Dancing is popular, especially with those under 25 years of age. It has been estimated that there are 500 ballroom on great britain, and dances and other social gatherings are often held in other halls or in club-rooms.
One traditional social rendezvous, the public house, has maintained and even increased its popularity, although there has been a marked decrease in drunkenness and in consumption of alcohol per head since the nineteenth century. A new, and in some ways rival, feature of urban life, especially in london is the coffee bar which is becomimg increasingly popular with young people. On the other hand, many people especially the married and elderly, spend much of their leisure at home-reading, listening to the radio, viewing television , or pursuing hobbies