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Triumph of good over evil

Change and decay in all around I see

I had an e-mail  asking me if someone could use one of  my Flickr photos, of a pub in Camden, the Hawley Arms. I said yes, as they promised to attribute it, as I publish my photos using a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 licence.
I am puzzled by the current popularity of the pub. I have not set foot in it for twenty years, but in my day it was agreeably dirty, loud and unfashionable. On the visit when I took the photographs, as I remarked in the photograph captions, it was closed for refurbishment, not a word that would have come to mind in connection with the old Hawley.
Now, as witness this by the Observer's Cocktail Girl, it seems to have become all the rage with the jeunesse dorée.