I was driving through Hounslow today, near where l live, and l found to my sadness so many public houses, that have closed down over recent months, and have either been turned in McDonalds, Tesco's or Polish pubs.
I think the start of the demise of these boozers was when they stopped people smoking in them, and that is when trading stopped.
Its a great shame that the British boozer is going down the plug hole - do pun intended.