Old cinemas of Leeds: YEP

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Wed 14 Jul, 2010 8:13 pm

There is an interesting feature on the YEP website showing some old photos of cinemas in Leeds, many of which are long gone.http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... 993.jpThey include some interior shots of The Majestic in all it's glory in the 1920's which I've not seen before.

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Wed 14 Jul, 2010 9:15 pm

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

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Wed 14 Jul, 2010 10:01 pm

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...!

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 14 Jul, 2010 10:19 pm

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...! With the recent price increase from 42p to 45p a copy I am thinking of no longer getting the YEP but read it at a library. The Yorkshire Evening Post (which should really be called the Yorkshire Morning Post) could soon be a lost newspaper.

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 14 Jul, 2010 10:55 pm

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?

Si · Post by Si » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 11:28 am

Hi Chameleon. You been away?

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 11:56 am

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!

tomq · Post by **tomq** » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 2:14 pm

As a paperboy in the early sixties I always took out far more Evening Posts than Evening News and that was in Belle Isle, hardly a Tory hotbed!

jim · Post by **jim** » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 4:02 pm

I was a paperboy in Lower Wortley in the first half of the Fifties. My round was consistently 100 YEP, 20 YEN.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Thu 15 Jul, 2010 6:00 pm

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.