Found bike, outside The Lexington, 16th May

Not wanting to cloud your good intentions but sorry, I think you gone done wrong! If you where going out the country for a couple of weeks you should have just left the bike where it was. There is no saying that the owner went to that particular venue. If they came back from where they had been after closing time they would have likely presumed it stolen and maybe did not have time to come back day after day to try find it. Bad moves as you basically stole it without stealing it....

is this a wind up?

I think you did the right thing.

Good luck on finding the owner.

^ this