Bristol Live readers - including locals and regulars - have backed a South Bristol pub after the landlord issued a new 'family policy' which requires parents to make sure their children stay in their seats while they are in the pub.
The Victoria Park pub in the Windmill Hill area of Bedminster said it was politely requesting the new rules after several 'minor injuries' of children who were running around the pub and its garden prompted a health and safety evaluation.
The new rules echoed a similar set of conditions imposed pre-pandemic by the Hen & Chicken on North Street on the other side of Bedminster, which told parents they had to keep their children at the tables, and also banned children after 7pm. While that prompted quite the debate among parents, pub-goers and parents who are pub-goers, the stance taken by the Victoria Park in 2023 was almost universally backed by Bristol Live readers.
