" seafront into a giant Wetherspoon"
http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/ahead...ail/story.html
" seafront into a giant Wetherspoon"
http://www.thanetgazette.co.uk/ahead...ail/story.html
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
might explain why they've been closing other Spoons, they are financing this!
"A small independent pub group passionate about"
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/ne...craft-11288347
Last edited by hondo; 06-05-2016 at 13:57.
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
33 more 'Spoons pubs to be put up for sale...
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/O...urther-33-pubs
One surprise for me on the list is the Monks Retreat in Reading , I am no JDW fan but its far superior to the Hope Tap at the other end of the street.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Some of these are on the lists dating from June and November last year. Others are from the ad-hoc closures earlier in the year. The High Wycombe and Didsbury ones had been reported as saved! The Stirling one was a proposed outlet so isn't a closure as it hadn't opened.
I make it 26 new ones (I expect I've miscounted).
Banbury Fleur-de-Lis
Bathgate James Young
Berwick Leaping Salmon
Birmingham Solomon Cutler
Bootle Merton Inn
Boscombe Sir Percy Florence Shelley
Bradford Sir Titus Salt
Cheadle Hulme Kings Hall
Dagenham Lord Denman
Ellesmere Port Thomas Telford
Forest Hill Capitol
Hull William Wilberforce
Mansfield Stag & Pheasant
Mitcham White Lion Of Mortimer
Newbury Diamond Tap
Newcastle Union Rooms
Newport Tom Toya Lewis
Newquay Cribbar
North Finchley Tally Ho
Nuneaton Felix Holt
Putney Railway
Reading Monks Retreat
Rugby Lawrence Sheriff
Sunderland Lambton Worm
Torquay London Inn
Walton On Thames Regent
I reckon around a dozen of those are in the South and that includes Banbury which to me is the Midlands. I doubt that the good people of Newport in South Wales would take kindly to being classed as in "London and the South".
For me the most surprising one is the Railway in Putney. With the Rocket and the Fulham Oyster Rooms already earmarked for closure this leaves a whole swathe of SW London without a JDW.
Last edited by Aqualung; 20-05-2016 at 18:48.
Now why did that comment not surprise me??? I did wonder how it would be phrased!
They've definitely picked the wrong one in Nuneaton. The Felix Holt is one of the best ones I've been to while the William White is a full blown Lloyds and one of the worst in their estate.
shame about the union rooms
The Union Rooms (JD Wetherspoon)
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"