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by Aromasin 148 days 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

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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.

Not quite that old, but plenty of historic pubs have gone on fire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq87x44ey9po