The British Pub is Being Killed Quickly

Not, alas, a very surprising story. The worst pub "interior desecrations" are when they put in a fake historic interior, with photos of pub cricket teams that never existed, fishing rods that probably never caught a fish, reproduced Times headlines announcing the German invasion of Poland or Queen Victoria's death...it's always very discouraging. It's what happened to all the Morrell's pubs when they got bought up by Thomas Hardy Brewery in '99 (and now I see that Hardy has folded, and Greene King has swallowed up the Morrell's pubs, and who can keep track anymore?).