I’ve been in there once, over 10 years ago. I agree it was a lovely building both inside and out if I remember correctly. I did think though the interior lighting could have been better, it was quite dull. This of course may be much better now.
When the Picture House was refurbished after the last flood, they fitted flood defences akin to those on the Severn at Shrewsbury, so it should be OK now the Sow has flooded most of Stafford town centre (Victoria Park, Sainsbury's car parks, Queensway westbound, Silkmore Lane)
Possibly not. Here's a photo, which is not of one of Mr Martin's establishments, the "Weatherspoons" in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote:
How long as the Colwyn Bay 'spoons been open?
October 98. Featured a couple of years ago on a C5 documentary about famous people on the dole and Bruce Jones (Les Battersby, Corrie) was drinking in there.
An inferior pint to boot.
I had wondered why there was a giant wooden cow in the beer garden - not something you see everywhere!
I used the Wetherspoons in Bromley the Sunday of the August Bank Holiday weekend in 2021. This was in part because the Caffe Nero was closed that day, maybe through staff isolating as that was the time of the "pingdemic".
Never been there, but the Sedge Lynn in Chorlton has a different look about it.
The Sedge Lynn - JD Wetherspoon · 21A Manchester Rd, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 9PN
★★★★☆ · Pubmaps.app.goo.gl
I visited The Sedge Lynn and Gateway earlier this month for the first time. I used Metrolink to visit both of them, as they are both near tram stops, plus the Gateway is also near East Didsbury station, from which I caught a train afterwards.
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That article is three years old and there has been no sign of any construction. Its still possible, especially as JDW gave up the nearby Knights Templar, but they seem to be downsizing within London.I believe JDW is to open a new outlet in the former Lloyds Bank in the Strand, opposite the Royal Courts of Justice:
London’s Famously Beautiful Bank At 222 Strand Is Becoming A Massive Wetherspoons
Affectionaly know as 'London's most beautiful bank', Number 222 Strand, formley Lloyds, is now set to become a whopping Wetherspoons.
This will be handy. My very first job was at 99 Aldwych, just across the road from there and I had a bank account opened for me by my new employer at that branch. I seem to recall some years later, having moved on, that I'd left about £2-18s-4d in my account. I'll make enquiries when I pop into the new pub for a pint. Hopefully it will still be in the vault and it might buy me half of Abbott.
Funny - I always found that portion control was unyielding - it would be the same as the menu picture with no variances in quantity or components (although the quality is always good). One thing to watch out for up here is some outlets (in touristy areas) proclaim a ‘Traditional’ Breakfast. Whilst others offer ‘Scottish Breakfast’ - it’s either/or no chance to choose. The only difference I can see is the Hash Browns are dropped in favour of Black Pudding and a Potato Scone. No idea why when they’re all in Scotland!
No there isn't. I walk past that place once or twice a month and it is desolate. I stumbled across the article when I was trying to find details of another (rumoured) JDW development in The Strand, which was said to be "next to Charing Cross Station". I can't find anything out about that either and again, walking that way occasionally, I cannot see even where it might be.
The Captain Flinders (Eversholt Street off Euston Road, exit the station next to M&S) opened today;
