Same locale, mid-year, mid-day: Visit rural post office, look round corner of counter... ...into bar.
Post counter lady: "Sorry sir the bar is closed for another hour, would you be after having a drink while you're waiting?" :-)
He said it was straight out of the comic sketch lexicon.
I've heard that one too. Maybe it's a rural myth?
The afternoon closings were a pain and there were various workarounds.
In some jurisdictions, farmers traveling between one job site and another were entitled to have a drink at the pub, even during afternoon closing hours.
Steve
Markets (both in London and Birmingham that I know of had early opening, early being 5 or 6am) always tended to have a back door route to the pub.
Simple solution for ordinary drinkers, walk into the market veer off (right in the case of Birmingham) and enter the pub through that door.
Hmmm, the guys name was Tom Willey, you know him or was the rendition you heard someone else?
Someone else; perhaps it happens more often than we think!
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