24 hour pubs

Not an answer to your thread , but to read in the press that now we can drink in pubs after 11 pm.........well , haven't we always been able to? We all know of pubs,normally away from towns or cities,where the landlords have had a relaxed approach to licensing hours. Well do I remember the Red Lion at Stathern in the 60s/70s which was always open till the last customer had had enough - normally around 2 am. The landlord maintained that he'd only called "Time" twice in 14 years!

Quite.

However in answer to the original post: I don't know about anyone else, but where I can go to have a quiet drink without loud oiks disturbing my late drinking is between me and other good friends. I'm in two minds about longer hours because I've never needed to drink longer than the licensees were willing to serve me. My main problem at times was finding the means of opening the door to get out at 3 or 4 am.

In message , snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes

Three "pubs" in central Reading have taken out 24-hour licenses. At least two aren't really pubs and I wouldn't want to drink in the other.

I'm told there's been five licences applied for here in deepest Kent, two of which are for supermarkets, one for a "vodka ice bar", one for a pub in an obscure village, and one for a pub somewhere in Ashford

There's been a bit of an outcry about supermarkets too.But no 24 hour store will want to have to chain off the drinks section every night - remember they had to do this on Sundays and Good Friday in the not too distant past.

Which places are they?

Paul

That represents almost everything I've campaigned for in the extension of licensing. I say almost because the other thing I'd like to see is that the regulator bodies make the licensees declare their "core" hours on a notice visible outside and also display regular (holiday) variations.

Nothing worse than going past a pub and thinking you will pop back at X o'clock only to find at X o'clock that they don't open before X+1 or that they closed at X-1