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Newspaper-themed pub pays homage to street’s regional press heritage

A pub has paid homage to the journalistic heritage of the street on which it sits with a newspaper-themed rebrand.

Editor’s Draught, on Wellington Street, Leeds, sits close to the former home of the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post.

The pub has previously been known under several other guises, but has now been revamped complete with type-writers in the windows and newspaper front-page style prints on the walls.

A booth upstairs in the pub is called the Press Box, while a cocktail area is named Writer’s Block.

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Wellington Street was the YP and YEP’s home from 1970 to 2012, when both newspapers moved a five-minute walk away to No 1 Leeds, on Whitehall Road.

Only the landmark clock tower remains of the old newspaper office building, and in September developers confirmed plans to build an 18-storey tower on the site.

Editor’s Draught is run by Luton-based company Stonegate.

Ayne Ince, the pub’s operations manager, said: “Stonegate had a realisation as a company that people like the independent pubs and it makes a difference.

“This is a hybrid between a brand and a local pub. We were torn between this and the mill heritage but many people will remember the newspaper office so we went down that road.

“It was quite iconic. You would give directions using the building and still now you say ‘go where the Yorkshire Post used to be’.”

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  • November 21, 2016 at 10:48 am
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    Is the missing apostrophe in the sign meant to be ironic?

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