You’re going back about 20 years there. It’s the First bus staff canteen nowThere used to be - it might still be there - a pub within Bradford Interchange, accessed from the stairs leading from the concourse to the railway station.
You’re going back about 20 years there. It’s the First bus staff canteen now
Arguably, the Avenue Bar on the other side of the road is closer (and less rough).Thanks. It would be about 20 years ago since I last walked up those stairs. I suppose The Queen, just down Bridge Street from the entrance to the Interchange, will be the closest now . . . if it still a going concern.
The Grove is decent, but I hadn't considered it as it's outside the ring-road: the road it is across is several lanes wide at that point so it's hardly on the doorstep of the bus station. I certainly wouldn't advise nipping in there if you've less than 20mins to your bus, unless your bus is the Golcar Circular (301/302) which runs right past the pub.Woah, steady on! The Grove is only across the road. It has the finest array of pub taxidermy and weird stuff in the north (and the beer's top notch, too)
There was a proper wipe-your-feet-on-the-way-out boozer bolted onto Crewe bus station until a couple of years ago, too.
Hi Wazoo,A few years ago, I did a piece of work about the location of a certain retail chain who often placed their stores near bus stations or main bus stops; their rationale was they served a certain demographic who would be more reliant on buses.
I wonder if the same rationale exists with Wetherspoons, and so they are disproportionately near bus stations?
My view of Spoons has changed over the years, from thinking they were ok to being really put off by them; that was before the whole Brexit/Covid propaganda in the windows and at your table. I don't go to a pub for Tim Martin's politics!
Hi Wazoo,
I've only used spoons for a quick coffee/hot drink as such but the one in Midsomer Norton is handy as a toilet as nothing much else there of that nature. All in all I imagine I've left more water in spoons over the years than consumed.
Cheers,
Mike R
Yep, the extremely popular Wetherspoons at Hillsborough is in the old swimming baths, fantastic building, well worth going in even if you are not too keen on Tim Martin!As someone has already mentioned the Old Queens Head at Sheffield Interchange I'll go for the more tenuous option of the Rawson Spring Wetherspoon at Hillsborough Interchange - the pub doors are on the outbound tram platform with the bus station across a pedestrian crossing.
Plymouth citybus have only shut theirs in recent years. Drivers can often be seen, still in uniform in the Wetherspoons across the road from the Milehouse depotthen a few bus garages had a staff social club (complete with a bar) on the premises, but I doubt there are any left.