Anyone remember Early Closing Day?

Do you remember the AA boxes, dad had a key

 

I forgot, closed for lunch

 

When we bought our Pharmacy it closed half day Wednesday. One of the first things we did was start opening all day and it was as busy as any other day when we sold up.

 

Were you allowed to do that? I thought early closing was some kind of local byelaw - you had to do it.

 

Wednesdays here too. A Post Office in a nearby town still closes on Thursday afternoon. Lunchtime closing, even some bakers/cafes used to close for lunch, aah the good old days (and the irony).

 

But don't you appreciate things at a slower pace. That's why we all love our VW bays, isn't it?

 

Really, really good pub though. We're saving up to go there for Sunday lunch again.

 

I've got a map reading light in my mgb.

 

Half day wednesday too in `mighty` Leeds .

Remeber the sneaky pub lock-ins ??
For our younger readers all pubs had be closed at 11 and emptied by 11.15 . If you got lucky , by 11.30 the curtains would be closed and a chosen few would be allowed to stay for a `late taste` ...
And whilst we`re on the pubs , anyone remember the serving hatch at the entrance for `outsales` , to be consumed off the premises - i.e the local playground

Only place you could buy fish & chips on a Sunday lunchtime was Moortown as it had a large Jewish community - how times change ...

Those were the days

 

When I first joined RAC they used to send a key out with your card

 

I don't remember asking anyone tbh. I think some shop leases had trading hours in those days.

 

These maybe slightly out of date

 

Saturday afternoon if we didn't go to the footy consisted of putting on the itv7 in the bookies, then watching the races in the pub,3 o'clock closing, then a lock in till we went out clubbing

 

Yes and there's a very preserved example of the A591 coming out of Grasmere towards Keswick.

 

The first one was on the A24 near Box Hill

 

Ahhh. Lock-ins. We always used to have a rule of serve yourself and put a 'donation' in the pint jug under the till

 

I remember the AA roadside box https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20144/lot/431/

 

Is it still good? Haven't eaten there for a long time. Next time you're coming this way let me know.

 

In my Munich days - @Bhubesi will remember this - shops only opened half days on Saturdays, unless it was langer Samstag (one day a month). A right pain. All the Germans would be up at 6am, ready to do their shopping, whereas the Brits would stagger out of bed at 10am after a Friday night on the beer and find all the bloody shops shut.

Not sure if they still do it.

 

They used to salute my Dad as he cruised past in his Hillman Minx. He thought the RAC were rather common...