London politics
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1 week agoBattle to protect 300-year-old pub
Residents seek ACV designation to preserve the 1720-founded Black Horse Pub from potential sale and redevelopment after its September closure.
Deep in the grimy, dimly lit back roads of King's Cross is a pub, a boozer in the truest sense of the word. McGlynn's, it's called, and when its landlord Jerry died in 2023, the pub died with him; it became just another ex-pub in a city full of ex-pubs. It was a special, unique place, a surviving slice of pre-gentrification London where you could still get a round in without taking out a mortgage,