The Gary Cooper (JD Wetherspoon), Dunstable

This place is definitely not one for the lover of old pub interiors. The building itself newly built in 2008 is picturesquely positioned opposite a massive ASDA supermarket and looks more like an out of town branch of B&Q or PC World than a pub. Inside it's a large single room which at least isn't dark as there are ceiling to floor glass windows all around. If you move around the bar to the right as you enter there is a staircase inevitably leading to the toilets. At the base of this staircase there is a sculpture of a cowboy character astride a horse which I assume is supposed to represent Gary Cooper an actor with very tenuous links to the town. The bar has two banks of five hand pumps On my visit these had the two GK beers, Doom Bore, Broadside, Elgood's Cambridge IPA, Vale Red Kite & Gravitas, Wold Top Wold Gold, Stonehenge Pigswill and Red Squirrel Hopfest. I went for the Elgood's Cambridge IPA (£2.20) which was in good nick but quite a boring pint which made me wish I had gone for the Wold Top beer. This place is GBG 2015 listed but is also a Lloyds No 1 according to the Spoons web site but that also says that they close at 23:00 daily. All the branding is Wetherspoon so maybe they wanted a Lloyds but couldn't get the late licence. It had a full selection of beers with Locale options so gets my vote despite the hideous structure and location.