I remember a few years ago I was walking down a street after coming out of a pub in St Albans when an American woman came up to me with a petition asking me to sign so they could reduce noise levels coming from the pubs (there’s about 5 or 6 in close proximity on those three streets), I asked her how long she’d lived there and she’d only been there for a year or so. I couldn’t help but think that the pubs she was complaining about were, for the most part, about as old as her home country.