70s pubs

[snodgrass]

I'm currently writing a novel set in 1973, when I was not of drinking age. Can anyone help me with what draught and bottled beers would have been on sale in a country pub (West Sussex, Hampshire sort of area) at that time, also what pub food, crisps/ nuts etc. Also I remember as a child our local pub used to serve bowls of cubes of cheese, cheeselet biscuits and salted nuts - was this widespread?

[woofgang]

My father in law used to run a pub in somerset and he always put out cheese and biscuits in the bar on a sunday, as did most of the locals in his area; they also did it round here (Hampshire) Pa in law said that it used to be the law but he was a bit vague about the whys and wherefores and whether it still was. 

[Jenny Tools]

Draught Beers -

Whitbread Tankard

Whitbread Trophy

Double Diamond

Skol

Watney's Red Barrel

Fremlin's AK light mild

Worthington E

Bottle Beers -

Whitbread Masterbrew

Whitbread New Forest Brown

Manns Brown ale

Mackinson

Gold Lable

Guinness

Bottle of soda on the bar for free use

Arrowroot biscuits

 

 

 

[archbishop]

And don'r forget tho opening times were a bit different to nowadays.

Sunday 12 - 2. 7.30 - 10.30

Mon - Sat 11am - 3pm. 5.30 - 11pm

Unless you were in a market town and all sorts of weird and wonderful times applied.

[archbishop]

Also check out the local breweries for the area which might not be around now.

[woofgang]

oh arrowroot biscuits, they were lovely, also jars of cockles or mussels served with a brown bread roll. Outside the pubs in London on a sunday lunch time there was usually a shell fish stall and a flower stall

[Jenny Tools]

George Gales is a Hampshire brewery

http://tinyurl.com/4e9hq 

 

[soulstar11]

What about roast spuds on the bar on a Sunday lunch time?

Also: pork scratchings, pickled eggs/ gherkins. Scotch eggs under a clear perspex lid - warmed(unintentionally!). Not forgetting Mr Cockle / Winkle - depending where you lived - the mobile seafood seller. Probably responsible for more sickies than the pubs he sold in.