tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post3064336430452766032..comments2024-03-29T08:01:51.705+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: The heyday of pubsCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-9483719497549447302010-09-26T23:22:38.610+01:002010-09-26T23:22:38.610+01:00The thing is, you can still come across pubs where...The thing is, you can still come across pubs where it does pretty much work like it used to (apart from the smoking), but they are few and far between, and it's difficult to define what the magic ingredient is. It's certainly not something that can easily be bottled and transplanted elsewhere. See <a href="http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/busy-tied-houses.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a> by Tandleman, referring to an area where the pub trade in general has been really suffering.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-79416535172993547892010-09-26T22:52:52.770+01:002010-09-26T22:52:52.770+01:00One of your best, PC, exceptional.
I lived in two...One of your best, PC, exceptional.<br /><br />I lived in two pubs from 1981 to 1992 and ours were deliberately targeted at 'locals'. Both incredibly successful, the archetypal places where 'everybody knows your name'. Saturday afternoons would find you struggling for somewhere to <i>stand</i> let alone sit. Food was served weekdays only between 12 and 2 as it was the only non-busy time. <br /><br />I walked past my local tonight (haven't been in it for a couple of years) and saw through the large glass windows just two people there, playing a fruit machine. It's been there since 1929 and isn't long for this world seeing as it is on a very lare piece of prime London suburb land. It had always been a drinkers' pub amongst a huge catchment area of working/middle class residential households. It does food now and has even invested in a garden for kids but nothing is working. The Co Op next door does a roaring trade though.<br /><br />Very sad, but pub organisations brought in on themselves it has to be said.<br /><br />I still miss the old 'local' experience, but less and less with every passing week. My local is now Sainsbury's or Tesco and my home. <br /><br />It's all very reminiscent of football in the late 80s but with no Premier League to reinvigorate interest. <br /><br />:(Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-11722880936872582902010-09-26T20:23:33.407+01:002010-09-26T20:23:33.407+01:001979 was the all-time peak of British beer product...1979 was the all-time peak of British beer production - 40.5 million bulk barrels. In 1959 it was only 23.4 million. During the 60s and 70s the brewers invested a lot of money both in improving their pubs and promoting their brands, They successfully made beer drinking and pubgoing seem modern and aspirational, not just something done by old working-class blokes.<br /><br />Nowadays, you very rarely see any beer advertising on TV specifically alluding to a pub situation, which was commonplace in the 1970s. Possibly this is a consequence of divorcing brewing and pub ownership.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-23666546136878081512010-09-26T20:08:25.503+01:002010-09-26T20:08:25.503+01:00The pubs do indeed have a problem
with bans,superm...The pubs do indeed have a problem<br />with bans,supermarkets etc but by<br />a long way the biggest drawback is<br />the miserable freaks that still <br />frequent them.<br />I popped into the Village of the Damned(Mossley) last week,you<br />would have thought the Black Death had made a comeback unless CAMRA<br />were having a Christopher Lee<br />festival.<br /><br />The Pennine SpiritAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-67142992471031108482010-09-26T20:05:29.387+01:002010-09-26T20:05:29.387+01:00The brainwashed are waiting for the 5 minutes of f...The brainwashed are waiting for the 5 minutes of fame before they die.<br />We used to enjoy life and took it as it came.<br />We are well and trully f****d.<br />The brainwashed generation, here they come.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-70514543115287410502010-09-26T19:44:29.688+01:002010-09-26T19:44:29.688+01:00The 70's was my first decade in pubs and a tru...The 70's was my first decade in pubs and a truly wonderful time is was to.<br />Now that you have mentioned it I never see a full pub any more and often when I walk in the pubs are empty with ALL people out the front or back smoking and chatting.<br />With the changing weather these people won't be bothering at all for the next few months. Not so sure I will be either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-21545069973609804422010-09-26T19:31:25.184+01:002010-09-26T19:31:25.184+01:00I would say the pubs peaked between
55 and 68,only...I would say the pubs peaked between<br />55 and 68,only jerkoffs drank at<br />home.<br /><br />The pubs have been subject to a few<br />assaults in my lifetime,restricted <br />hours,Tv,Videos,Supermarkets,<br />Breathalyser,Tax hikes ,late licence clubs,industrial closures.<br />The pubs rode these storms and the number of pubs remained the same as<br />the previous 100 years,some closed<br />others were built.<br />But then came the thunderbolts,<br />the 24 hour silliness and of<br />course,(none dare mention its name)Allowing for the dramatic disappearence of real Englishmen,<br />and emergence of a new breed of<br />effeminate jellymen,the pubs signed their own death warrant<br />with their Quisling like complicity.The rapid decline will continue untill the punters and <br />publicans together start standing up and shouting out the obvious.<br /><br /><br />Not done yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com