This advert appeared 35 years ago in the November 1989 edition of the London Drinker the CAMRA London magazine, which remains in publication in 2025.
The ad is a reminder not only of beer prices 36 years ago and the beers Spoons sold then but also that the pub estate was confined to North, North-East and North-West London in those days. Today there are around 800 Wetherspoons pubs across the country and Ireland. Whether or not you think this is North London’s gift to the nation will no doubt, as Tim Martin does, divide opinion.
There was of course also ‘wine for the ladies’ at 75p a glass
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