The Waggon - Taunton

03/11/2026

Win some tickets. We’re gearing up to take the show on the road as Official Spirit Partner for the Ideal Homeshow Christmas Show. Olympia London, jump on a Berrys coach and it’s just a 10 min walk away.

🎄🚂 IT’S CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎁🎟️

WIN 1 OF 5 PAIRS OF TICKETS TO THE IDEAL HOME SHOW CHRISTMAS 2026! 🎅✨

We’re bringing a little Mainline Christmas magic to Olympia London this November, and to celebrate, we’re giving 5 lucky winners a pair of tickets each! 🥂

Fancy a festive day out packed with Christmas shopping, inspiration, delicious treats and plenty of Christmas spirit?

🎁 HERE’S HOW TO ENTER:

❤️ FOLLOW Mainline Spirit Co. and Ideal Home Show The Ideal Christmas Show

💬 COMMENT below and tag the person you’d love to take with you!

👍 Love what we’re doing? Give this post a LIKE and SHARE to spread the Christmas cheer!

🎟️ 5 WINNERS. 5 PAIRS OF TICKETS. 10 CHANCES TO GET FESTIVE!

📍 Olympia London

📅 25–29 November 2026

⏰ ENTRIES CLOSE MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER AT 11:59PM!

Winners will be selected at random and announced on Tuesday 10 November.

🚂 Don’t forget to come and find Mainline Spirit Co. at the show, where we’ll be serving up festive cheer and hosting our Christmas cocktail-making workshops! 🍸

GOOD LUCK & ALL ABOARD! 🎄🚂🥂

UK entrants aged 18+ only. One entry per person. Five winners will each receive two general admission tickets to Ideal Home Show Christmas 2026. Travel, accommodation and cocktail workshops are not included. Winners will be contacted directly by Mainline Spirit Co. No purchase necessary. This promotion is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by Facebook or Instagram.

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13/10/2026

Looking for something fun to do with the kids this Halloween? Look no further…… our biggest kid behind the bar Taylor will be hosting a children’s party with lots of fun and games

01/10/2026

💚☕ £337 RAISED FOR MACMILLAN! ☕💚

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who came along to our Macmillan Coffee Morning, bought cake, bought raffle tickets, donated, bought plants and generally helped us turn coffee and excessive amounts of cake into £337 for Macmillan Cancer Support. 💚 We will top up the total to £500 with a little help from The Waggon Fund.

A very special thank you has to go to Sue from Leonard Houlden Court and Cory Road next door, who did a huge amount of the organising, supplied the beautiful plants and generally made the whole thing happen. 🌱💚

Thank you as well to everyone who baked, donated prizes, helped out and supported the morning.

We genuinely couldn’t have done it without you all.

And somehow we managed to hold an event at The Waggon where people left more sober than when they arrived.

Frankly, we’re as surprised as anyone. 😂☕🍰

£337 for a bloody good cause. Thank you! 💚

24/09/2026

🌟 Calling all generous hearts! 💖 We're gearing up for the Macmillan Coffee event Tuesday 29th sept, and we need your help to make it even more special!
Do you have any raffle prizes or bric-a-brac items you could donate? Every little bit helps us raise funds for an amazing cause! 🎟️✨ Whether it's a handmade gift, a fun item, or something unique, your contribution will make a difference please drop it to the pub,We will have some fabulous homebaked goods from our neighbours Leonard Houlden Court and Cory Road
Join us in supporting those in need! Together, we can create a memorable event filled with love and community spirit.

23/09/2026

Right then. One final word from us. 🍺

Yesterday’s post has now had over 3,000 people actively engage with it — not just see it, actually engage with it. Most of which we have not seen in the pub.

So here’s a slightly uncomfortable bit of pub maths.

If those 3,000 people came into The Waggon once a month and bought one £4 pint, that’s £12,000 through the till.

That would roughly pay our rent, electricity, gas and water, cleaning costs, WiFi etc for an entire month or our wage bill for the month.

Every. Single. Month.

That is the f^*$ing reality facing pubs.

Likes don’t pay the electricity bill. Comments don’t pay the rent. Arguments on Facebook don’t keep the cellar cold or the lights on.

Customers do.

We’ve hosted and welcomed all sorts of groups and organisations over the years, including events involving local government and different political parties. Hosting people in our pub does not mean we endorse their politics. It means we run a pub.

The Waggon remains politically independent. Our doors are open to people with different opinions, provided they behave themselves and show the same respect to everybody else.

And we’ll be equally clear about this:

Anyone — from any side, with any political opinion — who comes to our door looking for trouble will be asked to leave. End of.

You can agree with Reform. You can disagree with Reform. You can think politics has no place in a pub at all. Those are your views and you’re entitled to them.

But we’re not turning The Waggon into a political battleground.

We’re trying to keep a community pub open.

So perhaps the most useful action anyone can take to support their local pub isn’t another 300-word Facebook comment.

Come in. Buy a pint. Have a chat.

You don’t even have to agree with the person sitting next to you.

That’s rather the point of a pub is it not? 🥃

22/09/2026

Just a quick note from us at The Waggon 🍻

We’ve been approached by Reform UK to use the pub for an informal get-together and chat.

We’re happy for the pub to be a place where people can meet, talk and exchange views — but we want to make one thing absolutely clear:

The Waggon does not endorse, support or represent Reform UK, or any other political party.

We are politically independent and have no affiliation with any political organisation. Allowing a group to use the pub should not be taken as an endorsement of their views or policies.

Our job is fairly simple: provide a decent pub, keep the b**r flowing, and give people somewhere to meet. 🍺

As always, everyone is welcome at The Waggon, whatever your politics — just be respectful of each other.

21/09/2026

We would like to wish Roxy all the best in her new career, and thank you for all your hard work. We will certainly miss your infectious laughter
Additionally, we would like to inform our customers that we are currently reviewing our kitchen operating hours. We will share an update regarding any changes to our schedule shortly. Thank you for your continued support and understanding.

16/09/2026

🎃 HALLOWEEN HOUSE OF HORRORS 💀

We’ve been looking around The Waggon and thought…

“You know what this place needs? More skeletons.”

So on Saturday 31st October, we’re decorating the absolute s**t out of the pub and making some very poor decisions. 👻

£10 gets you:
🌭 Help-yourself Hot Dog Bar
🌶️ Chilli Bowls
🍹 A Halloween drink
🎃 Entry to whatever the hell this turns into

There’ll be spooky cocktails, shots, dancing and a £20 bar tab for the best fancy dress.

And when we say fancy dress, we mean fancy dress.

Not your normal clothes with a bit of fake blood on your face.

That’s not a costume, Gary. That’s just Tuesday.

🎟️ TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM THE BAR NOW
📅 Saturday 31st October
⏰ 7pm ’til late

Tickets are limited because apparently there’s a maximum number of people we’re legally allowed to trap inside a haunted pub.

Eat. Drink. Dance. Scream. Repeat. 💀🍺🎃

14/09/2026

🍺🥨 WAGTOBERFEST! 🥨🍺

We’ve decided that drinking b**r normally simply isn’t enough anymore.

So on Saturday 17th October from 6pm, we’re putting it in massive glasses, adding sausages and pretending we’re German. 🇩🇪

Expect b**r steins, bratwurst, pretzels, games and several people discovering that lederhosen are considerably less flattering than they imagined.

Speaking of which…

DRESS YOUR FINEST LEDERHOSEN.

Got none? Improvise.
Got some? We have questions.

There will be b**r.
There will be sausages.
There will probably be shouting.

And at some point somebody will say “PROST!” with far too much confidence after three pints.

📅 Saturday 17th October
⏰ 6pm onwards
📍 The Waggon

🍺 WAGTOBERFEST — because apparently we needed another excuse.

07/09/2026

☕️🍰 MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING AT THE WAGGON 💚

On Tuesday 29th September, 11am–1pm, we’re swapping pints for cuppas (temporarily, don’t panic) and raising some money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

There’ll be cakes, plants, bits to buy and plenty more — all for a bloody good cause.

Come down, have a coffee, eat an entirely unreasonable amount of cake and help us raise as much as we can. 💚

And if anyone fancies baking something or donating something for us to sell, give us a shout — the more the merrier.

📅 Tuesday 29th September
⏰ 11am–1pm
📍 The Waggon

Calories consumed for charity don’t count. We’re fairly sure that’s official. 🍰☕️