Pub Ruling on Women

Burton Mail : Article from WW1 [Held at Burton Library]

February 1916

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4TH 1916: BURTON LICENSEES PROBLEM

The supplying of women and children.

Councillor A.E. Birch, Secretary of the Burton Licensed Retailers Association recently addressed a communication to the Burton County Licensing Justices with reference to the undertaking entered into by the trade, not to serve women and children before 11am or after 9pm and suggesting in view of the altered times of closing it would conduce to uniformity of action if the times were extended to 9-30pm. The reply has been forthcoming that the undertaking still remains in force and that therefore women and cannot be served on licensed premises after 9pm.