Back to the Local

As a little gem of a book published in 1949 shows, your local boozer has been under threat for a long time.

There’s an initiative happening this Saturday 10 February called Support an Independent Pub Day which has been launched by Alistair von Lion, aka the London Pub Explorer, one half of the duo behind the excellent East End Pubs book I wrote about last year, and CityStack. The latter is a company founded by Alison Boutoille, a lady from France of all place…