'If we don't support them we'll never get them back': Punters brave Covid and the cold in return to the pub

‘If we don’t support them we’ll never get them back’: Punters brave Covid and the cold in return to the pub
Vincent Wood
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As opening time approached, the staff at The Victoria in east London’s Mile End stopped their frantic preparations and stared in unison at the door in a strange stand off.
On the other side a group of customers, having booked a table they would be sitting at in a matter of seconds, were waiting patiently for the hypothetical clock to strike.
It’s quite possible that in the times before the pandemic-inspired breakdown of society, they may well have barged straight in – but something, maybe the threat of ever changing rules, or a rusty understanding of social etiquette, or the prestige of the moment, saw them wait until it was exactly midday.

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