Revellers flock to pub selling Britain’s cheapest pint – at same average price as in 1997
A PUB is selling Britain’s cheapest pint at just £1.80 — the average price in 1997.
The bargain boozer emerged after news that the typical price had soared above £4.
The Sun found more than 20 customers were already waiting at the bar when the Ardwick opened at 11am yesterday in Blackpool, Lancs.
Landlady Lynn Haworth, 64, said: “I keep the costs down due to the volume I sell.
“We get holidaymakers but it’s mainly regulars.”
The deal includes John Smith’s, Foster’s and Strongbow cider.
Cabbie Phil David said: “Whenever I go south I start paying three or four times more.”
Phil, 62, joked: “My daughter moved to Surrey, and she’s been totally stunned by how expensive everything is.”
But Lynn said: “You wouldn’t get away with it in Blackpool.”
The last time an average pint cost just £1.80 was 26 years ago in May 1997 – when Gary Barlow’s post-Take That solo track Love Won’t Wait was top of the charts.
Pints would cost just £3.36 if they had risen in line with inflation for other consumer goods since 1997, figures from the Bank of England show.
On Monday we revealed some beers in London’s plush West End had topped the £9 mark.
The eye-watering tab was found at a bar in the theatre district as part of a 90,000-pub survey carried out by industry trackers CGA.