Actually, hardly anyplace in Europe has air conditioning.
At least from my experience in many hotels, restaurants, and other places I was at during the great heat wave in 2003. That's Europe, not England.
Also, public buildings rarely have accommodations for handicapped--if we had brought my wife's electric wheelchair we would have been screwed. As it is, I carried her foldable regular chair up and down many stairs.
Public drinking fountains? Forget it. Fortunately, there were many bottled water salesmen. Mostly from Africa and the Middle East. Public toilets on the streets have attendants who want cash to buy a ticket to pee. I still have one on my bulletin board.
Hmmm. Now that I think about it, it's just the sort of things you might see in a strongly capitalist society. ;)