The Foxley Hatch, Purley

Apparently this branch of Wetherspoon's is on the company's disposal list. According to the local press, it has an alcohol license from 8am. So, I set off early to make this my first stop, but lo and behold, they don't serve alcohol until 9am. I had to content myself with a breakfast whilst clock watching. When I'd strolled in, I'd wondered why there were no other customers. I think it's the first time I've managed to be the first customer through the door in a 'spoon's. When 9am finally came around, the beer choice was the usual Greene King Abbot, Ruddles Best & Sharp's Doom Bar, alongside 3 guest beers - Vale Black Beauty Porter, Twickenham Spring Ale & Elgood's Cambridge Gold. The app proclaimed that a Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon cider was also hiding away somewhere. My Black Beauty was a bit heavy for that early in the morning, but did at least have a coffee taste to it. A few other customers sauntered in after me, including a dad and his daughter. The daughter wanted the children's pancakes for breakfast, but apparently they had removed them from the menu a day or two before. Was this a sign that the branch will close shortly? The L-shaped room is quite small for a Wetherspoon's. TVs were showing snooker highlights, whilst there are some fruit machines which were also switched on at 9am (apparently no enjoyment is allowed before this time).

A rather small Wetherspoons, on the edge of the Purley Cross one way system. The L-shaped room is in usual drawing room style, with its size giving more of a local pub feel than usual. Otherwise not much of note. Draught beers at time of visit included Exmoor Gold, Ascot Gold Cup and Shepherd Neame Bishops Finger as well as the regulars.