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So many pubs in East London boarded up, turned into restaurants, apartments, shity hotels, shops etc. I see this all over - in Stepney, Canning Town, Silvertown, Maryland, Leyton, Leytonstone and Walthamstow.
Partly, it's a community thing. Some pubs were so hermetic and frankly shit, that they imploded, because the patrons were so broke they preferred a tin of White Lightning outside. Also, where the majority of people are Muslims, the hypocrisy takes over. They do drink and smoke weed, but it's not socially acceptable to do it in public.
The only thing to do is to support your local and perhaps petition to your MPs to preserve the local history.