• THE Carpenter’s Arms in King’s Cross, listed by Camden Council as an asset of community value (ACV), is to be renamed The Racketeer and run by people calling themselves Gin and Ignorance, (Pub at centre of closure battle turned into ‘neighbourhood cocktail bar’, June 8). 

The new managers said: “We have tried to bring back some of the building’s unique and beautiful original features with a keen nod to its Victorian roots, having been a drinking establishment since the late ­1800s”.

So, a beautiful old Victorian pub has had its floor, mirrors and tiles preserved but is now a noisy, expensive, cocktail bar with “no place for darts, quiz nights, or elderly local people”.

A lovely old pub with no lovely old locals in it. Where is the community value in that?

ROGER ELLIOTT
Makepeace Avenue, N6