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FLAGGING THE BRAVERY OF TIM TO TAKE HIS PLACE ALONGSIDE TOP CHEFS
Dear editor

POLISH AND CZECH PILOTS

Dear editor
A request, if I may… my wife has had the opportunity, through
corporate links, to be fed by Rick Stein and, recently, Tom Kerridge.
We have their signed menus on the wall in the kitchen.
However, we both also enjoy the dining experience at our local
Wetherspoon – The Posset Cup (Portishead) and thought to
Reading the spring edition
of Wetherspoon News, add to our collection a signed ‘Spoons’ menu. We eat more regularly
I see you featured ‘Heroic there, owing to the more affordable offering you provide!
Polish RAF pilots honoured I wondered whether Mr Martin might have the time to sign the front
at landmark pub’. cover of the new cardboard Wetherspoon food menu (which does look
Would you consider updating and feel very smart indeed). I would frame and add said menu to our
the local history on display in wall of famous gastro experiences.
The Iron Duke (Wellington, I hope that you may be able to fulfil this request – which I hope
Somerset) to inform visitors does not seem too odd. In anticipation of a positive response and
of the role played, at the thank you for your attention in this matter.
local RAF Culmhead airfield Best regards
on the Blackdown Hills,
Mr Julian Cornwell, Portishead, Bristol
by RAF No.2 Polish Wing and
RAF Czech Wing? Tim replies: Not everyone puts me in the same bracket as Rick Stein and
The Poles were resident Tom Kerridge. However, on further analysis of your letter, I feel that a Michelin
during 1941–42 and the star for Wetherspoon is long overdue. I will arrange for a signed copy of the
Czechs during 1942–43. menu, on the basis that it may help our quest for due recognition.

PLEASE WILL YOU FILL THIS

These exiled airmen,
far from home, helped to
defend the local area.
Three are buried locally.
Mr Chris Penney, via e-mail
Tim replies: Happy to oblige. Not only did the incredibly brave
Polish and Czech airmen defend the local area, but they played
an important role in defending the free world.
PUDDING-SHAPED HOLE?
Dear editor
As a happy customer (also including my wife), visiting lots of your pubs in

HARROGATE BRASS BAND

Kent over a long period and enjoying greatly your excellent range of ales and
wines and great food – we are missing the steak & kidney pudding… which
is no longer served.
We beg beg beg – please, at some stage, reinstate this most English dish.

–A BLAST FROM THE PAST Yours faithfully

Henry and Claire May, Dover, Kent
Tim replies: I am pleased to announce officially the return of
the steak & kidney pudding, from October, to Wetherspoon’s pubs…
Remember – you read it here first.

THANK YOU FOR SAVING

Dear editor
I think you may like this photograph taken in The Winter Gardens
(Harrogate). My wife’s granddad is in it (first on the right).
Mr Dennis Swales, via e-mail
Tim replies: As the famous writer LP Hartley said in The Go-Between:
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
This photograph is a fascinating insight into the past. It must
be very nostalgic for your family. It would be great if we could
display the photograph in The Winter Gardens.
Many thanks for the information.
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TIGER FROM EXTINCTION
Dear Tim
I am writing to you regarding The Royal Tiger, in Wednesfield.
As a Wednesfield resident for 50 years, I would like to thank you for saving my
local pub and for doing such a wonderful job of its refurbishment.
It has great staff, a warm welcome and beer at the price it should be.
Many pubs in Wolverhampton have been closed down, but The Royal Tiger
has survived, thanks to Wetherspoon.
Yours gratefully
Mr D Nicholls, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton
Tim replies: “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
OK, so William Blake wasn’t talking about The Tiger in Wednesfield,
but it made an emotional connection with me.
Many thanks indeed for your comments.