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Finally some balanced comments on this issue, as resident almost local to this museum [I live in Spitalfields] I have been trying for weeks to place a comment on a well know local blog which sadly censors comments which might offer a different perspective. In my opinion the whole argument became ridiculous when class became the central issue, and this pub was romanticised as a symbol of the East End working classes. The irony being that the proposal to preserve the pub is really terribly ‘middle class’ . . .? Furthermore where was everyone when the pub closed?? Were any of the commentators and supporters actually ever customers of the pub? Most likely not, but they propose to recreate it in their own image.? This is not about preservation but about creating a sanitized pastiche of something that is long gone, with more than a whiff of romanticism . . . While some buildings are doubtless worthy of preservation, if we are not careful we will be living in a post modern 'Disneyfication' of our past.

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