Up until 1982, there was a centenary British law that stated that women weren’t allowed to be served in pubs on their own. They had to sit on a table and have their drinks ordered by a male companion. This only changed in November 1982, after lawyer Tess Gill and journalist Anna Coote were banned from El Vino pub on Fleet Street, London, for standing with their male colleagues at the bar, rather than sitting at the tables that women were confined to. They took their case to the Court of Appeal, where the ban was lifted and the centenary law scrapped, in a landmark ruling. A massive win for women, who could no longer be refused service in pubs….
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