The glory has faded, too

The glory has faded, too, from The Starboard Side; only a true devotee can still detect even a last faint gleam of it. The place has been stripped of its dusty marine trophies and yellow group-photographs. Right after the New Year it's to be what they dare to call redecorated; that's to say, desecrated in readiness for next summer's mob of blank faced strangers.