The Pub and the People: A Worktown StudyThe first of a series of four volumes on life in "Worktown",an anonymous town in the north of England. |
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alcohol asked average bar counter barmaid barman beer beerhouse behaviour best rooms betting Blackpool bloody bottles bowler bowler hat brewers called caps cent chap Chief Constable Church club counts customers darts dominoes draught beer drink drunk drunkenness factors figures Friday full licences gill girls glass goes Guinness half Hotel Humphrey Spender landlady landlord licensing London lounge main roads Mass-Observation Merseyside mild mild beer minutes number of drinkers number of pubs observer Oddfellows ordinary parlour pigeon pint played population pub-goers public house raffles regulars ritual round Saturday night says shove ha'penny shows singing sitting social society sort spitting spittoons standing statistics street Sunday talk taproom teetotal teetotallers Temperance Temperance Movement thing TOM HARRISSON town centre pubs trilbies vault week week-end wine woman women Worktown pubs young