Food and Rationing
                       Langham Parish Council Minutes 8 July 1917
                                                                                                      Under the Defence of the
                                                                                                      Realm Act, ‘No Treating Rule’
                                                                                                      it became an offence to
                                                                                                      buy someone a drink in
                                                                                                      our three public houses.
                                                                                                      This was enacted to deter
                                                                                                      excessive drinking by the
                                                                                                      workers.
                         Langham Parish Council Minutes 9 January 1917