The country pub has been hit by the severity of the drink drive laws and for the rest there were simply too many pubs for a changing world. I can remember when there were nearly two dozen pubs on and just off Cable Street in East London. There isn’t one now because the trade declined. Thirty years ago on a building site of mine in the East End myself and two guys working for me, all East Enders, were able to list thirty pubs that had closed between Aldgate and the river Lea which is the boundary of Tower Hamlets which is what we call the East End. It’s double that now.