J D Wetherspoon plc (commonly referred to as Wetherspoons, Spoonies or Spoons)'s a British pub chain based in Watford. It's listed on the London Stock Exchange and's a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Wetherspoon's owns the largest pub in the UK, The Regal in Cambridge. History The Company was founded in 1979 by Tim Martin who opened his first Wetherspoons pub, 'Marler's Bar', at Colney Hatch Lane in London. Many of the other early Wetherspoons pubs were also in the same part of Haringey. Mar… (More on Wetherspoons)