Letter: Drink problems were bad then, too
Monday 1st February 2010, 6:49AM GMT.
Letter: W F Kerswell wrote about drunkenness in the past and I agree with him.
I lived next door to the old Royal George in Shifnal between 1933 and 1949.
The pubs opened for two hours about midday and in the evening until 10.30pm.
At the weekends the George was full and so were all the other 19 pubs in Shifnal.
At midday and evenings they where waiting outside the George for it to open.
I witnessed many drunken men fighting outside the George and falling over as they tried to walk.
And in a morning we would discover that drunks had urinated up our back door.
A number of the men had large families. I went to school with their children. They were very poor but they still got drunk. Perhaps that is why I am not a big drinker.
Tom Brazier
Trench
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trouble is now it’s news, when back then it wasn’t same as murders etc just as many then as now but it didn’t make the headlines.
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I was born in the Thirties and spent my boyhood and emerging adulthood in the Forties and Fifties and whilst I agree that the Pub and the Alehouse was the prime source of alcohol consumption and befuddled men would on occasions lash out at one another at least next morning they would greet the day with a thick head, a fat lip or a black eye but alive! .. today you hear of gunshots in broad daylight, multipule stab wounds, home invasions in broad day light and in this very news edition a report of an old lady on crutches having her purse snatched! …. as a boy in those 30′s and 40′s I could walk the streets at night with a greater sense of safety than today and older seniors admit that they are afraid to venture out after dark!.
The letter writer and “jeff” is either oblivious of current events or they are blind to what this country has evolved into.
In the 30′s and 40′s the Policeman walked his beat alone without firearm! …. does he do it today? ………….
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