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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a great little exhibition about 400 years of #LeedsHistory on at @leedslibraries.bsky.social at the moment - and it's really good to see the role of the local alternative press properly acknowledged. #Leeds400 #LeedsOtherPaper #ChapeltownNews

Copies of Leeds Other Paper and The Other Paper on display at Leeds Central Library as part of the exhibition - Leodis: 400 years of Leeds in the Leeds Libraries Collection (on until 11 Nov 2026)

Copy of Chapeltown News on display at Leeds Central Library as part of the exhibition - Leodis: 400 years of Leeds in the Leeds Libraries Collection (on until 11 Nov 2026)

Copies of Leeds Mercury and Leeds Other Paper on display at Leeds Central Library as part of the exhibition - Leodis: 400 years of Leeds in the Leeds Libraries Collection (on until 11 Nov 2026)

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Glad to hear Leeds Other Paper's role in covering the local music scene being acknowledged in this audio trail.

Cover of flyer/map for the Alternative Music in Leeds audio trail by Leeds Nomad - image of a City Square statue holding a microphone in the air.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The wall of sound - it's good to see former Leeds Other Paper photographer #TonyWoolgar being remembered with a whole wall of his Leeds music scene pics, on now at #NorthernGuitars on Call Lane in the city (just around the corner from LOP's last premises). #LeedsHistory

Sign on wall inside Northern Guitars cafe bar reading: Photos in this section by legendary Leeds photographer Tony Woolgar

Some of Tony Woolgar's photos on display at Northern Guitars cafe bar in Leeds

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Fifty years ago... Here's the 1976 #ChapeltownCarnival as covered at the time by Leeds Other Paper.

Photo of revellers from LOP 38, captioned: Leeds West Indian Carnival - back page

LOP 38 (4 Sept 1976) front page, main headline: FEARS FOR SAFETY OF LEEDS BUSES. Also pic from Chapeltown Carnival in Leeds.

Back page of LOP 38 (4 Sept 1976) with report and 2 more pics from Leeds West Indian Carnival.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's great to see Leeds Other Paper remembered in the People's History of Leeds, volume 2 of which was launched last night (@peopleshistorylds.bsky.social, @leedsopf.bsky.social, @leedsmuseums.bsky.social).

Display stand featuring 3 front pages of Leeds Other Paper plus quotes from Gordon Wilson and Tony Harcup.

Display stand for the People's History of Leeds chapter on the DIY Revolution, introduced by Peter Slater.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

With #LeedsPride coming up this weekend, here's a reminder that Leeds Other Paper was doing this stuff long before many of today's revellers were born. As well as relevant news and features, LOP launched its 'Out in the North' column back in 1987. Long gone, never forgotten.

LOP 497 (18 Sept 1987) front page piece announcing: 'Out in Leeds: new section starts this week - your guide to lesbian and gay activities and entertainments in the city'

LOP 497 (18 Sept 1987) 'Out in the North' listings

LOP 404 (22 Nov 1985) front page headline: Taking the lid off AIDS

LOP/Northern Star 794 (8 July 1993) front page headline: Heterosexuality - can it be cured? what causes it?

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

An exhibition has just opened at the @peacemuseumuk.bsky.social at Salts Mill in Saltaire about the anti-fascist carnival and sit-down protest that took place in Bradford 50 years ago this month - here's how Leeds Other Paper covered it at the time.

LOP 33 (26 June 1976) headline: Anti-fascist carnival in Bradford.
Plus photo of sit-down protest surrounded by police officers in Bradford city centre; and photo of York Shoestring Theatre in Manningham Park.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

On this day in 1984 striking miner Joe Green died on a Yorkshire picket line. I'm pretty sure this portrait was produced in tribute by Brian Lewis of Yorkshire Art Circus, who passed it on for publication in Leeds Other Paper. #MinersStrike #JoeGreen #BrianLewis

LOP 331 (22 June 1984): In Memoriam Joe Green 15th June 1984

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Here's some of Leeds Other Paper's coverage from the time. #LeedsHistory #Chapeltown

LOP 23 (December 1975): Fireworks in Chapeltown

LOP 35 (24 July 1976): Chapeltown trial report.
Plus photo of protest on Town Hall steps, placards include: 'Blame the system not the youth'

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

West Yorkshire's latest news outlet @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social has launched today, thanks to @millmedia.bsky.social. It looks a bit more professional than the launch issue of Leeds Other Paper back in 1974, but we won't hold that against them.

The Exchange website 01-06-2026 PANIC! AT THE COUNCIL

LOP number 1 (Jan 1974): Don't let the bastards carve us up

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Interesting exchange on this LOP letters' page from 1987, about the other Other Paper. #LeedsHistory

LOP 501 (16 Oct 1987) letter from Martin Verity re origins of Leeds Other Paper and its forerunner The Other Paper - illustrated with a front page of The Other Paper from 1969.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Here's one of yours, Janis - illustrating a news story about the Leeds Club.

LOP 457 (5 Dec 1986) cartoon strip by Janis Goodman

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Here's an interesting press review of the first two issues of the short-lived News on Sunday newspaper, from the rather longer-lived Leeds Other Paper in May 1987. #WhatThePapersSay

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

George Lindo freed - some more of LOP's coverage of the 1970s campaign that inspired the LKJ poem It Dread Inna Inglan (see @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social for the full poem on the front of Bradford Black magazine).

LOP 101 (30 March 1979) front page: Campaign wins Bradford man's freedom - George Lindo free pending appeal

LOP 101 (30 March 1979): George Lindo freed - from front page.
Plus photo of George Lindo with daughter Dawn.

LOP 102 (13 April 1979) - George Lindo at public meeting

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Here is some of Leeds Other Paper's contemporary coverage of the George Lindo case, including Linton Kwesi Johnson reciting his poem It Dread Inna Inglan outside the Tyrls police station in Bradford. (More to follow, @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social)

Front page story from LOP 78 (14 April 1978) headline: BRADFORD BLACKS WARN POLICE plus photo of Linton Kwesi Johnson captioned: A poem for George Lindo...

LOP 78 (14 April 1978) story continues, headline: George Lindo march plus photo of marchers and report.

LOP 75 (3 March 1978) headline: Prison pickets claim frame-up - Jailhouse ain't George's house!

LOP 75 (3 March 1978) continued from page one: Jailhouse ain't George's house. Plus blurb about Leeds Other Paper.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Lots of #GeneralStrike100 stuff around at the moment as we approach its centenary. Fifty years ago, Leeds Other Paper looked back at events of 50 years earlier with a series on how the 1926 General Strike unfolded in and around Leeds.

LOP 31 (29 May 1976) The General Strike in Leeds - no. 1 of a series

LOP 32 (12 June 1976) The General Strike in Leeds - no. 2 of a series

LOP 33 (26 June 1976) The General Strike in Leeds - no. 3 of a series

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

On this day in 1989 @cnduk.bsky.social campaigners invaded the US spy base at Menwith Hill. As reported in Leeds Other Paper at the time, the anti-war protest was an #AprilFool from @yorkshirecnd.bsky.social.

LOP 576 (7 April 1989) headlined: Mass peace entry fools Menwith Hill security plans.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Ah, the good old Leeds owl. Leeds Other Paper used to have one on its masthead, which changed a bit over the years but remained an owl with attitude.

Drawing of an owl winking and weeing, from LOP masthead.

Another drawing of an owl winking and weeing, from LOP masthead.

Drawing of an owl playing the guitar, from LOP masthead.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Just spotted a copy of a special 1926 General Strike issue of the Leeds Citizen in these archives - a great resource.

The Leeds Citizen Special Strike Bulletin Sat 8 May 1926 price one halfpenny, front page headlines include: Message to all workers; Leeds trams; and Printers solid.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

And here's the front and back pages of the last LOP (Northern Star) for you.

LOP/Northern Star 820 (20 Jan 1994) front page - The collector's issue, with reproduction of first Leeds Other Paper masthead from Jan 1974.

LOP/Northern Star 820 (20 Jan 1994) back page - statement from staff of Leeds Alternative Publications co-op announcing the paper's closure.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

West Yorkshire is to get a new independent news and investigative outlet with @leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social - it won't be Leeds Other Paper, but it'll be much better than nowt. To mark this good news, here's a piece about LOP from its final issue in 1994, by which time it was called Northern Star.

LOP/Northern Star 820 (20 Jan 1994) Inside Story 1974-1994 text and photos on the history of Leeds Other Paper...

...LOP/Northern Star 820 (20 Jan 1994) Inside Story 1974-1994 text and photos on the history of Leeds Other Paper continued.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

As International Women's Day is almost upon us, here's some coverage of the 1978 version from Leeds Other Paper to get everyone in the mood. #IWD #LeedsHistory

LOP 76 (17 March 1978) headlined Women Have a Fair, report and photo from International Women's Day fair held in the Corn Exchange, Leeds.

Photo from the March page of the 1979 Leeds Other Paper calendar, captioned - March '78: Leeds women organise a Women's Fair at the Corn Exchange to celebrate International Women's Day.

LOP 75 (3 March 1978) includes a letter headlined Women's Fair that gives details of the International Women's Day fair to be held in the Corn Exchange, Leeds. Plus a letter about a summer playscheme, a news report about a picket of WH Smith over its refusal to stock Gay News, and an advert for Beano wholefoods.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Just realised that, either this classic Leeds Other Paper front page from 1975 was inspired by this poster from Paris 1968, or great minds really do think alike...

LOP number 15 (April 1975) front page: 'The council consults - I participate, you participate, they knock our houses down'.

Paris 1968 poster that is translated as 'I participate, you participate, he participates, we participate, you participate, they profit 'by Atelier Populaire (Popular Workshop).

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Women reclaim the night - here's Leeds Other Paper on the first march in Leeds nearly 50 years ago. The struggle goes on...

LOP number 69 (25 Nov 1977) - Women reclaim the night report and photo.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The ghosts of alternative Leeds papers of the past say - best of luck with this!

Leeds Other Paper/Northern Star graphic reading 'Leeds Leeds Leeds'

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The ghosts of alternative Leeds papers of the past say - best of luck with this!

'Leeds Leeds Leeds' graphic cropped from front page of Leeds Other Paper/Northern Star

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It's good to see @nujleeds.bsky.social join Bluesky - to mark the occasion, here's a pic of the old Leeds NUJ branch banner alongside the lesser spotted Leeds Other Paper one, from a picket outside YPN HQ on Wellington Street back in the day. #HeartUnions

Crop of photo from LOP 525 (5 April 1988) showing Leeds NUJ branch banner, LOP banner, and assembled pickets and supporters.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Who knew that Leeds Other Paper had a Jersey correspondent? I think this was their first and last appearance, on the occasion of the National Union of Mineworkers taking its 1979 annual conference to the coalfields of the, er, Channel Islands. Yorkshire delegates were not best pleased.

LOP 108 (6 July 1979) story headlined: Bring our conference home - miners blast tax haven - from our Jersey correspondent (plus cartoon).

LOP 108 (6 July 1979) front page, including story headlined: Bring our conference home - miners blast tax haven - from our Jersey correspondent (plus cartoon)

LOP 108 (6 July 1979) text of story concludes on back page.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A bridge too far? It's good to see this old LOP 'exclusive' given a new lease of life in the splendid Yorkshire Almanac 2026, courtesy of @organgrinder.bsky.social.

Artist's impression of proposed bridge across Meanwood Valley from Leeds Other Paper number 101 (for April Fool's Day 1979).

Front cover of Yorkshire Almanac 2026 by @organgrinder.bsky.social

LOP 101 (30 March 1979): A bridge too far? LOP exclusive.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

What a lot of news - a busy LOP front page from January 1983. #LeedsHistory #LeedsOtherPaper

LOP 259 (28 Jan 1983) front page, main headline: Chemical fire victims take council to court...

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

'There's nothing like people for making a place human' - 50 years ago this month the future of Kirkgate Market following a big fire was concerning Leeds Other Paper and its readers.

LOP 24 (Jan 1976) front page headline: Market future uncertain. Plus pic of market stall selling flowers.

LOP 24 (Jan 1976) editorial - Market future

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Ah the Au Pairs...different but equal, eh? Saw 'em play in Potternewton Park for Rock Against Racism and the Anti Nazi League, summer of 1981. They were great. Here's the ad from Leeds Other Paper the week before.

LOP 177 (26 June 1981) advert for ANL/RAR Northern Carnival Against Racism Leeds 4 July 1981 with The Specials, Misty, Aswad and the Au Pairs.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Santa didn't forget them - another ghost of Christmas past from Leeds Other Paper's coverage of the #MinersStrike 🎅

LOP 358 (4 Jan 1985) - Santa didn't forget them! An Operation Food Force van leaves Leeds carrying a Christmas present for every striking miner's child in the N Yorkshire coal field.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

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.

York Stop Press! Number 1, 14 December 1978 - Why journalists seek justice

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Here's Leeds Other Paper's coverage of that for you. @greenhamwomen.bsky.social

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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.

LOP 304 (9 Dec 1983) front page blurb - Save our pub from the planners!

LOP 304 (9 Dec 1983) photos and report of plaque laying ceremony: 'On this spot stood the Roscoe. A pleasant pub demolished for road works. If you seek the planners' monument, look around you. This plaque was placed here in November 1983 by regulars of the Eldon, Woodhouse Lane, a pub now fighting for its life.'

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Here are two pre-publication dummies of what eventually entered the world as Leeds Other Paper. Who would have thought it would go on to survive 20 years, eh?

Leeds Aire January 1974 - part of dummy front page for what became Leeds Other Paper

Soot number one (Jan 1974) - part of dummy front page for what became Leeds Other Paper

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It's good to see some old LOPs being used in 2025 'to chat, collage, and collectively process the month's news and what we can do to fight back'. www.tickettailor.com/events/thech...

The Chica Co-op Collage Club graphic including extracts from Leeds Other Paper

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Women angry at male violence - as reported in Leeds Other Paper, 45 years ago this month. #ReclaimTheNight #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

LOP 148 (28 Nov 1980) front page: Women, angry at male violence, say 'Resist the curfew!'

LOP 148 (28 Nov 1980) p4 - text of editorial, plus criticism of YEP placing a pin-up photo next to news story about 'Yorkshire Ripper'

LOP 148 (28 Nov 1980) p5 - Support the sisters - Students demand action - Conference against sexual violence to women.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

A fine building - but don't forget that from 1981 to 1987 #LeedsOtherPaper was also based there. Our editorial office was in what had once been the gents' toilets, if I remember rightly.

LOP masthead: Leeds Other Paper with What's On 15p every Friday

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Mon 8 Dec - a date for the diary for anyone interested in hearing more about #LeedsOtherPaper, courtesy of the Ford Maguire Society.

Flyer for Ford Maguire Society talk by Tony Harcup on Leeds Other Paper, Mon 8 December 2025, 7.30pm at the Swarthmore Centre in Leeds.

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Enough is enough - good to see #ReclaimTheNight featured in today's Yorkshire Evening Post.

Yorkshire Evening Post 29 Oct 2025 - Leeds picture of the day - Reclaim the night march

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Some curious sightlines but some great gigs. Much missed. It's a Hugo Boss store now 😞

Hugo Boss store on Vicar Lane, Leeds - site of the former Duchess pub. With blue plaque.

Blue plaque from Leeds Civic Trust for Duchess pub in Leeds.

Recreation of Duchess at Leeds City Museum, celebrating John Keenan's role in putting on gigs at the pub (and throughout Leeds since the 1970s).

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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Good too to see LOP's man at the front of gigs with the big old camera - Tony Woolgar - being recognised at @leedsmuseums.bsky.social's #MusicLeedsUs exhibition.

Caption on wall at Music Leeds Us exhibition at Leeds City Museum: Gig photography Tony Woolgar...During the 1980s he was a music photographer for Leeds Other Paper...

Photographs (and much more) on display at Music Leeds Us exhibition at Leeds City Museum.

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