Last Post (JD Wetherspoon), Southend-On-Sea

A jumbo old skool (1994) Spoons housed in a an attractive converted Post Office with two entrances at either end, two separate areas and two separate bars – most of Roger’s description from 2008 still holds. It was rammed and I literally got the last table available. A glimmer of joy at the bar as the Manager’s Special proclaimed that all cask ales were £1.49 which took my pint down to a quid with a Timbo Token; the reduction made sense, as little cask was shifting here in the heat (and it showed, my Hanlons Stormstay was NBSS 2). As Aqualung correctly predicted many years ago, it is indeed horrendous on fine sunny days. 6.5