Time please!

This is what you call a pub,until that is they became either noisy pleasure palaces or dens of crime and cheap booze. With so many distractions available today it is easy to forget that a pub was for hundreds of years the centre of life (church too perhaps) for so many communities. I hope somebody can keep the pub in the article going without turning it into some tawdry tourist attraction, as I like to know that some little bits of old England still have a place in today's world.