Neverspoons.

[pigamus]

Prince of Wales packs them in like sardines half the time. It is a nice looking building though.

Well it's in the city centre next to the railway station, it's hardly going to be three men and a dog

[bgmnts]

Well it's in the city centre next to the railway station, it's hardly going to be three men and a dog

Can you imagine though...?

[Captain Crunch]

A lot of those articles use the phrase "...old post office, old court houses and even an old swimming pool".  Turns out it's The Rawton Spring in Sheffield:



Something something, ha ha chlorinated chicken burgers etc. 

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Went in there for a piss once, solid* piss 7/10. Wretched airport waiting lounge of a 'pub' though.

Just remembered, to complete the circle, Doncaster Airport's waiting lounge is in actual fact a Wetherspoons.


_*liquid

[Cloud]

Walked past Spoons.  Looked like they had one of those roped queuing systems at the bar (thought pubs had to be table service only?), pretty busy mid afternoon as always, lots of people outside.

[Sebastian Cobb]

- No sense of community, an atomised bastardisation of the pub. An waiting lounge with transient individual groups remaining together and not mixing (some will claim that's what a pub is now, but bollocks).

This is my main gripe with them. I don't go to a pub with the express intent of having a conversation with strangers, but I still don't like the way spoons (and some other big chains) basically rule it out entirely. And even as an interloper minding your own business, a pub where people seem to know each other has something about it.

[poo]

REALLY want to fuck Tim

[Icehaven]

There used to be a beautiful old theatre one in Walsall of all places, but it closed down a few years back, which is something that doesn't happen to Spoonses very often unless the building's being demolished (like the one under the old library in Brum) or something.

[ollyboro]

No matter how pissed I've been, I've never once looked at a Spoons' barmaid and thought "She definitely wants to suck me off." And that's not right.

[earl_sleek]

Walked past Spoons.  Looked like they had one of those roped queuing systems at the bar (thought pubs had to be table service only?), pretty busy mid afternoon as always, lots of people outside.

I read this at first as "queued raping system" and though bloody hell, some Spoons really are rough...

[Captain Crunch]

The Wetherspoons museum in Wolverhampton got the green light recently:



Those topper extensions always look a bit naff but I'm sure everyone knows exactly what they're doing and the whole thing will be a raging success. 

[Sebastian Cobb]

You know when you go to the bog in one and it's upstairs you go on a maze and there's sometimes one or two floors with private rooms above the main bar that clearly are huge.

Does anyone know what's going on in them? Can they be used for functions? Mason's meetings? Shooting farmyard porn?

[Captain Crunch]

The Black Horse has a conference / training suite upstairs and some have hotel rooms above. 

[thr0b]

The Elihu Yale in Wrexham still (well, 15 years ago) had old cinema screens set up behind the locked doors.

[seepage]

The Bastard Arms in Southend has a 200 year-old portrait of Tim chained up in the attic.

[pigamus]

There used to be a beautiful old theatre one in Walsall of all places, but it closed down a few years back, which is something that doesn't happen to Spoonses very often unless the building's being demolished (like the one under the old library in Brum) or something.

Yeah, it was a nice building but it always felt a bit weird and cavernous - I'm not sure it totally worked as a pub - and there always seemed to be far more people in the other one round the corner.

[paruses]

Yeah, it was a nice building but it always felt a bit weird and cavernous - I'm not sure it totally worked as a pub - and there always seemed to be far more people in the other one round the corner.

Yes pretty much exactly how I described it to my friend asking him if he could remember the name of it. I also remember it being really bright lit but that's not a memory that comes with a guarantee.

I assume the one round the corner is in the old law courts (according to said friend).

[pigamus]

yep

[Icehaven]

Yeah, it was a nice building but it always felt a bit weird and cavernous - I'm not sure it totally worked as a pub - and there always seemed to be far more people in the other one round the corner.

Didn't even know there was another one! I only go to Walsall once in a blue moon though, and haven't been for a few years now.

[cacciaguida]

Used to sidle into 'Spoons and skull a double-shot of an expensive spirit either going to or on the way back from visiting my Alzheimer's Dad. For his last six months, it was both to and fro. Alcohol's more of a sticking plaster than a crutch.

What's this from?

[Dr Trouser]

What's the one if Cardiff - the Prince of Wales? I was a student there when it opened, a gorgeous building.

I remember when it was a porno cinema, then a manky nightclub. I was too young to go into either, but I do get a stiffy sense of history when I pop in for a pint and a piss on match days

[Jockice]

A lot of those articles use the phrase "...old post office, old court houses and even an old swimming pool".  Turns out it's The Rawton Spring in Sheffield:



Something something, ha ha chlorinated chicken burgers etc.

Not even the best Wetherspoons that used to be a swimming pool in Sheffield. The inventively-named Swim Inn on Glossop Road near the city centre used to be the baths I went to most often as a kid. And if you go round the back, that car park is where my old school used to stand.

(Should have done my research. Apparently the Swim Inn's shut down. And I don't think I've ever been in the Rawson Spring (although I can spell the name correctly). The last time I went drinking in that area was last century.)

[spaghetamine]

Back when I used to live in Southampton, in my local branch of Wetherspoons (The Giddy Bridge) there was a smeared bloody hand-print on one of the toilet walls for at least four months. A mate and I also once found a human tooth on one of the tables.

[SpiderChrist]

I know the Giddy Bridge well. Used to meet in there on match days. Don't care for it much.

The Wetherspoons in Cambridge used to be the Regal Cinema

[Icehaven]

Back when I used to live in Southampton, in my local branch of Wetherspoons (The Giddy Bridge) there was a smeared bloody hand-print on one of the toilet walls for at least four months. A mate and I also once found a human tooth on one of the tables.

Ages ago in the Briar Rose in Birmingham there was a large hole in the wall on the stairs down to the toilets, and it was exactly the right size and position to suggest someone had tripped over while walking up the stairs and their head had gone straight through the wall.

[The Mollusk]

Not even the best Wetherspoons that used to be a swimming pool in Sheffield. The inventively-named Swim Inn on Glossop Road near the city centre used to be the baths I went to most often as a kid. And if you go round the back, that car park is where my old school used to stand.

(Should have done my research. Apparently the Swim Inn's shut down. And I don't think I've ever been in the Rawson Spring (although I can spell the name correctly). The last time I went drinking in that area was last century.)

They should have named it after a specific type of swimming, like Backstroke Inn, and then underneath they could have the slogan "... front crawl out!", maybe with a funny drawing of a drunk bloke in swimming trunks.

No wonder they had to close down, they clearly didn't know the first fucking thing about marketing.

[poodlefaker]

I hate those high tables and high chair/stool things.  It's like they're designed to be as uncomfortable as possible to stop you hanging around and generate high turnover. Esp. when they're covered in sticky uncleared glasses and leftover breakfasts. And all those fucking menus and promotional tat.

[Pinball]

"sticky uncleared glasses and leftover breakfasts. And all those fucking menus and promotional tat."

Otherwise known as Covid vectors.