A Wetherspoon pub in Nottinghamshire is one of a string under the Tim Martin umbrella to be put up for sale. Officials said in September the chain planned to sell 32 of its pubs.
And The Widow Frost, in Leeming Street in Mansfield, is on the list. No more pubs from across Nottinghamshire make up the rest of the 32. News of the sale of the pubs came after the pub chain warned that it could face loses of £30 million due to rising staff wages and repairs.
The pub chain has confirmed in recent days that seven more pubs will be sold, too, reports the Mirror Online. Wetherspoon officials have not yet said where the new batch of affected pubs are, however.
A Wetherspoon spokesperson said the sell-off was a "commercial decision" and that the venues would continue to trade until a buyer was found. If no sale can be agreed then the venues will stay open as normal.
The 32 pubs up for sale so far are:
Barnsley – Silkstone Inn
Beaconsfield – Hope & Champion
Bexleyheath – Wrong ‘Un
Bournemouth – Christopher Creeke
Cheltenham – Bank House
Durham – Water House
Halifax – Percy Shaw
Hanham – Jolly Sailor
Harrow – Moon on the Hill
Hove – Cliftonville Inn
London Battersea – Asparagus
London East Ham – Miller's Well
London Eltham – Bankers Draft
London Forest Gate – Hudson Bay
London Forest Hill – Capitol
London Hornsey – Toll Gate
London Holborn – Penderel's Oak
London Islington – Angel
London Palmers Green – Alfred Herring
Loughborough – Moon & Bell
Loughton – Last Post
Mansfield – Widow Frost
Middlesborough – Resolution
Purley – Foxley Hatch
Redditch – Rising Sun
Sevenoaks - Sennockian
Southampton – Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis
Stafford – Butler's Bell
Watford – Colombia Press
West Bromwich – Billiard Hall
Willenhall – Malthouse
Wirral – John Masefield
The first Wetherspoon pub was opened in 1979 in London's Muswell Hill. For the first month it was called Martin’s Free House, but was renamed in 1980.
Wetherspoon was the name of one of Martin's teachers, who told him he would never be a success. The company began opening more pubs in north London, and went from there, opening more and more branches around the country.
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