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Newport's Queen’s Hotel reborn as chain opens new pub

11:40am Friday 10th July 2009


THE FOURTH Wetherspoon chain pub in Newport is set to open next week, creating 70 new jobs.

The Queen’s Hotel will open on Friday, July 17, on the site of the disused Walkabout in Bridge Street which closed in April.

The pub chain has spent £900,000 redeveloping the site during a ten-week building project.

The 70 jobs are a mixture of full-time and part-time jobs in kitchen, bar, management and hotel positions.

Reverting to the original name of The Queen’s Hotel, the pub chain will also have a 29-bedroom hotel.

All of the bedrooms will be en-suite and on the second floor of the building.

The hotel part will also have five training rooms and a function room with its own bar.

The site will operate as a Lloyd’s No 1 bar, part of the Wetherspoon chain.

The pub will be open until midnight on Sunday through to Tuesday, till 2am on Wednesday and Thursday and till 3am on Friday and Saturday.

Manager Russell Sorrell said: “The Queen’s Hotel is a well known building and I believe that it will once again play an important part in Newport’s social scene.”

Wetherspoon has three other pubs in Newport; The Godfrey Morgan on Chepstow Road, The John Wallace Linton on Cambrian Road and The Tom Toya Lewis on Commercial Street.


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angryofcwmbran, Cwmbran says...
12:49pm Fri 10 Jul 09

You can't have enough pubs in Newport..or McDonalds for that matter.

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Owain Vaughan, Newport, Monmouthshire says...
1:38pm Fri 10 Jul 09

Don't be an imbecile. The Queen's Hotel is a historic inn. It is very good news that it is reopening as a bar/hotel.

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Stuck, In the mouth of madness says...
1:57pm Fri 10 Jul 09

this is great news, the 70 highly skilled and well paid workers laid off from Llanwern can now get jobs working here. I bet thats a weight off their minds. Our wonderful service economy provides again.

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bucks, says...
4:10pm Fri 10 Jul 09

Stuck wrote:
this is great news, the 70 highly skilled and well paid workers laid off from Llanwern can now get jobs working here. I bet thats a weight off their minds. Our wonderful service economy provides again.
I agree, they will probably feel as ill-suited to those jobs as the sausage-fingered ex-miners that now work in call-centres. At some point in the future we will all be working for Tesco's and socialising in Wetherspoons the only pub chain left.

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Strider, The Pride Lands says...
5:20pm Fri 10 Jul 09

This confirms the people off Newport have a Drinking problem as there's now more Wetherspoons in Newport than Cardiff..

No Vue Cinema or Debenhams or decent shops.. But they re-open three pubs..

I'm undecided who's the biggest idiot the person who though this is a good story or Newport Council

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mickey9, newport says...
6:46pm Fri 10 Jul 09

Why is it that there is such a pessimestic attitude to anything new here in newport?restoring the queens hotel can only be a good thing,it stops an historic building falling in to disrepair and being a target for the local arsonists as well as bringing many needed jobs to the area.The thing is with people these days is many think the world owes them a living and they won`t work unless the job is seen to be very well paid but also complain about the immigrants taking local jobs which are usually the ones that others won`t do.wetherspoons doesn`t play loud musicis a good place to meet and chat,the food is priced well.what do you people expect?

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Stuck, In the mouth of madness says...
7:11pm Fri 10 Jul 09

Ok the Queens is a nice building. But 70 jobs, c'mon thats a little high. For someone to expect to earn a decent living wage in order to support their family is reasonable. Where are the high skilled high wage jobs that are the cornerstone of more successful economies. You can buy a German car, a Japanese computer or a Italian washing machine, but you can get a job pulling pints in Wetherspoons in the UK. What hope is there for kids today. What can a careers adviser do? E.g Llanwerns well paid jobs have gone and replaced with low wage low skill employment. Call centres, pubs and pound shops are not going to help this country. Not that I got anything against those who work in these places, after all a job is a job. But did they lay awake at night dreaming of working in a pub when they were kids or did they dream of highly skilled jobs and all the things that come with that. The rise of Wetherspoons is a sign of the decline of the UK. More souless pubs, selling cheap food and drink is mirrored by unique pubs going bust and decent eataries struggling. Wetherspoons are McDonalds of the pub world.

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Strider, The Pride Lands says...
7:45pm Fri 10 Jul 09

It's a Lloyd’s No 1 bar, not Wetherspoons. It does play loud music and has pricier drinks.. Besides all the local pond life who inhabit Newport on the weekend will probally have the windows put through within a week

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angryofcwmbran, Cwmbran says...
9:26pm Fri 10 Jul 09

Owain Vaughan wrote:
Don't be an imbecile. The Queen's Hotel is a historic inn. It is very good news that it is reopening as a bar/hotel.
Whats 'historic' about it?, other than the fact that it survived the 60's bulldozing fad. C'mon know-all.

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The Avon Lady, High Cross says...
6:02am Sat 11 Jul 09

The point of this is,70 jobs for a town dying on its feet.yes it is a lot of jobs which the towns economy needs.The Queens Hotel back in the 80's was a thriving business and played a part in the towns make up and it was a great place to work and i am saying that from experience.Does it matter who owns it as long as we have a boost to Newport's dying economy

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rugbyman, newport says...
11:30am Sat 11 Jul 09

The Avon Lady wrote:
The point of this is,70 jobs for a town dying on its feet.yes it is a lot of jobs which the towns economy needs.The Queens Hotel back in the 80's was a thriving business and played a part in the towns make up and it was a great place to work and i am saying that from experience.Does it matter who owns it as long as we have a boost to Newport's dying economy
Quite right,i'd rather have an extra 70 jobs, than lose 70

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Stuck, In the mouth of madness says...
11:54am Sat 11 Jul 09

Its not an extra 70 jobs as Llanwern lost 70 jobs the same week. So the gross jobs total stays the same. But the quality of job is different. These are "Mcjobs" for a low rent town. It is a plaster on a gaping sore. It is sad when peoples aspirations wither and die.

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ianzemma, newport says...
7:44am Mon 13 Jul 09

wasn't this already a hotel when it was walkabout?...i'm sure it was..as well as a bar,the entrance was on the side of the building.

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Gareth, Newport says...
9:14am Mon 13 Jul 09

Yet again, the complainers are out in force.

If you don't like the place, then don't go in there.

If you don't like the wages, then don't work there.

if you want more money, get a better paid job.

if you're not qualified for it, get trained.

if you can't get trained, then work for yourself.

i know it is far easier to complain about others than take responsibility for your own life, but if we all did that, we'd still be living in caves.

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County, Newport says...
1:55pm Fri 17 Jul 09

Ah the whingers are out in force as usual, they'd have been moaning if the building had been demolished too. Ill-informed too, there are 6 or 7 'spoons in Cardiff.

This is a pub/nightclub/hotel and it shows Sky Sports, the first of it's kind for Wetherspoon and very much a flagship pub for the chain.

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County, Newport says...
1:57pm Fri 17 Jul 09

You talk about ex-steel workers but it's our school and university leavers and current students that are suffering the most due to the recession and they will benefit greatly from this.

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REFURB: The Queen's Hotel in Newport One of the 29 rooms

REFURB: The Queen's Hotel in Newport

One of the 29 rooms





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