Anything's possible, but if it's any sort of backbox, there has to be some reason why the original holes in the faceplate were not used to attach it.
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I would guess there was a back box in an ordinary plastered wall, then in typical Wetherspoon fashion it was decided the place had to have wooden cladding stuff they insist on.
This would explain why the socket is not centre of the wooden panelling - the socket was there first.
Naturally the carpenter hasn't time to cut a neat hole the same size as the back box - and naturally he won't have any long 3.5mm machine screws - but he has drill bits, and can just about get some woodscrews through the socket and into the excess wood that he idn't have time to trim.
This would explain why the socket is not centre of the wooden panelling - the socket was there first.
Naturally the carpenter hasn't time to cut a neat hole the same size as the back box - and naturally he won't have any long 3.5mm machine screws - but he has drill bits, and can just about get some woodscrews through the socket and into the excess wood that he idn't have time to trim.
All perfectly credible speculation ... but, nevertheless, speculation
... although, on reflection, the screws can't really be going into "excess wood that he didn't have time to trim" - since, if he'd 'trimmed' more than a fraction further, there wood have been a visible gap between the wood and the faceplate!
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