RE: Morning Run: Reclaiming my crown
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Some pubs were purpose built. I suspect this was originally a house. It has been modified a lot by the current landlord, but the building is quite old. Seems it has been a pub for about 170 years.
There were others in the pub when we started, but by the end it was just us and the barmaid. She was requesting songs for us to play. I do wonder how some pubs make money when they are so empty. A few people buying a couple of drinks each will not cover costs. Hundreds of pubs are closing each year around the country. The one near me just spent a lot on re-decorating, so they must have hopes of doing well. We used to play there, but the previous owners decided they would rather fit in more tables to serve food as that makes them more money.
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Wow, 170 years, that is pretty awesome. I just think it is funny because from the pictures you would think you were sitting in someones living room. Everything over here is so commercial looking on the inside.
A lot of old pubs here look like someone's living room. There's a certain traditional 'pub style' you see a lot. We get some more commercial modern bars too. It may depend on what customers they want to attract. Younger people may prefer something 'trendy'. I do dislike it when there's loud music, but people are there to talk rather than dance. I must be old :)
I guess we are both getting old. I like music, but I like being able to follow conversations too. Most of the bars over here don't have as comfortable of seats as those look!
Maybe we need some posts about pubs and bars so people can see how they vary around the world. In some of these places you can almost feel like you are at home.
That could be pretty cool. They could also use @pinmapple with it to get them on the map for other people to see.
In Old English, an ealuhús was a hús where you could get ealu measured into your ealo-wǽge from an ealu-faet and get totally ealo-gál sitting on an ealo-benc listening to the ealu-scop sing/recite poetry. The whole thing was known as gebeórscipe (beeriness? convivial cheer with beer). Waes hael!
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Those census data are fascinating: you can imagine the history of the family and their lodgers. A ten-year-old agricultural labourer in 1861!
Life was tough back then. We have looked into some of our family and some of the kids died very young. They needed to be out earning as soon as possible.
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