Where is the oldest Wetherspoons?
Laurine Howe
2025-05-12 01:58:17
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The first Wetherspoon pub opened in North London – in Colney Hatch Lane, Muswell Hill. The building had been home to a bookies. For the first month, the pub was called Martin’s Free House, after Wetherspoons founder and chairman Tim Martin. Early in 1980, the pub was named Wetherspoons, after Tim’s teacher, who had taught him at school when he lived in New Zealand and told him that he would not amount to anything.
The company’s oldest pub is The Rochester Castle in Stoke Newington, North London. The earliest known pub on this site was The Green Dragon, which existed as far back as 1702. The present pub, which replaced that one in 1801, is called The Rochester Castle because it was built by Richard Payne from Rochester.
Abdiel Conn
2025-05-11 23:25:22
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This year marks the 45th anniversary of the opening of the pub that started the Wetherspoons chain, in December 1979. I used to drink in Marlers bar with friends and with my late father at the end of the 1970s and early 1980s. It was about a mile from my parent’s house which was in the Alexandra Park area of Muswell Hill. The pub has long since ceased to be a Spoons anyway but the story has a, for most, happy ending. Wetherspoons returned to Muswell Hill, up the hill, just at the top of the hill itself in fact. The official view is that ‘this town ain’t big enough for two Spoons’. Wetherspoons started out in Haringey and Tim Martin is on record as saying that a key reason was because there were no decent pubs where he then lived in Wood Green. What was Marlers Bar, Colney Hatch Lane, Muswell Hill, N10.
Rhea Brakus
2025-05-11 22:59:08
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The oldest Wetherspoons is in Stoke Newington. It's officially the oldest Spoons still in existence and has been serving glass after glass of cheap booze to punters since 1983. Luckily for me, I just hopped on a train to Stoke Newington to find it. The Rochester Castle on Stoke Newington High Street managed to blend itself into its eclectic surroundings. Its earliest incarnation was The Green Dragon which was around in 1702, demolished 100 years later and replaced with a new building in 1801. The builder was Richard Payne, from Rochester, and so the pub got its current name.
Green McKenzie
2025-05-11 22:02:45
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The tour before Xmas 2019 was designed to mark the 40th anniversary of the first Wetherspoons, Marlers Bar in Muswell Hill.
Marlers Bar, Muswell Hill is mentioned as the first Wetherspoons.
The stated aim was to visit the locations of the first 10 actual Wetherspoons pubs when Tim Martin had split business wise from Andrew Marler.
Only one now, the Rochester Castle in Stoke Newington, remains open as a Spoons.
The original Muswell Hill Marlers Bar
Marlers Bar in Muswell Hill.
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