Anyone else on here remember it? Oh, Aye.Still got my Y.E.N. "Space Club" "Expedition Leader" ID Card. and did indeed used to gaze at the presses in the basement (??) of the Trinity Street building.We preferred it to the Y.E.P.

Do I remember rightly that the entrance to the old works is still there? I also remember printing (Evening Post?) in a courtyard possibly off Lands Lane before the new works opened on Wellington Street - always a hive of activity with vans speeding out when the final edition came off the press.Not sure how acurate this is, it does seem a long time ago.

Had a young chap call yesterday to see if I was interested in having the YEP delivered.I said No because in the past delivery was ad-hocand often late.The guy said you don't have to worry about it being delivered too late,we can deliver it before you go to work.EH!!!

Leeds-lad wrote: Had a young chap call yesterday to see if I was interested in having the YEP delivered.I said No because in the past delivery was ad-hocand often late.The guy said you don't have to worry about it being delivered too late,we can deliver it before you go to work.EH!!! It's certainly true - I've seen it on sale at 9 am in the morning - when it says Evening Post - it actually means - Yesterdays Evening Post! - And the "News" is from the day before that!

Trojan wrote: It must be over 45 years since the YEN closed and was taken over by the Evening Post. My family were big Methodists and in the past I suppose Liberals. The Yorkhire Evening Post in the days I'm talking about was very much a Conservative Newspaper, it even said that it was published by "Yorkshire Conservative Newspapers"So my family all took the YEN. My cousin was a junior reporter on the YEN. It was printed and published on Trinty Street, behind C&A and you could stand on Trinity Street and look down into the basement and see the presses rolling.Because we took the YEN and all my fathers brothers and sisters took it too I wasn't aware of how low a circulation it had. When I was 13/14 and got my first paper round I was shocked. For every 1 YEN I delivered 4 Posts. The Post was bigger, thicker and better produced that the News. Eventually the News succumbed.Anyone else on here remember it? I worked at the YEN in Trinity Street and commented on its closure in the Buildings & Structures (YEP) thread. It might be of interest.

Because we took the YEN and all my fathers brothers and sisters took it too I wasn't aware of how low a circulation it had. When I was 13/14 and got my first paper round I was shocked. For every 1 YEN I delivered 4 Posts. The Post was bigger, thicker and better produced that the News. Eventually the News succumbed.Anyone else on here remember it? My late brother did his apprenticeship at the YEN and also worked at the YEP for many years.I also had a paper round when I was 13/14. I delivered about 1 YEN to 6 YEP. It is now 50 years since I had the paper round and I can still remember most of the round, but now I can go into a room and forget what I went in for!!

Loiner in Cyprus wrote: Because we took the YEN and all my fathers brothers and sisters took it too I wasn't aware of how low a circulation it had. When I was 13/14 and got my first paper round I was shocked. For every 1 YEN I delivered 4 Posts. The Post was bigger, thicker and better produced that the News. Eventually the News succumbed.Anyone else on here remember it? My late brother did his apprenticeship at the YEN and also worked at the YEP for many years.I also had a paper round when I was 13/14. I delivered about 1 YEN to 6 YEP. It is now 50 years since I had the paper round and I can still remember most of the round, but now I can go into a room and forget what I went in for!! As i said above, my round was the same - about 50 YEP, to 15-20 YEN and 2/3 Telegraph and Argus. The papershop I worked for didn't get a delivery of T&A so halfway round I used to have to go into a competitors who did and swap YEP's for T&A's.My cousin worked on the YEN as what was then called a "copyboy" and graduated to full-blown journalist in East Anglia - he died at Christmas.He was quite famous in East Anglia, I'm not sure if anyone who worked on the YEN would remember him.http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/ ... 434957.stm    

Like many more I too remember peering with interest at the YEN flying through the press below Trinity Street. Memory may deceive but I seem to recall that it was on thinner paper than "The Post."

BLAKEY wrote: Like many more I too remember peering with interest at the YEN flying through the press below Trinity Street. Memory may deceive but I seem to recall that it was on thinner paper than "The Post." IIRC the News had its edition printed in like a shield on the top right hand corner, the Post in white on a blue rectangle.