@ianbetteridge

Your childhood, as mine, falls into a rather narrow window, historically speaking.

Children were only banned from the bar areas (specifically) of pubs in 1908. It wasn't until 1872 that people were even prohibited from selling spirits to them.

After two reports in 1972 and 1973 recommended the idea, Children's Certificates were introduced in 1990 (Scotland) and 1995 (England and Wales) letting them back in again if a certificate were applied for and granted.

For a painful historical sense of how long ago this was and how many people have grown up with the expectation that (accompanied) children in pub bars is once again normal: Michael Portillo was still in government at the time. (-:

https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/67/enacted

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