Bloomfield Square,Otley

Bloomfield Square is a café and working letterpress print studio on Gay Lane, opened in 2017 by Emma Thorpe and her partner Tony Wright, a printer by trade and former frontman of the Bradford band Terrorvision. The pair bought and renovated an eighteenth-century building, taking its name from an existing street sign found on the wall. At the front, the single-site café serves specialist coffee, cakes and light lunches beneath prints, paintings and etchings by local artists. Behind it sits Wright's print studio, filled with antique printing equipment, including an Arab platen press patented by Josiah Wade and built in Halifax in 1895, still in working order. Letterpress workshops run from the studio, teaching visitors to set type and pull prints on the historic machinery, adding a working craft dimension to Otley's café scene.