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"Boring? Or just nice and quiet?" #OnThisDay 1957: Panorama reported on the British Sunday, when shops and theatres were closed and most sporting activities prohibited. Was it time to relax some of these laws?
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This isn't boring at all. This sounds like heaven.

Now everyone must worship the consumer /money gods. A proper day for reflection and rest would be a good idea. Just think how mental health and family cohesion woupd be improved.

Sundays were great. Sunday lunch then tea with grandmother and my aunts, uncles & cousins. Great family time. Watching Worzel Gummidge, Ski Sunday & Bullseye

Even today all shops in Germany are mandated by law to close on Sundays.

I'm old enough to remember when shops closed on a Sunday & many did on Wednesdays too. Nobody died!!!

Sundays used to take a week to go by when I was a kid. Nothing but ski Sunday and bullseye. Also half day closing on Wednesday, don't see that anymore.

Who the heck nowadays wants to work for 7 days a week?

Anthony Aloysius Hancock on Sundays; "It's not like this on the Continent. It's their big day over there. All the cafes open and football matches and race meetings, everybody's gay!! Not over 'ere though! Everything's shut up."

I find it odd that they talk of foreigners’ bemusement, when nearly 70 years later much of continental Europe (which, presumably, is largely who they were talking about) continues to observe similarly stringent restrictions!

Remember the soul-crushing boredom of 1960s Sundays…

