FabSwingers.com forum: Pubs

By *ringles0510 OP Woman
over a year ago

Central Borders

As I'm lying in bed started thinking about when the last time would have been that nobody was in the pub on a Friday night anywhere in the UK and most of the EU.

I think it was over 1100 years ago. Google told me that Sean's bar in Ireland was the first ever pub to open their door in the 10th century. And I reckon, since they opened up and more pubs will have started up shortly after, there has never been a Friday night where people aren't making use of the pubs. Until TODAY!!!

So everyone who's not a key worker tucked up in bed like me?

Thinking of hospital and care staff and so many people ill. Really hope the tide will turn soon and not just to get the pubs open up again. Strange times we live in.

Night everyone x

By *ringles0510 OP Woman
over a year ago

Central Borders

Not asleep yet

Or maybe the pubs all closed in 1918 during the Spanish flu outbreak. Couldn't find anything about it though.....

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do like a fact or three.. it would appear the Romans’ invented the pubs, having built the original roads network...

“The inhabitants of the British Isles have been drinking ale since the Bronze Age, but it was with the arrival of the Roman Empire on its shores in the 1st century, and the construction of the Roman road networks that the first inns, called tabernae, in which travellers could obtain refreshment, began to appear.”

Everyday’s a learning day...

By *ink-KameraMan
over a year ago

Livingston

The Taverns in Rome are thought to be the origin of what we call a pub, However Beer goes a lot further back then the Romans. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that beer was produced as far back as about 7,000 years ago in what is today Iran.