Waterend Barn (JD Wetherspoon), St Albans Central, St. Albans

The main bar is a barn of a place, as the name would suggest. I've been here a couple of times in Winter when they've been trying to heat the place up with real fires only to fill the room with smoke. Away from the main bar there are a couple of smaller areas with comfortable seating and I believe, thankfully, where the kids are confined to. There are a couple of plasma screens on mute and no piped music. By some Wetherspoons standards they don't have a big range of beers, today it's three plus Pedigree. A rather annoying thing about this place is that although the three real ale pumps are located at one end of the bar the only real chance you have of getting served is to go to the other end where the bar person's 'personal till' is and order there. Not only that but they demand you pay up front, before deigning to saunter down the other end to get the beer.

2 former listed barns from 1610 were dismantled and re-erected in the middle of St Albans in 1938. It was a restarant, but is now a Lloyds bar (Wetherspoons) The decor and features are breath-taking, plus plenty of sofas, alcoves and roaring fireplaces Ruddles Best Abbot Ale Daleside Morocco Ale Davenport's Last Minute Lager Well's Banana Bread Beer 18 Christmas Ales are lined up for the holidays on rotation :)

A Lloyds No1 Bar in the Wetherspoon stable