| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 481 |
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The bar was arranged in the usual way, being divided into several compartments. First there was the `Saloon Bar': on the glass of the door leading into this was fixed a printed bill: `No four ale served in this bar.' Next to the saloon bar was the jug and bottle department, much appreciated by ladies who wished to indulge in a drop of gin on the quiet. There were also two small `private' bars, only capable of holding two or three persons, where nothing less than fourpennyworth of spirits or glasses of ale at threepence were served. Finally, the public bar, the largest compartment of all. At each end, separating it from the other departments, was a wooden partition, painted and varnished. Wooden forms fixed across the partitions and against the walls under the windows provided seating accommodation for the customers. A large automatic musical instrument - a `penny in the slot' polyphone - resembling a grandfather's clock in shape - stood against one of the partitions and close up to the counter, so that those behind |
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