The Holland Tringham (JD Wetherspoon), Streatham, SW16

A decent enough Wetherspoon pub but too many beers coming soon for my liking.Nice to see an outside area at the rear.Tried the latest American collab from Bells /Wadsworth which was in good condition but rather dull.

Holland Tringham, who he? Apparently he was an artist (no, not someone who downs pint after pint of Abbot Reserve!) who did sketches of Streatham Village some of which can be seen on the walls here. As noted below this place has an odd layout with a typical shop conversion style of room as you enter followed by some steps leading to the smaller area where the bar is plus what seemed to be a proper garden, if I could only have got a decent view of it through the pouring rain. It's hard to say what the original use of this building was. The meat Raffle advertised at the bar is something I haven't seen in decades. There are twelve pumps but they were not used to their full potential as there were four devoted to the two GK regulars, one unused, two beers and one cider available soon, Reigate Pilgrim's Progress, Ascot Posh Pooch, a cider and Burton Bridge Battle Of Burton Bridge. I went for the Burton Bridge (£2.15) which wasn't clear but tasted OK.

The Holland Tringham is pretty much a standard Wetherspoons except that there are some steps in the centre of the pub that lead down to the bar at the rear. Seating faces the bar and at street level at the front of the pub there is more seating. Booths are found along the right hand wall and there is a beer garden full of bushes out the back. I counted twelve hand pumps that were drawing a mix of guest and the usual Spoons’ beers although three hand pumps were tagged ‘available soon’. Cheap food is available and I found the staff to be efficient. I wouldn’t go out of my way to visit here again.

This is a standard ‘spoons high street conversion. The bar counter is at the far end of the room, which is divided by a few steps down surrounded by some pine coloured balustrade. There are a few booths on the right, but otherwise it’s just like every other Wetherspoons that you’ve been in. It did have a “kid’s corner”, where the kids’ doodlings were pinned on the wall. Not a pub to seek out by any means, but, like all ‘spoons, it provides decent drink at reasonable prices.

A fairly standard issue Wetherspoons, looks like a shop conversion, but unusually on two levels with the main bar area being down a flight of some seven steps from the entrance level. There is thankfully a platform lift for the benefit of disabled customers. The usual range of seating with some high tables, but also a series of small booth-like compartments along the side wall. Twelve handpumps but as well as the usual staples a fair number "coming soon" so just the three guest ales. My pint of Elgood's Golden Newt was spot on. The pub was showing the FA Cup final with the volume up and was pretty busy as a result. Holland Tringham was a Victorian artist and illustrator who lived in Streatham for a while. A number of prints of his work are displayed in the pub including a drawing of the nearby Greyhound pub when it was a Barclay Perkins house. The pub has an unusually attractive (for a 'spoons that is) rear secluded garden. Also unusual I thought is that the pub has a weekly meat raffle, something I haven't seen for a good while.

A descent sized Wetherspoon's on two levels and is quite bright compared to some of their pubs. A fair selection of real ales and a small outside seating out the back.

Official page of the Holland Tringham - www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk