I worked in Temple Avenue at the end of Bouverie Street when The Sun was still printed there. You would pass lorries loaded with newsprint as you walked in to work.

I never used The Harrow. The Witness Box in The Temple was the closest pub. A lot changed. The Old King Lud at Ludgate Circus was relaunched with lots of ales but is now no longer a pub. The Punch Tavern was split in two. A new Fullers pub called the Bank of England opened by The Royal  Courts of Justice. Fullers do seem to have increased the number of pubs they have. The Harrow was not Fullers when I worked around the corner.

I believe that several Fleet Street pubs have fairly recently gone - the Poppinjay; The King and Keys; The Cartoonist & The Globe (Shoe lane); The George and The Rumboe (Old Bailey); Serjeants (Old Mitre Court); The White Swan and the White Horse and The Printer's Devil (Fetter Lane); White Swan (Tudor Street). All chaps want at lunchtime these days seems to be a Pret a Manger sandwich with 'lite' mayo, and a cappuccino made with skimmed milk. Gone are the days of 'lunch in a bottle'.

The Red Lion in Duke of York Street is a listed building, which gives it some (not copper-bottomed) protection.

That said I went to The Dog and Bell in Deptford on Friday* to meet some South East London friends. It is a fine pub. However most of the  pubs in Deptford High Street have closed. The shops cater to the majority African and Vietnamese residents. They are not big beer drinkers. However if you like fish there are more wet fish shops than any other part of London outside Billingsgate.

* The bar billiards table was out of order - but at least Andrew Gilligan was not in the pub

http://www.greenwich.co.uk/andrew-gilligan/deptford/

My home town just lost its last independent newsagent\sweet shop\tobacconist and most of the small traders have folded up their tents. Their old shops are given over to banks, building societies, charity shop, mobile phone shops, sportswear-tat shops and estate agents and the supermarkets ring the town like the robber barons that they are.

Coffee shops too. As Belloc said:

"When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves,
for you will have lost the last of England."

And I am very pleased and proud to be a part of 'a funny old lot'!