Tim Bobbin, Urmston

This is a typical Wetherspoon's pub, with a modern look and layout in a building that used to be I believe the gas board showrooms. It has a steady daytime trade and can be extremely busy on Friday and Saturday nights. Earlier in the day, and earlier in the week, it is a quiet and civilised place. It’s fully accessible, as the many mobility scooters testify.

The beers range across all strengths, colours and flavours, with perhaps a predominance of strong pale ales. Customers' suggestions strongly influence the beer ordering. The cider on offer is very much the major brands with only one on draft (keg)and the remainder in bottles, none of which fulfil the criteria for Camra’s real cider.

Although the pub is essentially one large room, it is broken up into separate areas by the entrance aisle and by raised flooring at the front. Looking up there is an elaborate ventilation system which may have been mainly hidden behind a false ceiling.

There is an unheated smoking area to the side of the building and a fenced off pavement space at the front for outdoor drinking.

Food is much what you would expect in a Wetherspoon's pub, but there are often some good value special days such as Tuesday steak day and Thursday curry day.

Although the pub opens at 8am every day no alcohol is served before 9am.