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.

Dp's never went as a couple or as a family.
I think occasionally df would go to the pub after work for a leaving do or similar.
Only reason why I think that is I remember dm teasing him about drinking more than the orange juice he said because he arrived home without lights on his bike because he said he couldn't remember how to put them on. It certainly was very unusual and not even once a year.

We almost never ate out or bought drinks when out either though.

I don't think my parents went much (grew up in the 80s). Can't really remember. My uncle in the other hand was a raging alcoholic and would go every afternoon for a few hours without fail

A colleague in her 50s also told the story of as a kid being outside in the car with a packet of crisps while her parents were in the pub

My parents went on nights out approx 15-20 times together during my entire childhood and thatd be with my dads schoolfriends/the odd quiz night or whatever.

My dad would go to his work Christmas do on his own without mum, but never went to the pub for just a drink.

Since we've left home, he does his hobby at the weekend and goes for a drink on the way back from that, but he never did that when we were growing up. My grandad (his dad, who was very working class...like he grew up in an actual slum area that was cleared in the 30s) apparently used to look down on people who went to the pub, leaving the wife and kids at home (and really hated people who left their kids outside the pub with crisps.) So perhaps it was due to the way he was brought up.

Never

My dad was in there most nights, my mum joined him once or twice a week. I think up North it was more normal (weak bitter was drunk so he wasn’t there to get drunk per se)
Born late 70s so this was 80s 90s
i also remember being in the car and being brought squash and crisps on his way back from football matches we were dragged to when my mum went shopping!

Mum hardly ever, my Dad every Friday night. We were only taken as kids on Boxing Day.

Never

They socialised though

I was a child in the 90's and my dad used to go every Tuesday evening and either Friday or Saturday too. I used to like him going out as I could watch what I wanted on TV 😂

I grew up in the 70s/80s, my parents never went to the pub. We had a bottle of wine with Sunday dinner. I'm grateful that they weren't big drinkers or spending time away in the pub. Ex DH went daily and was a functioning alcoholic and a nightmare, it was the main reason I had to end the marriage.

All the time. My dad daily. I remember standing outside the pub on many occasions waiting for someone to go in to send my dad out so I could speak to him..usually because my mum was crying at home because he wouldn't leave. Most weekends and many after schools I spent in the car with my brother while they were in a pub. We were told if we were good (that meant not coming to the pub door to speak to them) they would bring us a lime and soda or crisps. There was one pub with a bouncy castle and playground so the best weekends were when they chose that one. We never went on days out, it was trips to the pub or the video shop. This was the 90's. I've often wondered if it was normal for the time or not.

Very rarely, I only remember my dad going on a couple of occasions and my mum never.
They had a drink in the house but when I was young I don't remember seeing them drink much. Born mid 80's

Maybe once a month separately with friends and then one a month together (so twice each) whilst I was growing up, now my dad goes every Saturday night and my mum every Thursday, very occasionally they will go together!

My dad would go once a week, he was in a pub quiz team and played bridge with his friends. Think he still does! My mum never had a regular evening like that but would go on occasional evenings out.

Mum and stepdad every single day… we were left home alone most nights and had a drunk angry stepfather when he finally got home. I look back with absolute horror at my ‘childhood’

My dad every Friday night, my mum never!

Op programs like EastEnders, and Corniation St give the impression that everyone is constantly in the pub.
Long time since I've really watched them but they use the pub as somewhere to develop the story lines. Same as the cafe and the laundrette. None of the characters seem to commute to work either. I don't know anywhere where people live and work 10 secs apart.

I'm going to draw an odd parallel, churches and pubs.
Both were community hubs, which are struggling with falling congregations. Pubs and churches are closing every week.
People went for the social experience, to meet people, keep in touch with others. They were places where local news, information was shared and passed on.
Lots of social events were organised in pubs, football teams, darts, pool leagues. Dominios, and cards. I even knew one with a library shelf.
Churches had guilds, carpet bowls, various committees, toddler groups.

I'd think it's a combination of better entertainment options at home. Tv used to go off during the day so the pub was as much about company as it was about the drink.

Thinking of lots of stuff the local Facebook is used for anyone know a plumber, kids football club, where to get a dogwalker, all that info would have been shared in the church and the pub.

From the age of 8 to about 10 my parents went to the pub every weekend and dragged me along with them (only child). It was the worst, I got so so bored and they often got pissed and rowed. As a child I hated the weekend coming up! Then suddenly aged 10 it stopped like overnight. I don't know if something got said or they couldnt afford it but it stopped. This day and age you would have your child taken off you! This was around 1998. Funnily enough I never drink around my own kids.

Neither of my DPs went to the pub. The only time they/we’d have a drink is when we passed our local on the way back from long walks in the summer when we would be hot and thirsty.
my mother went to our local British Legion club every Saturday where there was always a live band. As we grew up and reached 18 we joined her.

Hardly ever. Maybe once a year on their wedding anniversary,and even then it was to a pub where you could have a meal. I vaguely remember my dad occasionally going out with a friend for a drink about once a month.

My parents always went together every Saturday night and Christmas Eve.
I used to love sitting on my mum's bed watching her getting all glammed up with her make up etc when I was little.

80’s born here. My parents went out to the local ‘club’ on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8pm. Always together and usually with my grandparents. They had lots of friends there but weren’t big drinkers. When I was 18 they couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to join the club too, and be part of their social circle. They were doing what their parents had done. The neighbourhood ‘clubs’ were a big part of life on Mancunian council estates.

Every night.

My Dad most nights but I only visited eow. Lots of memories of sitting in beer gardens and also cold conservatories when it was raining. We weren’t allowed in the main pub.

Very little, other than for a short period of time for Sunday lunch when my mum was waiting to have cataracts done. Dad had sight limitations so his cooking was limited.

In the 70s parents used to go to the pub usually once a week. We lived in a friendly community where many neighbours were friends and they would all meet up there - usually on a Friday night. In the 80s we lived in a rural quiet area and so they would probably go a couple of times a month with friends or family but it was more normal to have people round or go to other's homes then. They never got roaring drunk.