Early last year we decided to book a July trip to the Isle of Wight. Primarily inspired by our desire to tick off the island’s two Wetherspoons, we quickly decided there was far too much to be explored, and it was far too long of a journey, for us not to give the island a… Read More Wetho Wanderers’ Isle of Wight Adventure
The church forming part of The Man in the Moon was once the Newport Congregational Church, dating back to 1848 when the Gothic-style ‘Great Chapel’ was built. The pub takes its name from the plot of land, which carried the same name in the will of a local man as far back as 1680. Since… Read More The Man in the Moon – Newport, PO30 5HB
S Fowler & Co in Ryde inhabits the building that was once a department store, opened by Samuel Fowler and dating back to the 19th century. The store stood for at least a century until it was heavily damaged by a fire in 1991; seven years later it was purchased by JD Wetherspoon and opened… Read More S Fowler & Co – Ryde, PO33 2LF
Leicestershire is known for being a beautiful county (and the home of savoury foods and brilliant cheese!), and bordering our very own Nottinghamshire it’s not surprising that it’s one of the first counties we were able to completely tick off. Five of the county’s Wetherspoons are in or around Leicester, with the remaining five located… Read More We Visited Every Wetherspoon Pub in Leicestershire
The Sugar Loaf started life as Thomas Goward’s grocery shop, where he would blend tea, ground coffee and spices and cut sugar from a sugar loaf for his customers, hence the name. For a century from 1810 the shop traded, and the two floors above the pub housed Goward’s large household; his wife and three… Read More The Sugar Loaf – Market Harborough, LE16 7NJ
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