Vintage bus enthusiasts will enjoy a trip down memory lane at a reunion and nostalgia evening in Otley next week.

The Samuel Ledgard Society will be offering guests a seat on an old coach when they hold their annual celebration in honour of the former bus company on Tuesday.

The evening, at the Rose and Crown pub on Bondgate, starts at 7.30pm and is open to anyone with an interest in the firm – whose last service ran 42 years ago – or old vehicles.

Society chairman Barry Rennison said: “I’m really looking forward to it, we usually get a good turnout of more than 100 people and there will be memorabilia on display.

“And we’ll have an old bus there that will just go up a tour of the Weston estate, just to give people a run-out.

“Our historian, Don Bate, actually has a preserved Ledgard bus which he’s restoring just now. He is also a dab hand at modelling and makes these models of the buses that are eighth scale and so fairly big, which are just wonderful.

“We can’t bring them along though, unfortunately, as they’re a bit too valuable to risk having them knocked over.”

Samuel Ledgard buses enjoyed a strong reputation for reliability when they ran in the Otley area between 1912 and 1967.