'A nice dive' — Glue Pot Pub set to say goodbye

David Raynor sat at the copper-topped bar of the Glue Pot Pub on a recent afternoon, reading a book and nursing a beer, one of the last he’ll have there. A retired university professor, Raynor only rediscovered the bar a few months ago, after a long absence, and he now comes six days a week, making the half-hour bus ride from his home in Blackburn Hamlet.
“It’s not upscale,” he says. “A lot of people don’t like upscale. People like this … I don’t