retiredmartin

May 2025. Wetherby.

Well, I wasn’t expecting that level of vitriol in the comments after my usual scrupulously honest report on the Leeds-Wetherby bus. But read on, Anonymous…

I trudged on after Wetherby’s eponymous brewery tap through light industrial estates, to Bosun’s, the actual Guide newbie.

It’s a quarter to four, the Golden Hour awaits, and they’re playing “Don’t You Want Me“. It’s always bugged me that the Human League didn’t add a question mark.

Bosun’s has made a decent job of making an industrial unit look welcoming, though the seating will divide opinion.

The young barman is cheery and chatty, particularly on the subject of Wetherby pubs, and pours a gorgeously cool and chewy pint of Castaway (NBSS 4), which proves something. Or other.

I leave as the after-work lads arrive, and “Boys Don’t Cry” starts, mentally preparing for the 5pm bump bus back to Leeds.

Wetherby looks grand,

and I’d have popped in the only recent GBG entry Mews aka Muse aka Moose (perhaps) if I hadn’t feared needing a wee somewhere on the A58.

Some lovely cafes around the market place, and an example of modern shop signs detracting from architecture.

And then then the X98, a slight revised route which wasn’t bad at all, hardly a bump in sight,

though with delays I managed to arrive back at the station just in time to miss the fast train to Sheffield.

Oh well, I guess there’s a pub in Leeds to kill half an hour.