OLD INNS DOOMED
PASSING OF ANOTHER FASHION. The old-fashioned English inn is doomed, according to the London Sunday Express. It is expected that it will have disappeared for ever when the brewers' reform plan is completed by the end of this year. In its place there will arise a new type of inn where refreshment, food, music, comfortable accommodation, and dancing will be provided. The Brewers' Society in the three and a half years ended last June spent £8,613,763 on improving 6581 public houses in London alone. Late in the last century the brewers embarked upon a campaign to abolish the old-style "gin palace," and drinking dens of the old type now exist only in the crowded districts of the industrial areas. There are 21,000 fewer licensed houses in England than there were 25 years ago. In the same period convictions for drunkenness have fallen from 164,864 in one year to 51,966.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3269, 7 March 1931, Page 3
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