What time did the pubs close in London (in 1950)?
The pub closes and then the professor and the actress (?) go to her flat. A little while later, looking out the window, Big Ben chimes midnight. (Another day gone!)
Pubs closed at 10.30.
shareYes, 10.30pm (22.30) was the commonest closing time - but there was no national rule. Licencing hours were the domain of the local council/police authority.
This led to some odd arrangements. In the Hertfordshire village I lived in, the boundary between 2 councils was the Grand Union Canal and there was a pub on both sides of the bridge. On one side the pub closed at 10pm so everyone walked with their full glasses across the bridge to the other pub that closed at 10.30pm. The next morning the pub's boy would return the empty glasses (cleaned) back over the bridge.
Sadly, one of Mr Hitler's nasty aircraft ended the arrangement in 1941 when one of the pubs was blitzed.
Which village, similar thing happened in Pangbourne
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This one's even better: until a few years ago-a pub in Surrey literally on the border with Greater London, the border went thru' the pub! At 22:30 on the Surrey side of the bar, you walked into the next bar(In Greater London), and carried on drinking. Sadly this anomaly was change a few years ago.
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