Joiners Arms Open Pre Match On Sunday

Save the traditional British pub by popping into the Joiners Arms before the game against Newcastle on Sunday.

Go to any city, town or even village in the country and the traditional pub is under threat, they are closing down at a rate of knots as the chain pub takes over and greedy corporate companies that own large pub chains push up the price of a pint making it more of a rare treat than an affordable pleasure.

The Joiners Arms in St Mary's Street is under threat as much as anybody and stands as a shining beacon, but that might not be the case for too much longer, like anyone it needs more trade and with that in mind is going to now open before and after Saints home games.

The pub is a dying breed in Southampton, an old Victorian boozer that has neither succumbed to the 21 century pub interior designers nor lost any of its charm, in short a place for drinkers rather than families having a meal, but hey there are plenty of places you can go for that, all too few where the pub atmosphere still exists.

So keep the British pub alive by popping down to the Joiners on Sunday and indeed at all Saints home games from now on, you may think your contribution may be small, but in these days of spiralling rents, a good crowd in the Joiners having a few pints is probably the difference between keeping a Southampton instituition open and it being another statistic in the list of closing traditional British pubs.

Paul Heaton ex of the Housemartins & The Beautiful South did his bit for the cause on Thursday and Frank Turner is playing over Xmas to help bring in the cash to keep the place open, OK drinking habits are changing in the 21st century, but lets keep our pub tradition alive.    

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