Kingsland

Status: Closed and demolished
Address: 161-165 Kingsland Road, E2 8AL (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Hackney
Former name(s): Korsan Bar
Plaza
Royal Standard
Former address: [or 165 Kingsland Road]
Historical parish: Shoreditch
Dates open: by 1960-c2013
demolished 2014
Good Beer Guide: [Royal Standard:] 1981-1983
Owner: Enterprise Inns (former)
Whitbread (former)
Young's (former)
Notes: This pub probably took its name from the nearby "Royal Standard" at 7 Flemming St (N1, street no longer exists, see separate entry). The older pub was 30m to the south-west. Renamed as the "Plaza" in 2005, as "Korsan Bar" in 2008, and as the "Kingsland" in 2012.
Photo taken in March 2008
Sources: Close date/Renaming: WhatPub
Demolished date: Tris C (e-mail)
London Drinker U228/WP19
OS 1960/1975
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