London, The Wall Worker c.1880
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The public house has long been a vital constituent of city life. Here customers could relax after the day's toil with a tankard of porter. In the Victorian era the tavern became the exclusive haunt of the poor. The coming of the notorious gin-houses, combined with Victorian prudery and fears of vice, encouraged the more well-to-do to frequent safer restaurants and hotels. As Dickens pointed out: 'Gin drinking is a great vice in England'. The simple pleasures of a pot and a pipe wre largely ousted.
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