1970

[Davegase]

I thought it was fairly obvious i was showing the 1970 list so we could discuss the prices and different drinks on sale back then obviously not.

I remember paying 25 pence for a pint of bitter when I started going into pubs in 1975.
Those little price lists were on the wall at the end of every bar in those days.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Displaying bar prices was normal back in the day. When did that stop being the case? Or is it just my eyesight beginning to fail

People want more variety than just a choice between "bitter", "mild", "gin" and "whisky", so about ?15 years ago the rules were tweaked so that they no longer had to display a pricelist of everything they sold, just prices of a representative selection.

I suspect it's also tied up a bit with the move to electronic tills, which don't always make it easy to just dump a pricelist of what's currently on sale, whereas in the old days the publican would maintain something more basic that was easier to print off.

 

[Stu]

If my memory serves me correctly it was the £2 coin which was issued around the late 1990’s when beer in my Local in London was about £2 a pint.

The £2 coin did indeed rock up in 1998. But by then, beer was definitely much more than £2 a pint in and around Slough/Windsor where I lived.

The £1 coin was introduced in 1983 - my folks always referred to them as beer tokens.

 

[Stu]

I remember paying 25 pence for a pint of bitter when I started going into pubs in 1975.
Those little price lists were on the wall at the end of every bar in those days.

By law, they should still be.

It's very rare that I see them.