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
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
The Babington Arms sits on the outskirts of Derby city centre, having opened in 1997 and reviving the name of a pub which stood just down the road until it closed in the 1920s. The pub inhabits the ground floor of a block of offices, with the more traditional and somewhat dated blue-and-gold J.D. Wetherspoon… Read More The Babington Arms – Derby, DE1 1TA
The Standing Order occupies a huge palazzo-style building constructed in the 1880s. It was built as a branch of the Crompton & Evans Union Bank, later occupied by NatWest from 1970 until it closed in 1993 before its transformation into the pub as it stands today. It should come as no surprise to find that… Read More The Standing Order – Derby, DE1 3GL
The Amber Rooms is a fairly modern Lloyds No. 1, built in 2001 along with the nearby The Rushes shopping centre. It occupies the site formerly used by Loughboroughs electricity works, Brush Electrical Engineering Co., which quite interestingly was hit in WWI by bombs dropped from a zeppelin. The pub’s name comes from the Greek… Read More The Amber Rooms – Loughborough, LE11 5BE
This pub is named after an interesting and unique piece of Coalville’s history. On Saturdays and Sundays from the 1930s, young single men and women would walk from the Co-Op clock (which is just opposite the pub) to Lashmore’s clock, a short distance across the town on the other side of the Belvoir shopping centre.… Read More The Monkey Walk – Coalville, LE67 3WD
When people think of Leicester, a few things probably come to mind. In recent history it’s perhaps Leicester City’s surprising 2016 Premier League glory which stands out, but the city has a rich history, dating back to the Roman times, and of course quite famously the resting place of King Richard III. The city centre… Read More The Best Wetherspoon Pubs in Leicester
The Shoulder of Mutton in Ashby-de-la-Zouch has been an inn since the mid-18th century, when it belong to the Adams family. Prior to being purchased by JD Wetherspoon it was owned and operated by Bass Worthington before falling into disrepair. The pub itself is made up of a variety of different buildings, all of which… Read More The Shoulder of Mutton – Ashby-de-la-Zouch, LE65 1AF
The Kettleby Cross is a relatively young JD Wetherspoon pub, opened in 2007 as the company’s flagship ‘eco-pub’. For over a decade it generated its own electricity via a large wind turbine on the roof, now relying on photovoltaic tiles, and is designed to minimise its energy usage through rainwater harvesting, thermally efficient flooring and… Read More The Kettleby Cross – Melton Mowbray, LE13 0UJ
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