If they so choose, they can talk to the generation who may recall when Gone with the Wind was first published, when an admired Adolf Hitler became Time magazine's Man of the Year, or when prawn cocktail and black forest gateau had yet to become retro gastro chic, and cigarette smoke hung in the air of every pub and shop, like morning mist.
In The Manchester Guardian, Alistair Cooke wrote, "Stanley Holloway distils into the body of Doolittle the taste and smell of every pub in England".
Once I'd decided to take photos of every pub I had to create a database to keep them in so I knew which ones I'd taken photos of and which ones I still had to take photos of.
If any time of year feels more obvious to visit one of the greatest lyrical poets of his generation, and writer of what is ubiquitously cited as The Greatest Christmas Song Of All Time, "Fairytale of New York," it's probably the week he is croaking out of speakers in every pub, shop, and shitty Christmas party you'll go to.
You go anywhere in England, when it's not raining, and there's a cluster of people outside every pub, until ten or eleven at night, boozing.
If any time of year feels more obvious to visit the frontman of the Pogues – one of the greatest lyrical poets of his generation, and writer of what is ubiquitously cited as The Greatest Christmas Song Of All Time with "Fairytale of New York", it's probably the week he is croaking out of speakers in every pub, shop and shit Christmas party you'll go to.
According to Capital Gay, this became the 'main topic of discussion in every pub and club and over dinner tables throughout London' [ 27].
A crucially nice touch to get the ghost of Pat in at the close, a joy, in fact, to see her again: and even though I'm no fan of Barbara Windsor, possibly because I'm such an overweening snob, it was touching to slowly imagine, through her eyes, the many memories in every pub corner, of every snatch of love and of anger.
He then set up the first of the societies that to this day perform the hugely complex task of collecting money from every pub, club and radio station which uses music, distributing it to those who created it.
NPD reported that 92 out of every 100 pub visits now involve the consumption of food.
From the black-and-gold awnings over the front of every other pub, you'd think no one in Dublin drank anything but Guinness.
