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Bridie wrote: ........What's the defination of a dry area? seriously
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The influence of the temperance movement also spread to trade unions and areas of heavy industry, where the demon drink was often though to corrupt the cause of the working man. In the First World War there were worries the drunkenness of munitions workers was hampering productivity.
In 1913 the abstinence campaigners, known mockingly as “pussyfoots”, achieved their greatest triumph. The Temperance (Scotland) Act allowed each district to hold a majority-wins poll on banning the sale of alcohol. Much to their disappointment, only 40 districts voted to go “dry” (leaving more than 500 “wet” areas).
Pub-free areas included the well-to-do suburbs of Glasgow, such as Langside, Kelvinside, Pollokshields and Cathcart, and small industrial towns like Kilsyth, Kirkintilloch and Airdrie. Stromness in the Orkneys was dry from 1920 to 1947, only repealing the ban because the islanders felt they were scaring off rowdy sailors and their cash from the town.
In 1922 Winston Churchill, then a Liberal MP for Dundee, even lost his seat in parliament to prohibitionist candidate Ernest “Neddy” Scrymgeour, who made his name denouncing the city’s predominately female workers, who were thought to be doing a bit too much cavorting and carousing when not hard at work in the jute factories.
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Bankie Boy wrote:The Ettrick in Old Kilpatrick is my local. Its a good wee boozer. A decent bar for the locals and a separate lounge with live bands if you fancy that sort of thing. (everything from folk to blues to pop). At weekends the lounge gets very busy.
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