A 100-year-old London pub was illegally demolished in 2015 by greedy developers who wanted the land.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

A 100-year-old London pub was illegally demolished in 2015 by greedy developers who wanted the land. They were ordered to rebuild it exactly as it was, brick by brick. The Carlton Tavern was the only building on the street that wasn't destroyed during the Blitz in World War II.

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[LakeArenal]

1. I'm confused. Is that the rebuilt tavern?

With loose shingles on the roof?

[barbtries]

3. Can't tell by the picture,

but i googled and it reopened in 2021.

[leftieNanner]

4. I think it might be

a before photo.

[Backseat Driver]

2. I think the damage was already done in 2015?

but that order to rebuild a neighborhood corner pub that way, brick for brick, does sound like a "community service" to historic pint lovers who remember...though it likely would never be exactly the same as social settings change?

[localroger]

5. Things are a bit different in Europe

On my one trip across the pond to England, I visited three pubs that had been in continuous operation since before the US was founded, one for nearly 500 years in a series of vaulted caverns beneath the hill atop which sat a 900-year old castle which was still in use as a courthouse and prison. (They gave tours of the castle too.)

[whistler162]

6. Re-establushed in 2021

https://carltontavern.co.uk/