Editing Wetherspoons (section)

==Properties and operations==
[[File:The Lord High Constable of England Wetherspoon pub.jpg|thumb|Beer terrace at The Lord High Constable of England in [[Gloucester Docks]]]]
[[File:Liverpool and Martin's Bank, Park Row, (west side) Leeds - geograph.org.uk - 1394854.jpg|thumb|Beckett's Bank in [[Park Row, Leeds]], its name reflecting the building's former use]]
[[File:Palladium, Llandudno 4.jpg|thumb|Entrance to The [[Palladium, Llandudno]], a theatre converted to pub in 2001.]]
Though some are new-build or late twentieth century properties, many Wetherspoon pubs are conversions of existing historic buildings which have become redundant, including banks, churches, post offices, theatres and a former public swimming pool, with many properties being [[listed building]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pub-histories|title=Pub Histories|publisher=Wetherspoons|access-date=30 March 2018}}</ref> Pubs are furnished thematically according to the heritage of the building or location, and have routinely won design awards.<ref name="cumming"/> This has been seen as part of Wetherspoon's wider engagement with local history, which includes the prominent display of posters on local history, a dedicated pub history page, and unique carpets.<ref name="smith"/>

Wetherspoons has opened outlets in the passenger terminals of some UK airports, including [[Doncaster Sheffield Airport]], [[Edinburgh Airport]], [[Gatwick Airport]], [[Heathrow Airport]], and [[London Stansted Airport|Stansted Airport]], as well as at several major railway stations, including [[London Waterloo]], [[Leeds railway station|Leeds]], [[Liverpool Lime Street railway station|Liverpool Lime Street]], [[Cannon Street station|London Cannon Street]], [[Liverpool Street station|London Liverpool Street]], and [[London Victoria station|London Victoria]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/first-look-see-inside-new-9584365|title=First look: See inside the new £2 million North Western pub at Lime Street|date=3 July 2015|publisher=Liverpool Echo|access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="pub900">{{cite web|title=JD Wetherspoon To Open 900th Pub Next Week|url=http://catererlicensee.com/jd-wetherspoon-to-open-900th-pub-next-week/|access-date=24 March 2014|archive-date=24 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324014945/http://catererlicensee.com/jd-wetherspoon-to-open-900th-pub-next-week/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The main station buildings at [[Aberystwyth railway station]] were converted to a Wetherspoons pub, Yr Hen Orsaf ''The Old Station'', and received a National Railway Heritage Award in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yr Hen Orsaf Aberystwyth |url=https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pub-histories/wales/ceredigion/yr-hen-orsaf-aberystwyth |website=J D Wetherspoon |access-date=20 July 2019 |ref=AYW-pub}}</ref>

The first Wetherspoons pub in [[Northern Ireland]] was The Spinning Mill in [[Ballymena]], [[County Antrim]], which opened in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.egi.co.uk/news/jd-wetherspoon-makes-northern-ireland-debut/?region=news-region-england-east-of-england|title=JD Wetherspoon makes Northern Ireland debut|date=14 August 2000|publisher=EG Radius|access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref> The first Wetherspoons pub in the [[Republic of Ireland]], The Three Tun Tavern, opened in [[Blackrock, Dublin|Blackrock]], [[County Dublin]], in 2014. Another opened in [[Cork (city)|Cork]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/wetherspoon-opens-in-blackrock-1559614-Jul2014/|title= Open for business: Wetherspoon's first Irish pub serves its first customers|date=8 July 2014|work= The Journal|access-date=8 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/agribusiness-and-food/guinness-pulled-from-menu-at-wetherspoon-s-blackrock-pub-1.1850415 | title = Guinness pulled from menu at Wetherspoon's Blackrock pub | newspaper = [[The Irish Times]] | date = 30 June 2014 |author = Ciarán Hancock }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.independent.ie/business/irish/video-first-look-inside-irelands-first-wetherspoon-pub-30415014.html|title=Video: First look inside Ireland's first Wetherspoon pub|work=Independent.ie|date=8 July 2014 |access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> The Three Tun Tavern closed in January 2022 after it was bought by a consortium of former and current Irish rugby players, including Rob Kearney and Jamie Heaslip.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Telford |first1=Thomas |title=Rob Kearney and Jamie Heaslip among rugby legends to buy southside Wetherspoons |url=https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-pubs-rob-kearney-jamie-22863972 |access-date=5 April 2022 |work=DublinLive |date=25 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

In 2014, Wetherspoons opened a pub at the [[Beaconsfield]] [[motorway service area]] on the M40. The move was criticised by road safety charities for potentially encouraging [[drink-driving]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/m40-wetherspoons-first-motorway-pub-sends-completely-wrong-message-on-drinkdriving-9073803.html|title=JD Wetherspoon opens first motorway pub|work=The Independent|date=21 January 2014|access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref>

Wetherspoons also operates a chain of hotels. In 2015, there were 34 hotels in England, Wales and Scotland, and also a pub and hotel in Camden Street, [[Dublin]], Ireland.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/jd-wetherspoon-to-open-hotel-bar-at-homeless-hostel-in-dublin-1.2038197|title=JD Wetherspoon to open hotel, bar at homeless hostel in Dublin|date=15 December 2014|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>

Every Wetherspoons in Great Britain was visited by Mags Thomson from 1994 to October 2015. She visited 972, which included 80 that had subsequently closed.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34440109|title=One woman's 21-year odyssey to visit every Wetherspoon's|date=31 October 2015|publisher=BBC News|access-date=29 April 2017}}</ref>

In 2018, the company announced plans to open a National JD Wetherspoon Museum in [[Wolverhampton]] in the West Midlands. The existing pub, The Moon Under Water on Lichfield Street, would be expanded to take in the whole former [[The Co-operative Group|Co-Op Department Store]], to include a hotel and gift shop.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/article/13594/National-museum-part-of-7m-city-Wetherspoon-plan|title=National museum part of £7m city Wetherspoon plan|publisher=wolverhampton.gov.uk|date=13 December 2018}}</ref> Plans were approved in April 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=Plans for Wetherspoon museum in Wolverhampton pub approved |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-52105768 |access-date=2 June 2021 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=1 April 2020}}</ref>

In 2022, the company announced it was selling 32 of its sites, including that at the Beaconsfield motorway service area.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-63067712 | title=Wetherspoon to sell Beaconsfield M40 services pub | date=28 September 2022 | publisher=BBC News |access-date=29 September 2022 }}</ref>

===Carpets===
Each Wetherspoons pub has one or more unique carpets, inspired by the pub's name, location and building.  They are made by [[Axminster Carpets]] and, sometimes having more than the usual six colours, have to be partially handmade on old fashioned looms, costing up to £30,000 – twice as much as stock designs.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Haynes |first=Gavin |date=2016-01-10 |title=The secret life of Wetherspoon's freaky carpets |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/jan/10/wetherspoons-carpet-tumblr-blog |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230516054922/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/jan/10/wetherspoons-carpet-tumblr-blog |archive-date= May 16, 2023 }}</ref> These have been the subject of a book, ''Spoons Carpets'', by Kit Caliss<ref name="sanderson">{{cite news |last1=Sanderson |first1=Caroline |title=Kit Caless: 'If I'd pitched the book from scratch, I'd have been laughed out of every publisher's office' |work= The Bookseller |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/profile/kit-caless-if-i-d-have-pitched-book-scratch-i-d-have-been-laughed-out-every-publisher-s |date=29 September 2016 | access-date=11 April 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411132550/https://www.thebookseller.com/profile/kit-caless-if-i-d-have-pitched-book-scratch-i-d-have-been-laughed-out-every-publisher-s |archive-date= 11 April 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Caless |first1=Kit |title=Spoon's carpets. An appreciation. |date=2016 |publisher=Square Peg |location=London |isbn=9781910931493}}</ref> and a colouring book, ''Colour Your Own Spoons Carpet''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hancock |first1=Louie |title=Colour Your Own Spoons Carpet: bumper uk edition. |date=2020 |publisher=Independent Publishing Network |location=[S.l.] |isbn=978-1838537524}}</ref>
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| Raymond Mays, Bourne
| alt1 = Racing car wheels in several red, yellow black and grey
| Moon & Spoon 20180307 151334 (49773407067).jpg
| Moon and Spoon, Slough
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| Talk of the Town, Paignton 20181204 103540 (49773051216).jpg
| Talk of the Town, Paignton
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| The Green Ginger 20181204 144339 (49772604293).jpg
| The Green Ginger, Torquay
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| The Imperial Hotel, Exeter 20181203 144924 (49772985781).jpg
| The Imperial Hotel, Exeter
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| The Isaac Merritt 20181204 100410 (49773365357).jpg
| The Isaac Merritt, Paignton
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| The Panniers, Barnstaple 20181207 122610 (49775628798).jpg
| The Panniers, Barnstaple
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| The Picture Playhouse, Bexhill (Dining2).jpg
| The Picture Playhouse, Bexhill
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| The Water Gate, Barnstaple
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| Wetherspoon carpet- Cambridge's The Regal.jpg
| The Regal, Cambridge
| alt10 = Pieces of 35 mm film, with sprocket holes and frames, some with spools at either end, and abstract shapes
| Wetherspoon carpet- Elephant and Castle.jpg
| Rockingham Arms, Elephant and Castle<!-- this carpet may no longer be there -->
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| Wetherspoon carpet- Windsor.jpg
| The King and Castle, Windsor
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| Wetherspoon's carpets- Midsummer Boulevard.jpg
| Wetherspoons, Milton Keynes <!-- yes, Weatherspoons is the name of the pub -->
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| Wetherspoon's carpets- Moon Under Water, Milton Keynes.jpg
| Moon Under Water, Milton Keynes
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