How often did your parents go to the pub?

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Wondering if it more common in years gone by for parents, especially dad's to go to the pub. I have this image from TV of dad's going to the pub for a couple almost every night.

Same here, Irish 80/90s. Totally agree re the publicans and how they were never criticised for the role they played.

For my parents it was more a class thing. They wouldn't be seen with the likes of those down the pub. It made my life difficult as they couldn't grasp that young people go to socialise in a pub. The only time I ever saw my parents in a pub was the night of my sisters 21st party.

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I don’t remember either of them going when I was really little. By the time I was 8 or 9 they used to go on a Saturday night to “the club” which was under our church. There’d be music and they liked to dance.

When I was a teen, they still went most Saturday nights.

DH and I never went to the pub when the kids were little (he’d go occasionally after work, 3 or 4 times a year).

Now we go Saturday night, but it’s a pub/restaurant and we go mainly to eat.

Never. I was a kid in the 70s/80s.

My dad used to go a couple of nights a week and sometimes on a Sunday before lunch.

My mum never went unless we were all on holiday and went out as a family for a meal.

@jusjustjeansandanicetop unfortunately my dad was alcohol dependant before he met my mother. I guess their love became something co-dependant quite rapidly since it didn't take my mum long to develop a taste for it. They're both mid sixties now and still go to the pub most days. My dad was in the pub the same day he was sent home from bowel surgery! It's an awful disease, one I'm sorry I never had the cure for. It was an helpless feeling and still is.

Child in 1980’s and 1990’s. My parents never went to a pub. They would have one beer or rum and coke once home from work about once a month.

DM was the same! She was horrified I was meeting friends in pubs and sitting inside waiting for them by myself. If she went in a pub with my dad, she’d have waited outside until he arrived, she’d never have gone in by herself.

Pubs are pretty different now though, she’ll happily wait for me by herself in a gastropub.

My father, I have no idea. He buggered off in the 70s. Probably plenty of times, he was a pisshead. My mother, never.

Probably once every few months. It was always very exciting. They’d get all dressed up and meet friends. The teen next door neighbour would babysit and we’d have to get ready for bed before they arrived. When they’d gone, the babysitter would play games like hide and seek with us and we’d get to stay up late and have coke and crisps.

Never. I only saw them in a pub maybe twice ever for wakes.

Child of the 80’s - dad; every night, mum; almost never.

my dads dead now and his drinking was a big contributory factor.

My dad went nearly every night for a couple - village pub - it was nearly all men in there. We also used to have to wait for him to come home for Sunday or Christmas lunch, my mum would have been cooking all morning. 1970s and 80s. I think about this as just the way it was then, I guess it was pretty crappy, especially as my DM was the main earner though much of this time. My dad was always very involved with getting things done in the village and quite extrovert whereas DM isn't so I don't think she'd have enjoyed it even if she did go.

Hardly ever, they both had local friends they'd pop round for a cup of tea/coffee or they would invite people round for lunch/dinner or we'd go there.

Whenever we go to Italy my dad will pop out most mornings for an espresso (and a gossip) at the bar.

Never. I was born in the mid-60s.

sundays me and ds spent sitting in car listening to the top 40,

Most of my childhood was spent in the pub. The smoke was awful for my asthma. I’m still quite bitter about it all really. I have a really vivid memory of my mum screaming at me because we’d been in the pub all day, and I really wanted to go to the beach and she promised we would. We went home for dinner and I cried and cried because we were going back to the pub and I just wanted to do literally anything else. She had to stay home with me and while my dad went to the pub anyway and she really hates me for it.

I grew up in the 60/70's. My DM never went to the pub. My DF went on a Friday after work for a few. He would bring us chips from the chips on his way home.

Never I grew up in the 90s. My mum and stepdad had a very strange Co-dependency and isolated themselves from all other people including family.
I go out with my friends every 2-3 weeks so far more often than they ever did.

I am in my 60’s
when my dad was home from sea he would go with some frequency. He was a heavy drinker then took to drinking at home mostly on his own.
mum occasionally went.It depended on if we were visiting relatives or not otherwise would drink at home socially.
I can remember the tedium of waiting outside the pub for them with a bottle of coke, a soggy straw and a packet of crisps.
alcohol was very evident when I was growing up and considered normal.

Only weekends.
Saturday was sometimes spent with my sister outside a pub in a car park with a bottle of coke and crisps.
Every Sunday my dad used to meet his mates for a lunchtime drink.
Me and DH rarely go.

Mine didn't but it was really common place for omen from our village to do that and lots still so. I vowed to. It marry anyone who did as I didn't want that lifestyle

Just at the weekend.

Dad used to go and meet his friends there on a Friday night about 9 till closing, which was 10.30 in those days (late 70s/early 80s). We would occasionally go to one as a family if out for a walk at a weekend lunchtime and sit in the garden (it was a pub by a canal with picnic benches). No afternoon opening in those days, I remember how revolutionary it seemed when licensing hours were relaxed (late 80s?). As soon as I was old enough (16, no one checked), I started going with my friends, there wasn't much else to do where we lived but plenty of pubs. My social life revolved around them for years as a student but I've never been a big drinker. DD works in one and says there are plenty (mostly men) who turn up most nights. I can see that from the one over the road from us too, same blokes walking in there after work most nights.

Very rarely once they were parents. This was the 80s and 90s. We were a young working family with a mortgage so there was no spare money.

I remember going for social reasons the odd time, but that was as a family, we played on the play equipment in the pub garden.