The Wilfred Owen (JD Wetherspoon), Oswestry

Dull-looking place, formerly the Royal Mail sorting office, but it does benefit from having quite a high ceiling (albeit above the industrial ventilation network). Modest, duplicated selection from the two banks of five handpumps, with just Exmoor Beast and the beer festival Germain hazy lager from Brouwerij De Bock (£2.41) available in addition to the regular Greene King IPA, Doom Bar and Abbot.

Official site of The Wilfred Owen (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Official site of The Wilfred Owen (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Not the most attractive building for a Spoons. It resembles an office block. We called in for breakfast which was fine. I did notice a few guests alongside the regular ales including Woods Take 5 and Cotleigh Old Buzzard.

I think this one must have upped its game since previous reviews as I found it to be a decent Spoons. What Pub confirms my suspicion that it was once the sorting office for the Post Office next door. That largely goes to explain why it's not the best of buildings. It's a dull rectangular room with the bar on the left and a raised area to the right overlooking a patio. Unusually the only tall tables and chairs were by the windows. The furnishings looked fairly typical to me. The bar has ten hand pumps which had one unused, only Salopian Shropshire Gold doubled up, no available soon and despite the cider festival still running, no spurious cider clips. Other beers were the JDW Trio Of Doom minus the Abbot, Weetwood Oast House, Hobgoblin Gold, Banks's Alpha 5 Pale Ale, Rooster's Cream and Evan Evan's / Archer's Pale. I was here in the morning so had time for breakfast and a couple of pints all of which were good. I went for the Weetwood beer (£2.19) and the Archer's (£1.99). Although the menu stated that the standard guest price here was £2.15 it seemed to be £1.99. Apart from the dull building which I'm not that fussed about anyway I found this to be a decent Spoons.