Its 45 years since the first Wetherspoons pub opened, in Colney Hatch Lane, Muswell Hill.
It opened early in 1979 and the picture above is from the first ever issue of CAMRA London’s London Drinker magazine (itself marking its 45th birthday).
The pub was originally owned by Andrew Marler but before the end of the year it had been taken over by Tim Martin.
I lived 15 minutes or so walk from the pub then and visited at weekends.
The range of cask beer may seem fairly run of the mill- Rayments was part of Greene King, and Devenish was a Weymouth brewer. However in the period before the Beer Orders finding such beers in London was highly unusual
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