PLENTY OF PUBS IN OTLEY!

We've now left Ilkley behind, with or without us 'ats.  The next stop is just along the valley at Burley in Wharfedale and its railway station in pre-grouping days. A Midand Railway service arrives.

Here's the station photographed in 1961 (Ben Brooksbank).

Bradford Corporation's trolleybuses once reached Burley in Wharfedale.

The White Horse was a fine Tetley house back in 1988. It's still in business and has a good report here.

Not far away, Menston station, on the line towards Bradford.

High above the town of Otley is The Chevin, where the Royalty pub can be found.

The railway (Midland and North Eastern Joint) station in Otley has long gone.

Otley Cattle Market as early as 1884.

The Market Place and clock tower.

Otley parish church, seen in 1976.

Leeds trolleybuses once ran into Otley, as seen in this view of Boroughgate.

By the early 1960s, the good people of Otley had got a bus station.

Otley bus station was the hub of the Samuel Ledgard network.

Ledgard's also had a depot in Otley.

The West Yorkshire Road Car Company took over Ledgard's and continued until they became part of Firstbus. Here's a Leyland National in Metro green.

Firstbus owned MCW Metrobus 7566 in Otley, 1997.

Aztecbird used this unusual Neoplan saloon on the Airport service.

Harrogate based Connexxions still run into Otley.

I promised you plenty of pubs. Here's the first, the Black Bull, the oldest of them all.

Next up, the Bowing Green, once a brew pub, now a Wetherspoons.

Now, the Fleece, once owned by Wharfebank Brewery.

Here's the Horse & Farrier, a pretty decent boozer.

Another good one, the Junction Inn.

The Manor House was a rare (for the area) Thwaite's pub, but it is now "long-term closed".

A new pub, once an eaterie, is the Old Cock, a great free house opposite the bus station.

Two pubs for the price of one (on film). The Whitakers Arms and the Red Lion.

The Woolpack has now closed to become a music and arts studio.

So, we now leave Otley behind and head for Pool in Wharfedale. Here, just over the river and the border, in North Yorkshire, is the Hunters Inn.

And that's where I'll leave you for the moment. The next post will see us heading vaguely northwards. Follow the route here.