May 2025. Leeds.
It’s chaos round Leeds station at the moment, but then the city’s skyline always seems in a state of flux, it’s what makes a great city.
The bus back from Wetherby was uneventful, though I did manage to snap one of the Art Deco highlights on the A58. presumably taken as I was sent flying sideways as we skidded through Harehills.
Arriving late meant a legal obligation to have a half in one pub I hadn’t tried for a while, though I’ve had a few good “surveys” here of late.
I think it’s actually impossible to get to the Scarbrough from the station at the moment, so I took an aimless wander around Briggate and the Calls,
and realised Wapentake, opposite the market, was worth a revisit.
This was a favourite of our dear friend Richard Coldwell; they brewed a beer in his honour I enjoyed at a celebration of his life;
Since then it’s been threatened with closure and reprieved, and bounced back into the Guide.
It’s a cosy small pub, rather than a micro, setting up for live music.
Guinness and keg Vocation the beers of choice at 6pm,
and if I’m honest it’s not quite the cask stronghold I remember, but as comfy a bar as you could hope for on Kirkgate.
retiredmartin 
Maybe you should have gone to Brew Society on Aire Street? Sheffield Hatters favourite call closest call to Leeds station
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Brew Soc great but been fairly recently. Need the Brew York to reopen in its new location.
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Oops! One ‘call’ too many… Soz!
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Never enough.
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The art deco building was the Clock Cinema & also where I had ballet lessons back in the 60’s . It used to have a nice fountain in the foyer . I lived fairly close by ( not Harehills though – we were in the “posher “ bit off Easterly Road . Pauline
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Good work, Pauline. I might have known you were in the posher bit.
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