The Time Piece, Dewsbury

Standard 'spoons interior in a slightly cramped layout with a small and unobvious mezzanine along the frontage that I only discovered at the end of my brief visit. Raised patio terrace to the rear. Good selection from ten handpumps, with three from Rudgate including Ale Storm (£1.90).

The Time Piece is a Wetherspoons pub that is situated in the middle of Dewsbury,which seems to be very thin on the ground for pubs. Once inside i had a drink in the ground level room,this room was smallish for a Spoons,it is oblong shaped with the bar on the right side,there are normal tables and chairs to the front and a raised area to the left,the bar area had a mix of tall tables and chairs and normal ones. There are 10 pumps on the bar,i had a drink of Acorn Winter pale Ale which went down well,the other beers i noted were Acorn Gorklova,Caledonian Great Scot,Hobgoblin and the Spoons usual beers,Abbot and Ruddles best. The pub was very busy on my morning visit which is no surprise with Dewsbury having a shortage of pubs in its town centre. Pub visited 24/1/2015

Despite being housed over 2 floors, this is a fairly small and quite typical Wetherspoons in what was previously a jewellers and before that, a watchmakers, hence the pub name. The main downstairs bar is a bit ‘Spoons by numbers and feels quite cramped with seating at a premium despite my visit being during what I would consider to have been a quiet early evening period. An open staircase leads up to a small strip of additional seating along the width of the pub’s frontage. Note also the cleverly designed space saving drinking ledge at the foot of the stairs, far more practical than the rather inaccessible bookcases and drawers that you pass on the way up! The pub frontage has fully opening continental style doors although it opens up onto a main road and there is a small enclosed garden at the rear. Of the 10 pumps, 5 were the standard ‘Spoons offerings whilst 3 were guests (+2 “available soons”).and whilst I didn’t note the names, they appeared to be mainly showcase local ales. It’s certainly not a bad Wetherspoons and the barman was friendly and chatty but it does suffer from having a bit of a seen one, seen all feel to it.