I think you are correct . I also seem to remember that if you had travelled more than three miles to get to the hotel then you could be served drinks.
Men from one town would travel to a nearby town for a drink, with traffic heading in the other direction for the same purpose.
Several localities in Scotland and Wales were ‘dry’ on a Sunday, although there were several avenues whereby the determined could still get a drink legally. The last of the ‘dry’ areas became ‘wet’ some years ago.
What’s a “free house,” as in “Winchester Arms Free House”?
Many pubs are owned by breweries - in fact, their property portfolio alone used to make them amongst the richest domestic businesses in the UK - which means a lot of their stock is tied to that brewery’s products, usually draft beers and ciders. Whereas a “free house” is a pub that is owned and run by the landlord, and can stock whatever beers and ciders it wishes. Sadly, free houses are on the way out, as times are already tight for pubs and they have lower margins on the booze they sell.
A lot of the blame for this has to lie with the increasing influence on the big non-brewery McPub chains, ironically a result of the 1980s(?) legislation which forced bigger breweries to sell a lot of their pubs in an attempt to stop the market from being monopolised.
Ooh…I have something to add.
I spent a fair amount of time in pubs on Saturday mornings with my father as a child- he had a pint of Guinness and read the paper, we ate a packet of crisps and charmed the barman into giving us olives and cherries.
We were always in the Lounge bar- the “appropriate” room for small children and ladies. Dad, if he was on his own in the evenings without my mum went to the Public bar, if he and mum were out together they went to the Longe bar.
According to dad, the craic was always better in the public bar, but it wasn’t really the place for women and kids.
Now dad’s old local is my local, and we’ll go for a drink with friends there- lounge bar if we want to chat, public bar to watch a match on the big screen.
Huh. I can’t imagine a bar that sold only Anheiser-Busch products or only Miller products or whatever being profitable in the US.
Of course not, I was just correcting that poster’s misstatement. Dice Bar it is.
Yes, but mostly because they’d be illegal.
Maybe not, but the breweries and their tied pubs were pioneers of product branding - many had a particular style of decoration, often with coloured tiles, on the exterior of the building (corporate colours?), and the Bass Brewery’s red triangle was rthe first trade mark registered in the UK.
They don’t only sell products from one particular brand. If you went to a pub run by Fuller’s for instance, it’d have a selection of Fullers real ales made, but then they’d also have lagers, stouts, wines, bottled beers, etc, made by other producers.