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By Jimmy McIntosh

Mr. McIntosh runs the Instagram account @londondeadpubs and is the editor of Sir! Magazine. He wrote from London.

One afternoon some weeks ago, a little after 1 p.m., groups of office workers — a mass of navy quarter-zips and smart-casual suits — huddled together in the dim mahogany-paneled main room of the Devonshire, a pub tucked behind the Piccadilly Circus tube station in central London.

Almost all of them had backpacks at their feet........

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