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Word is that this is the last week for the Tavistock.
I reckon that the wetherspoons has had a say in the demise of P.C's and the Tavistock. People don't really go to the pub anymore, not like when i was growing up during the eighties and nineties, pubs were rammed on a Friday and Saturday night. It was the done thing. Younger generations have more choice, demographics have changed, traditional workplaces no longer exist for working class people and communities are more transient. Plus the breweries couldn't care less.
People can 'socialise' from home with a 4.99 bottle of drinkable-ish plonk and an iPad.
Except it is not 'socialising', but that is where we are right now.
By the time things might go full circle - as things do - and people might want to go out to s
ocialise again (or maybe not) there will be few 'pubs' left.
So .. that's that really, together with all the other reasons mentioned in this thread and the Crofts thread.
The majority of pubs have probably had their day.
Completely agree.
Time was on a Friday lunchtime I would go out and have 5 pints with work colleagues on an 'extended lunch' before going back to the office.
Now if I mentioned going for half a lager lunchtime in the workplace I'd get looked at like some kind of alchy.
I firmly believe that the off licence facility should be given to your local pub only and taken away from your supermarket etc. Will never and can't happen now.
I'm feel like one of the last of a dying breed.
I never drink at home and only go pubs when I want a pint.
However even my habits are long changed. Pub was an activity many of us did 4 or 5 times a week. I now go once or twice only, nearly always at weekends. I don't drink in the week but love to make up for it at weekends.
Like you, the Friday liquid lunch was a work essential. Can't remember the last time I went to the pub at work.
Even when we go to pubs, half the time it's to have food too (or sometimes watch sport) instead of a session and chat with the regular mates.
I do think you can now get a fantastic range of ales. Maybe better than ever. However the number of what I call 'real' pubs are almost extinct.
However as long as pubs exist, they remain the only place I want to drink.
I think Cardiff suffers due to the dominance of Brains. Any good managers in the smaller pubs just end up in the big ones too.
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