Remember LOP
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Posting random bits & bobs here to help keep alive the memory of Leeds Other Paper (1974-1994), possibly the greatest little newspaper in the world. This account is maintained, after a fashion, by @writerlytone.bsky.social
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Remember LOP
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· Nov 27
Half a century has passed since the birth of Leeds Other Paper, an alternative local newspaper that uncovered many of the city’s less told stories. LOP lasted from 1974 to 1994, during which time it reported on social, political, economic and cultural life in Leeds from an alternative perspective.
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Letter in the Guardian by Sue O’Sullivan and Miriam David. On being part of the women’s liberation movement, in response to a long read by Susanna Rustin on the Sex Discrimination Act. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Collecting memories and stories of feminists | Letters
Letters: Sue O’Sullivan and Miriam David on being part of the women’s liberation movement, in response to a long read by Susanna Rustin on the Sex Discrimination Act. Plus a letter from Paul F Faupel
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December 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Letter in the Guardian by Sue O’Sullivan and Miriam David. On being part of the women’s liberation movement, in response to a long read by Susanna Rustin on the Sex Discrimination Act. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
December 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
December 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅
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Here's the first issue of York Stop Press!, a paper produced by striking @nujofficial.bsky.social members during the #WinterOfDiscontent in Dec 1978. We at Leeds Other Paper helped with production - as a workers' co-op we were not part of the provincial newspapers dispute.
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Here's the first issue of York Stop Press!, a paper produced by striking @nujofficial.bsky.social members during the #WinterOfDiscontent in Dec 1978. We at Leeds Other Paper helped with production - as a workers' co-op we were not part of the provincial newspapers dispute.
Here's the first issue of York Stop Press!, a paper produced by striking @nujofficial.bsky.social members during the #WinterOfDiscontent in Dec 1978. We at Leeds Other Paper helped with production - as a workers' co-op we were not part of the provincial newspapers dispute.
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Here's the first issue of York Stop Press!, a paper produced by striking @nujofficial.bsky.social members during the #WinterOfDiscontent in Dec 1978. We at Leeds Other Paper helped with production - as a workers' co-op we were not part of the provincial newspapers dispute.
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Continuing our series on places of significance in labour history, Kathy Davies introduces Coney Street in York, where in 1978 striking journalists picketed the offices of the Yorkshire Evening Press
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Coney Street, York: a place in labour history
Continuing our series on places of significance in labour history, Kathy Davies introduces Coney Street in York. As a resident of York, I frequently walk down Coney Street, one of the city’s oldest…
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December 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Continuing our series on places of significance in labour history, Kathy Davies introduces Coney Street in York, where in 1978 striking journalists picketed the offices of the Yorkshire Evening Press
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And in that issue #TheManInTheStand match report from the heartland of Miners'Strike - Castleford v Widnes
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And in that issue #TheManInTheStand match report from the heartland of Miners'Strike - Castleford v Widnes
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Here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of that for you.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of that for you.
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Ah, the ghost of Christmas past...
This week 40 years ago LOP's front page featured a #Christmas poem from the #MinersStrike and much else besides. Truly, all human life was there.
December 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Ah, the ghost of Christmas past...
Ah, the ghost of Christmas past...
This week 40 years ago LOP's front page featured a #Christmas poem from the #MinersStrike and much else besides. Truly, all human life was there.
December 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Ah, the ghost of Christmas past...
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Anyone remember the old Roscoe pub on Chapeltown Road in Leeds?
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Anyone remember the old Roscoe pub on Chapeltown Road in Leeds?
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
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where have all the fanzines gone? Well one of the very best is collected here www.nicktoczek.com/product-page...
Wool City Rocker - The Complete Run Of The Legendary Fanzine! | nicktoczek
THE WOOL CITY ROCKER fanzine ran for just three years. Over its fourteen published issues, it expanded from being the voice of the vibrant and varied Bradford independent music scene at the juncture b...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
where have all the fanzines gone? Well one of the very best is collected here www.nicktoczek.com/product-page...
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FYI @leeds-camra-org-uk.bsky.social, @rogerprotz.bsky.social, @leedscamra.bsky.social, @camraofficial.bsky.social, @bradfordcamra.org.uk, @wakefield.camra.org.uk, @leedsmuseums.bsky.social.
#pubs #roscoe #eldon #leedspubs #leedshistory
#pubs #roscoe #eldon #leedspubs #leedshistory
Anyone remember the old Roscoe pub on Chapeltown Road in Leeds?
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
December 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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The Roscoe was so small it had specially sawn-off cues because the pool table was only inches from the walls. In contrast, the New Roscoe was massive and there was even room for the legendary John Keenan to put on gigs. Saw the Waco Brothers there, among many others. Both pubs now long gone 😢
Anyone remember the old Roscoe pub on Chapeltown Road in Leeds?
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Roscoe was so small it had specially sawn-off cues because the pool table was only inches from the walls. In contrast, the New Roscoe was massive and there was even room for the legendary John Keenan to put on gigs. Saw the Waco Brothers there, among many others. Both pubs now long gone 😢
FYI @leeds-camra-org-uk.bsky.social, @rogerprotz.bsky.social, @leedscamra.bsky.social, @camraofficial.bsky.social, @bradfordcamra.org.uk, @wakefield.camra.org.uk, @leedsmuseums.bsky.social.
#pubs #roscoe #eldon #leedspubs #leedshistory
#pubs #roscoe #eldon #leedspubs #leedshistory
Anyone remember the old Roscoe pub on Chapeltown Road in Leeds?
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
December 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Anyone remember the old Roscoe pub on Chapeltown Road in Leeds?
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Anyone remember the old Roscoe pub on Chapeltown Road in Leeds?
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
These former regulars did - they laid a plaque after it was demolished (as reported here in LOP from Dec 1983). Sadly, even the plaque now seems to be buried beneath the Sheepscar intersection. Either that or someone nicked it. Shame.
It's Thursday and that can mean only one thing; a new blog is up. This week we discuss a boozy night out with librarians, ISBN numbers, spelling mistakes, brawls, books, lists and much much more.
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Librarians, Drinks and a Reading List
I was out for a few celebratory drinks with a bunch of librarians the other week …This is not the start of a Bob Monkhouse monologue, it’s true as we celebrated winning the Sporting Heritage award …
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December 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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In pretty well every issue throughout its history Leeds Other Paper included a blurb about its reason for existing, along with an invitation to get involved. The wording changed now and then but the message remained more or less the same. This one is from LOP number 20, dated Sept 1975.
December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Coming up on Monday in Leeds...
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Coming up on Monday in Leeds...
Coming up on Monday in Leeds...
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Coming up on Monday in Leeds...
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Just spotted this interesting piece about LOP on the @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social blog, written by Lane Osborne
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Leeds Other Paper and alternative voices in local journalism
Lane Osborne, LAW Collections Assistant, writes: Leeds Other Paper, later known as Northern Star in 1991, was a local alternative newspaper that ran from 1974-1994. It was formed by a group of anar…
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December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
When #punk came to Leeds, LOP responded by producing a page in the style of a fanzine. Sort of. This is from issue number 53 in April 1977. Not sure all the readers knew what was going on.
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Just spotted this interesting piece about LOP on the @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social blog, written by Lane Osborne
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leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/l...
Leeds Other Paper and alternative voices in local journalism
Lane Osborne, LAW Collections Assistant, writes: Leeds Other Paper, later known as Northern Star in 1991, was a local alternative newspaper that ran from 1974-1994. It was formed by a group of anar…
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM