Stephen White

Stephen White was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, in October 1957.

He attended Peel Street Junior School, Morley, and Batley Grammar School before joining the Batley News and Morley Observer as a trainee reporter in September 1975.

Here, he met Leslie Overend, a formidable character and a legend in photographic and local newspaper circles, and established a friendship that was to last until Leslie’s death in 1989.

In 1982, Stephen joined the Yorkshire Evening Post, in Leeds, as a sub-editor.

After five years working for newspapers in Sydney and Perth, Australia, he joined the Yorkshire Post, before returning to the Yorkshire Evening Post as deputy production editor, then sports-editor-in-chief.

In April 1999 he was appointed editor of the Wiltshire Times Series of newspapers, based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

In December 2001 he joined the Western Daily Press in Bristol, where he became features editor and travel editor, assistant editor then, in August 2006, deputy editor.

In 1992, Stephen published a book of Leslie’s photographs from the 1960s. The book was entitled Overend’s Morley, 100 pictures of Morley people at work and play. A limited number of copies are still available. (Place An Order)

Since June 1993, Stephen has been contributing a picture a week to the Morley Observer for its popular Overend’s Morley feature, where readers are asked to identify old pictures and contribute their comments.

In recent years Stephen has been busy archiving Leslie’s huge collection of negatives and is keen to see his pictures “live” again.