Last night I was watching a video on YouTube which was a documentary about Blackpool Pleasure Beach, that was filmed during 1997 but aired around early 1998.
There were scenes of an indoor arena with an ice rink that was run by this arsy manager called Amanda, who seemed like a female Sergeant Major, who not only had a penchant for barking out orders aggressively but also had a fag in her gob inside said arena whilst being interviewed!
One of the park managers, a big burly bloke with a West Country accent was also an arsy 'Sgt Major'-like barsteward barking out orders and was seen smoking on screen the one time.
Finally there were a couple of male youths who got done for assaulting the girl entertainers who were dressed up as animals.
All pretty shocking stuff which would never be allowed now in these more enlightened times of the 2020s, not just the managers smoking indoors (and in front of the general public) but also the young girls who were dressed up as animals who got attacked by those youths whilst entertaining the public, plus they could barely see out of their animal outfits, so no doubt the H&S and child protection brigades of today would also be having hissy fits!
God, how times have changed!