2024-12-23T04:44:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/137427920/photographing-5-000-pubs-in-london Julia Ingalls 2015-09-25T05:44:00-04:00 >2015-09-28T23:13:37-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4p/4ptwk5f1pawnslll.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>For the past seven years, Ewan has been painstakingly researching London's pubs, both past and present, cataloguing them and taking photos before uploading details to his online database Pubology...his mission is to photograph every pub in London &ndash; although, as he tells me, it's difficult to know just how close he is to that goal.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Estimating the total number of pubs in London at somewhere around 5,000, photographer Ewan Munro has tried to draw some distinctions to limit the scope of his massive project. For example, how does one define <a href="http://salaries.archinect.com/poll/results/city/london" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">London</a>, and how does one define a pub versus a <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/59513593/budapest-s-ruin-bars" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bar</a>?</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/od/odbj1bwk7ehrtjcf.jpg"></p><p>From historic, centuries-old establishments to modern shipping container drinkeries, Munro has managed to assemble an impressive architectural <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/82949/search-the-life-photo-archive-on-google-images" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">archive</a> of pub photos: cheers to that.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/xa/xapznbpd9csgsdne.jpg"></p>