First glimpse at £5million ‘Super Spoons’ with its own HOTEL boasting 26 en-suite rooms & mammoth beer garden

HERE is the archetypal glimpse astatine a £5 cardinal 'super Spoons' with the bargain booze chain's archetypal edifice successful the North East boasting 26 en-suite rooms and a mammoth brew garden.

The Mile Castle successful Newcastle metropolis centre has had a large face-lift - with enactment besides being finalised connected the adjoining hotel.

The pub - which re-opened yesterday aft 13 weeks - has been refurbished passim with interior alterations creating caller areas crossed the three-storey abstraction including an hold to the third-floor barroom area.

There are besides upgraded room facilities, a caller gents toilet and longer bars.

Around 70 caller jobs person been created arsenic portion of the project.

The edifice itself volition diagnostic 26 en-suite rooms, arsenic good arsenic a brew plot connected a erstwhile car parkland down the pub.

Wetherspoons bought Gibb Chambers, a 19th period gathering connected Westgate Road, successful 2019, but the pub enlargement program was initially delayed by the pandemic.

The erstwhile location of Samuel Phillips Law Firm was primitively the infirmary of Dr CJ Gibb, who was made celebrated successful the Blaydon Races song.

The edifice is acceptable to unfastened successful November, with the improvement bringing the pub’s headcount to astir 200.

Pub manager Kris Lee said: "The £5m concern highlights Wetherspoon’s committedness to the pub, its unit and customers, arsenic good arsenic to Newcastle itself.

"We are delighted that we tin besides make 70 caller jobs for section people.

"The squad are looking guardant to welcoming customers backmost into The Mile Castle and we’re assured that they volition beryllium impressed by the new-look pub.

"We besides look guardant to the caller edifice opening connected November 12."

Wetherspoon has much than 800 pubs astir the UK, with astir 30 successful the North East.

Part of The Mile Castle pub volition beryllium converted into a nightclub with a unrecorded DJ astatine weekends.

The pub elephantine has owned and operated the pub itself for much than 15 years, having acquired and transformed the erstwhile Sports Cafe into 1 of the biggest pubs successful the city.

Wetherspoon laminitis and chairman Tim Martin said: “The concern highlights our committedness to the pub, its customers and staff, arsenic good arsenic the metropolis of Newcastle.

"The Mile Castle is an highly fashionable pub and we are assured that our customers volition invited the enactment being undertaken successful the pub arsenic good arsenic the instauration of our archetypal edifice successful the city.”

The pub relation won a bidding warfare with 30 different firms to get the Grade II listed Gibb Chambers successful 2018.

And the nearest Wetherspoon edifice astatine contiguous is successful Whitby, astatine The Angel Hotel, wherever prices commencement astatine £65 per night.

JD Wetherspoon opened its archetypal edifice successful 1998 in Shrewsbury and present has 67 astir the UK.

Spoons pubs are known for immoderate of their well-preserved humanities buildings and their affordable prices.

It comes arsenic boozer fans described 1 beachfront Wetherspoons as the "nicest" successful particular due to its "beautiful views".

Meanwhile, Sun Travel visited all three Wetherspoon pubs at London Gatwick Airport.

And this beachside Spoons has been described arsenic "the champion successful the country".