Sir Tim Martin: ‘I named Wetherspoons after my physics teacher’
The Wetherspoons founder talks about his childhood spent on the move and the surprising inspiration behind the name of his chain of pubs
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The Wetherspoons founder talks about his childhood spent on the move and the surprising inspiration behind the name of his chain of pubs
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