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“The White Knight [in Crawley]… is a common type done extremely well, not so much in its architecture as in its atmosphere, which seems to hit off exactly the balance of friendliness and circumstance which a New Town pub needs. If there was less fretting over architecture and more over atmosphere our towns would be better places.”

From*Modern Buildings in London, London Transport, 1964
We used a line from this in a piece we wrote about Nairn*available in*Back of a Beer Mat, our free e-book collecting various*beer-related ‘longreads’.
QUOTE: Ian Nairn on Pub Atmosphere from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Beer blogging since 2007, covering real ale, craft beer, pubs and British beer history.


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