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Inside Britain’s last temperance bar – the first of a new brand of boozer
An alcohol ban in pubs is under consideration, and young people are shunning drink. Is Mr Fitzpatrick s the future of our watering holes?
20 February 2021 • 5:00pm
Ashleigh Morley-Doidge, owner of Mr Fitzpatrick’s Temperance Bar
Credit: Lorne Campbell/Guzelian
During its 122-year history, Mr Fitzpatrick’s bar in Rawtenstall has endured enough crises to turn many to drink – two world wars, the Spanish Flu pandemic, and now Covid, to name but a few. But with Britain’s hospitality trade tanking and many pubs closing their doors for good, spirits are still high at Britain’s last original temperance bar, which has stood on Bank Street in the Lancashire mill town since 1899.
One of the most joyful noises I’ve heard for a while was the sound of my wee grand-daughter Eva giggling as we played in the heavy snow on Saturday afternoon. I posted a photo on Facebook of her, me and an odd-shaped snowman, and judging by the “likes” and comments, many people shared in our simple pleasure. Accompanying the pic, I’d deliberately written “Kids are happy outdoors.” The pandemic lockdown, it seems to me, is imposing shocking restrictions on our children right through the various ages to an extent that is building up serious problems for the well-being of a whole generation, now and in the future.
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