The Story
Vic Naylor on St John Street was a Clerkenwell institution through the 1990s — a bar-restaurant that planted itself on the ancient drove road between Islington and Smithfield and became a fixture for the media, design and City crowd that was reshaping the area. Named after a real person (Victor Naylor, a local character), it had the lived-in feel of somewhere that mattered to its regulars. St John Street was changing fast around it — the Bleeding Heart, St John restaurant, the new creative industries setting up in old warehouse spaces — and Vic Naylor was part of that story.
Ghost Hunter mode reveals 500+ closed and demolished pubs on the PINtPOINT radar — each one a room that once poured pints on that exact street corner.