Letter: Days of having drink in a rural pub are over
It's all very well people campaigning to prevent long-closed pubs from being converted into housing, as with The Swan, at Frodesley, but lack of customers forced their local hostelries to shut, as recently with the Bottle & Glass, in Picklescott, and hundreds of others, more's the pity.
It's all very well people campaigning to prevent long-closed pubs from being converted into housing, as with The Swan, at Frodesley, but lack of customers forced their local hostelries to shut, as recently with the Bottle & Glass, in Picklescott, and hundreds of others, more's the pity.
The breathalyser and then the smoking ban finished rural pubs, as well as high cost of drinks compared with the supermarket.
And the days when alcoholic farm workers drowned their sorrows every night, after backbreaking toil, dying aged 50 or so, are also over, their poor hovels converted into up-market commuter belt houses or weekend retreats.
Perhaps people should be allowed to sell beer in their front rooms, opened up as ale houses like in the 1700s?
WF Kerswell,
Picklescott
