![]() ![]() The new building was well-situated next door to national newspaper offices, the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Sunday Express, and opposite the News of the World, and also close to Leeds Train Station. ![]() Photopress was based at 26 East Parade from 1949 until 1960 when they moved to 16 New Station Street. During the War, Jimmie’s photography skills were recognised and he went to the Royal Naval Photographic School at Portsmouth in 1941, and then to the Fleet Air Arm Photographic School at Ford where he gained more expertise, particularly in aerial photography.Īfter the War, Jimmie parted ways with Bob Ledbetter and began his own business. In around 1938, Jimmie was then made a partner in Bob’s firm. WORLD PHOTOPRESS PROFESSIONALBob took Jimmie on as a trainee so he was able to gain experience in a wide range of photography and Jimmie also took a course in Professional and Pure Photography at Leeds College of Technology from 1935 to 1936. He was introduced to Bob Ledbetter, an older professional photographer who ran a wedding business alongside a press agency. On leaving Leeds Modern School in 1928, Jimmie didn’t have a very clear idea what he wanted to do. Photopress Leeds Ltd was a commercial photographer’s company run by James ‘Jimmie’ Waite, a professional photographer from Leeds. Donations to the project are also appreciated.As the last theme for Explore Your Archives Week is ‘Watch This Space’, it seemed a great opportunity to share a project that I have been working on at WYAS Leeds with our Photopress (Leeds) collection (WYL5000). ![]() Even if you don’t need the support, this purchase helps fund the development of this project. However, we ask that you purchase a support membership. Please file any bugs, feature, or support requests on Github! Donate or Purchase Premium Support! PHOTOPRESS is actively developed on Github. ![]() Our development motto is “do no harm” which means that we leverage the patterns outlined in WordPress Core and the Gutenberg editor as opposed to creating proprietary features that impede the overall usability of WordPress.
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