The Perfect Pint and the British Pub
British pubs, pub culture, the perfect pint and one Essex barmaid’s extraordinary 53-year career come together in this episode of Mark and Pete. Sally Ward began pulling pints on her eighteenth birthday and, more than half a century later, has finally called time. Fifty-three years behind the bar. That is rather more stability than British politics has managed, and with noticeably better customer service.
We look at Sally’s remarkable working life and what it tells us about the role of the traditional British pub. A good pub is not merely somewhere that sells beer. It is a meeting place, a…
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