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Worth noting the circle of "pubs that light on fire" and "flat roofed 1970s slum pub" almost entirely overlap. Nobodies setting fire to their thatched-roof pub
by Aromasin 9mo ago
Worth noting the circle of "pubs that light on fire" and "flat roofed 1970s slum pub" almost entirely overlap. Nobodies setting fire to their thatched-roof pub from 1650 because of pub rates. They just change hands through the breweries every 3-4 years now.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat-roofed_pub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat-roofed_pub
- hdgvhicv 9mo agohttps://news.sky.com/story/police-now-treating-fire-at-historic-pub-the-crooked-house-as-arson-12936122 https://news.sky.com/story/police-now-treating-fire-at-histo... More profitable to convert the pub into a house and sell it that to actually run a pub.
- jimnotgym 9mo agoNot quite that old, but plenty of historic pubs have gone on fire https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq87x44ey9po https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq87x44ey9po