ATV Today: 28.10.1980: Pubs

Summary

Because of the sale of cheap alcohol in supermarkets, pubs are suffering a recession. A new supermarket has opened in Stirchley that only sells alcohol.

Year:

1980

Duration:

0:01:52

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Brief view of 'Beer at Home' slogan on side of Davenports Brewery. Shots of Drinksville Liquor Store at Stirchley, a newly opened supermarket for beer and wine including shots of a customer buying alcohol. Anne Diamond interview with Mr Guest, landlord of the Black Ealgle pub at Hockley in Birmingham who talked about the narrow profit margins and how many pubs would not survive. (+ 2.20 trims of Drinksville sequence).


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