The Moon on the Hill
Another wetherspoons for the books and the first thing we notice is the drop in age of the crowd, that and the signature wetherspoons lack of music. The frontage of the bar is glass but the place is pretty big and it needs to be, of a Saturday, as one [...]
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Tags: Sutton
December 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Beehive Pub
A long narrow Wetherspoons pub on Brixton high street just a very short walk from the station down towards Brixton Academy. The service at the bar (which runs most of the length of the pub along the right hand wall) is fast and as with all Wetherspoons the drinks are very reasonable prices. [...]
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Tags: Borough and Southwark
The White Lion of Mortimer
For a pub with no atmosphere the white swan is surprisingly busy.each table is occupied with some pretty tired looking working class people looking like they are on their last legs. The service in this relatively small wetherspoons is friendly but the bar staff are incredibly slow joking amongst themselves as time [...]
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Tags: Angel and Islington
The Windmill
HEavy are the crowds in Standstead Airport, and like a light, bright in the darkness is the neon glow of a wetherspoons. Swimming depper into the ebbings flux or people, a half rooved pub emerges inside the sheer stadium like size of the terminal. The place is a mess, people arriving in bursts and quietening [...]
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Tags: One Visit Wonders
The Isambard Kingdom Brunel
On approaching this pub i was quite surprised it was such a large flagship venue. From outside its seems that it presence and size are something of a secret. Only making my way up the front stairs and entering the long hall of the pub was its grandeur revealed. The hall was [...]
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Tags: Portsmouth
January 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments
The Gatehouse Wetherspoons
Quite what a wetherspoons is doing parked in the centre of the quiet village of highgate, i’m not too sure. Its stands out much like a sore thumb as the pickle of chain-bar high-street conglomerate which really doesn’t belong in these parts and its popularity is demonstrated within. Its a well don-out building, [...]
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Tags: Highgate and Archway
The Moon in The Square
On the first level of this multiple level wetherspoons are small stairs up to a platform and down to an addition seating lounge but there still doesn’t seem to be enough seating. Then i realise that there is a second floor where the bar is quiet. Not that an overcrowding at the bar [...]
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Tags: Bournemouth
April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Coronet Pub
The coronet used to be an old cinema screen and a big one at that. The front of the venue remains much as it would have done when functioning as a cinema however many years ago. Inside the great hall is lit up with lined up tables with large capacity and a centrepiece [...]
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Tags: Holloway and Wood Green
Sir John Oldcastle
This wetherspoons is a large floorspace with a pub on top, its windows peering onto all sides of the street, ebing perched on a corner and it plays host to a bustling but not overcrowded community foundation for the area. The bar service is fast but after finding a bottle cap at the [...]
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Tags: Farringdon and Fleet Street
December 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The Wetherspoons
A medium sized Wetherspoons but a larger than average pub - this poorly names branch of the popular chain sits in a rather good position within the train station at Leeds with tables scattered on the concourse outside and within the pub young people populate the place as if it wasn’t a simple station [...]
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Tags: Leeds