A copper round my way comes in checking kids aren’t in pubs after 9pm. Though they can sit shivering outside at pubs with tables outside after that. And that is in a seaside resort. And people wonder why people go abroad for their holidays.
It's still owned by Manchester City Council and Man City paid £20m towards the cost of converting it to a football stadium (roughly half the cost, Manchester City Council paid the other half).
He named 3 restaurants. He also said the evening not necessarily after 9pm. I was quite surprised to be turned away from 2 or 3 pubs in the old town before we found one that would let my daughter in, with us, during the afternoon when she was about 8 or so. I'd never experienced that before elsewhere in the UK but I suppose the other pubs we'd been in with her were more country/seaside pubs or more food focused. When I was a kid I don't think hardly any pubs let kids in. Even at the seaside.
Fair enough, I wasn't aware licensed premises didnt allow children after 2100 - I was also in the bulls head in Repton before Xmas and there were children, even a sleeping baby in our group, there that late, so perhaps different rules if there's a restaurant attached. Ha, well, choose is a debate - I have free will of course, but family and work mean that the choice is made for me, for now. If I was on my own without strings, I'd without doubt prefer to live in the UK because of the better social life.
I would choose to live abroad because of the better social life. But my better half won’t go. If my lottery numbers come up I could afford to go and leave her here. I live in Brid and my local pub had a restaurant attached. A copper used to come round and tell people to take them out after 9pm. The next nearest pub to me serves meals later, up to 10pm and there were arguments when a copper has tried to enforce this when people were still eating and in some cases hadn’t yet been served.
Are you sure about that? I thought it could vary depending on the pub's license. I think Spoon's has a 9pm deadline but others could be different.
I just checked and kids in pubs until 10.00pm in the summer is only in Ireland, though it's 10.00pm here in sports clubs.
They pay for repairs as well. Long convoluted story of how the stadium came about, the alterations to plans and how Man City ended up there. The area around it has certainly benefitted. Shame there isn’t the room round the MKM to do the same. Though having the money available to what Man City have done would be the problem even if there was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Manchester_Stadium
I know it is 9pm for the reasons I mentioned in another post. Needless to say any copper delegated to checking these things is often greeted by remarks about having nothing better to do, especially by people on holiday.
The deadline is an area thing. some pubs are earlier, some choose to have kids out earlier but 9pm is the cut off. One pub near me has a notice outside saying children are welcome between 12 and 6 pm if having a meal. If not having a meal or at other times have to sit outside. And this is in a holiday resort. Pleased to say it is not doing as well as it did years ago,
A strange issue is, that once you've been away over 2 decades or so, the country left has changed a lot from what I remember. So if left as an adult and dont have a historical connection to the new country, then you're never fully a native of the country you move to, even if speak the language fluently and have children who are native, but also the UK increasingly feels like a foreign country, so end up being a citizen of no where.. I remember the good things about the UK, and many of the bad things reported online, if true, didn't exist when I was there or not to the extent that I noticed.
You can’t even work in the amusements aged under 16 now. All the jobs we did in the summer holidays aren’t open to kids now. TigersInCanada will tell you how gangs of lads, apart from working there used to hang about in Joyland all day long. Now they have to be accompanied if under 16 and can’t go in at night. Kept us off the streets but not out of mischief. Mind you, you can’t go to football on your own under 14 nowadays. Most of us older ones had started going before then. A lot of us wouldn’t have had the chance if it had been like that when we started going because our dads were working on a Saturday.
I can find nothing that says 9pm is a deadline except in a NI govt document. I've been in lots of pubs after 9pm and seen u-16's with their families. They can't all be breaking the law surely!
There are differing kinds of licences and restrictions depending on type and location of establishment, but 7 or 9 pm is usually the cutoff for u18s in pubs, but sometimes this can be company imposed as opposed to licencing policy. Obviously licensed gig venues, theatres, restaurants can usually allow entry to u18s after this time. 14 appears to be the age a lot of these venues allow entry without adult supervision. Much depends on the local councils licensing policy which obviously varies.
Because the draw was Pepis, which was new and sparkly then. In it's wisom the council decided to make things difficult for the owners of not just Pepis but the other bars in the area because the area became 'too popular'. They resticted opening hours for a start after complaints from the Old Peoples housing complex directly opposite Pepis. I used to talk regularly with Francis Daly in those days. He was instrumental in the popularity of the old town but he had to fight tooth and nail with the council to be so. He showed me an old warehouse on Waterhouse Lane he had refurbished into a bar/night club and it was superb, must have cost him a fortune, but he had real difficulty getting a late license for it. You saw later why when the council compulary purchased the whole area and bulldozed it, whereas places like Liverpool rebuilt those old dockland areas. Hull instead built Princes Quay. He finally threw the towel in and left the city altogether. The owner of Pepis also did a runner, allegedly.
