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Comment Not London, but... (Score 2) 97

I grew up in a village with four pubs for about 3000 people. My parents have moved, so I haven't been back for about 15 years, but it was down to one pub then. I think a big factor was the bypass, which also killed off the local antique shops. Back in the day people driving through the village might stop to browse the shops and have lunch: now they barely realise it's there.

Comment Re:No money, no friends (Score 2) 97

It is. And the sport is named after a public* school which is named after its town.

* I.e. fee-paying. In England the term predates the existence of state schools by centuries, and denotes a school to which anyone with money could send their son, in distinction with private schools which might be one master teaching the children of one family.

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