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My one shift as a bartender

A bar called Yates in Nottingham is where I learned that I make a terrible bar tender. Yates are Britain's oldest pub chain.

However, I didn't last long: I only had one shift.

The boss advised me to stay at the quiet end of the bar - up at the back - as it was a Saturday night and very lively. I made the big mistake of serving the person to the left each time.

Within 20 minutes, I was in thick…

Contributors

  • NancyH

Subject

  • Bars
  • Bar tender
  • Nottingham
  • 1980s
  • United Kingdom
  • Working life
  • Industrial heritage
  • United Kingdom

Contributors

  • NancyH

Subject

  • Bars
  • Bar tender
  • Nottingham
  • 1980s
  • United Kingdom
  • Working life
  • Industrial heritage
  • United Kingdom

Providing institution

  • Europeana Foundation

Aggregator

  • Europeana Foundation

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Places

  • Nottingham
  • Nottingham
  • United Kingdom

Identifier

  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/857952c0-c0d0-0137-12b6-6eee0af55ee9

Language

  • en
  • eng

Providing country

  • Europe

Collection name

  • 125_Europe_at_work

First time published on Europeana

  • 2019-11-18T12:56:34.690Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2021-01-27T22:16:31.372Z
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