English Bikes in the UK

Despite German-Irish ancestry and a German surname, I grew up in an Anglophile family-must have the 2 World Wars. In my youth I recall meeting a friend of the
Family who "had served in the RAF"-that made him 10 feet tall to a 7 year old.
Anyhow, I acquired a taste for the "English Racer" (yes, I know) that 50 years
later I still, devote some of my cycling time to riding, restoring, and rescuing them. Are these bikes still in use in the UK or are they seen as passe, old hat,
with a "cloth cap image" to use a line from Tony Hadlund's book on Sturmey Archer. I know the British cycling industry has fallen on hard times, Sturmey Archer was bought out by a Taiwanese businessman, Raleigh stopped manufacturing in 2002, but the bikes last forever.