The White Hart, Todmorden

This is a fairly attractive Wetherspoons, a complete contrast to its older stock of converted shops. It has the pub name in mosaic tiles on the floor in the entrance porch, which presumably predates its time as a Wetherspoons. Inside will be more familiar to the regular Spoons customer with the bar right in front of you as you enter and a couple of sections off to the left which presumably were separate rooms at one point. Despite being opened out, they still retain the feel of being distinctly separate areas. Going against everything we know about Spoons pubs, the bogs are on the ground floor (amazing!) and there is apparently a separate bar upstairs, though not investigated by myself (no need to, with the toilets being downstairs). The pub was pretty full yet strangely quiet in the afternoon towards the end of the lunch trade, which felt a bit weird. It took a couple of minutes to get served as both members of staff were helping a customer who was ordering food, but that gave me time to peruse the ale choice. There are ten hand pulls split across two banks of five, the left hand one had most of the guests and the one to the right had the usual Spoons selection (Ruddles et al) plus a guest or two (I recall seeing Pendle Witches Brew by Moorhouse's over that side). I had the Hop Black by Wibblers, a Cascadian Dark Ale and only £1.08 for a half. The carpet looked a bit worn and tired in places but otherwise the décor was reasonable and in good order. A couple of games machines were over to the left of the bar between the two separate sections. Mainly standard tables and chairs but I did notice some booth seating in the room to the rear. Not bad at all.

An extremely comfortable Wetherspoon's on two levels, in a nicely-restored old building with lots of wood panelling and various nooks and crannies. The main bar at street level features a particularly good range of local ales, outnumbering the national usuals. Upstairs there is another smaller bar, but not open all hours, with its own entrance just across the road from the station. There is also a roadside courtyard area up here. Usual facilities but has a general feel of being well looked after. One of the better small town 'Spoon's.

This is an original 1930s pub a few yards down the hill from the station. The conversion by Wetherspoons seems to have retained a lot of the original pub. I didn't venture upstairs but the ground floor bar is quite small for a Spoons and has tall tables and chairs but with lower seating and some booths over to the left. Sadly there was a cellar problem while I was there that meant that the lines couldn't be cleaned to put new beers on so there was just Robinsons Trooper & Wizard and Marstons Wainwright. I went for the recently watered down Trooper which was in decent nick. Despite the cellar problem this seemed to be a good Spoons.