In London, lounge bars are also called saloon bars. Doesn't quite sound like the place Ladies were sent to drink does it? Maybe it was a corruption of Salon?

I always get confused with imperial liquid measures other than pints or half pints. Though I remember you got a sixth of a gill for a spirit measure, that's where you lose me. A couple of years after I started drinking in pubs they turned it all metric any how.

I'm a product of the change over period between imperial and metric. I measure height and length in feet and inches and volumes in litres!

TTFN M'Lady P.