I don’t know when it started.
I don’t know how it started.
But I do know that today London is covered with pubs that have very fancy exteriors.
I took this snap on my second visit to London:
But then I quickly realized that just about every pub had a pretty exterior, such as this one:
And this one:
At this point I stopped taking snaps of pubs. If they are all like this, I am sure there are coffee table books that can do a better job at capturing them than me!