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Business, as it has been ever since she took the bar over five years ago, is good. Morley-Doidge s family also operate a separate company brewing the cordials and now regularly supply the US, the United Arab Emirates, Europe and Japan. Here as well, demand is on the rise. It is really interesting to see how many people don t drink alcohol and are looking for something unusual and different, says the 35-year-old. As the last man standing of the temperance bars that once proliferated across the country (and particularly the north) Fitzpatrick s remains something of a novelty in the modern era.
Inside Britain’s last temperance bar – the first of a new brand of boozer
An alcohol ban in pubs is under consideration, and young people are shunning drink. Is Mr Fitzpatrick s the future of our watering holes?
20 February 2021 • 5:00pm
Ashleigh Morley-Doidge, owner of Mr Fitzpatrick’s Temperance Bar
Credit: Lorne Campbell/Guzelian
During its 122-year history, Mr Fitzpatrick’s bar in Rawtenstall has endured enough crises to turn many to drink – two world wars, the Spanish Flu pandemic, and now Covid, to name but a few. But with Britain’s hospitality trade tanking and many pubs closing their doors for good, spirits are still high at Britain’s last original temperance bar, which has stood on Bank Street in the Lancashire mill town since 1899.