Obituary: Alan Shore

Nov 18 2008 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A MAN who helped bring the Examiner to its readers for 37 years has died suddenly.

Alan Shore spent his working life in the Examiner press hall.

Mr Shore, 58, was born in Huddersfield’s Princess Royal Hospital and was brought up in Shelley.

He attended Penistone Grammar School and, as well as an education, acquired a wife. He met Carol at the school and the pair married in 1970, moving to Shepley.

That was four years after he had joined the team working in the Examiner press hall, then situated below the newspaper’s Ramsden Street offices.

He was one of the last apprentice printers to do a seven-year apprenticeship.

Mr Shore became the press room manager in the early 1970s and was instrumental in the move of the Examiner presses to the newly-built press hall in St Andrew’s Road, Aspley, in 1995.