Footage documenting life at the former home of two sister dailies has been digitised as part of a project to bring thousands of films online for the first time.

The film, called Third Century: The Story of Yorkshire Post Newspapers, documents life inside the Leeds offices of both the Yorkshire Post and the Yorkshire Evening Post.

It has been immortalised as part of the British Film Institute’s £15m Lottery-funded Britain on Film project, which will see 10,000 films made valuable to the public and kept for prosperity online.

The project began in 2012 and digitising will continue until the end of 2017.

A still from Third Century: The Story of Yorkshire Post Newspapers

The offices, in Wellington Street, Leeds, housed both the YP and YEP for 42 years and have now been demolished.

Both titles moved to new offices in nearby Whitehall Road in 2012, with the old five-acre site sold to a private investor the following year.

In February this year Leeds City Council approved plans to transform the site into around 50,000sqm of offices, 200 homes and a range of other uses, including cafes, shops and leisure facilities.

The only part of the original building now left standing is the clock tower, which will now be used to show digital advertising displays after a £250,000 system was installed.