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.
He served as press centre manager until the company moved the printing operations to Trinity Mirror’s Oldham plant in 2004.
Mr Shore then held a part-time job working for a print company in Lancashire.
He always said he had printers’ ink in his veins and some of his friends called him Mr Examiner.
In his spare time, he loved spending time with all his family, and having a “quick drink” with his friends in the local.
He also had a lot of musical knowledge, and always knew what, when and who recorded all the music especially from the 1960s and 70s.
He leaves wife Carol, daughter Vicky, son in law Chris and granddaughter Chloe.
The funeral service is at St Paul’s Church, Shepley, tomorrow at 1.30pm, followed by cremation at Huddersfield.
