Landmark Klaxon!

[Loki]

Day 2 after the fireView attachment 8060

Game, set, and match?

 

[Sniffer]

West Midlands mayor calls for Crooked House pub to be rebuilt ‘brick by brick’

Andy Street issues plea after Britain’s ‘wonkiest pub’ reduced to rubble after being gutted by fire

www.theguardian.com

It won't happen now that its levelled to the ground but I hope that no brick is left unturned in finding out how it happened and why the lane was blocked.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Because the building couldn’t be demolished and so burning it down is very convenient if you want the land for a different use.

If you want to keep travellers out of a vacant property you are supposed to use concrete blocks as even though they weigh loads they can actually be pushed aside by a fire engine. A mound of earth is a deliberate blockage of access and it’s no shock whatsoever that the police want to speak to the new owners very urgently.

 

[Sniffer]

Because the building couldn’t be demolished and so burning it down is very convenient if you want the land for a different use.

If you want to keep travellers out of a vacant property you are supposed to use concrete blocks as even though they weigh loads they can actually be pushed aside by a fire engine. A mound of earth is a deliberate blockage of access and it’s no shock whatsoever that the police want to speak to the new owners very urgently.

I don't know the area but was the lane that was blocked part of the properties land or was it a public road?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

As I remember it the whole lane is access land for the pub alone. At least I can’t remember anything else down there. It’s definitely not a public road as it is gated.

 

[sycophantia]

Nah not a road, about a quarter mile or so dirt/gravel track, or it was last time I went down it, just to the pub. It was a farmhouse originally.

 

[Sniffer]

I saw the pictures of a playground next to it and just thought that there would be public access via a road to it.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Nah - that’s just the beer garden.

 

[Keef]

Video footage on social media of a digger knocking the pub down, lane still blocked so don’t know how it got down there, but the site next door has one, apparently the interior was stripped out just after selling so it couldn’t be used as a pub.
It’s just getting dodgier and dodgier

 

[b3h]

Video footage on social media of a digger knocking the pub down, lane still blocked so don’t know how it got down there, but the site next door has one, apparently the interior was stripped out just after selling so it couldn’t be used as a pub.
It’s just getting dodgier and dodgier

Along the track from the quarry who now own the pub/plot of land..?

 

[SSB]

If you look at the drone footage after the fire, the digger was already parked up next to the gutted pub. Looking on Facebook there are thousands of posts in the various local groups. It’s upset a lot of people.

 

[leedswolf]

Game, set, and match?

Could it have been another source of ignition?

 

[AndyWolves]

Band with unfortunate name address 'awful coincidence' over gig at fire-hit pub

The country duo had been booked to play at the Himley Road pub on the night of the fire

www.google.com

Incredible coincidence

Apologies for the amp link

 

[Sniffer]

Britain's 'wonkiest pub' - as it was in 1974

The Crooked House, destroyed in a fire on Saturday, proved a hit with BBC Nationwide almost 50 years ago.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[lemonjelly]

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news...e-treating-fire-at-crooked-house-pub-as-arson

 

[Johnny75]

So the police are treating the fire at the crooked house as arson now.

 

[Keef]

New owner is the wife of the owner of the landfill site next door, who had been arguing with Marstons over access roads both to the pub and his site.

 

[Stan Hullis]

hopefully they get sent to prison

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

And get slammed with a huge insurance bill as well.

 

[SSB]

New owner is the wife of the owner of the landfill site next door, who had been arguing with Marstons over access roads both to the pub and his site.

Call me an cynic, but I don’t think the story would have gained as much traction in the papers (esp the Daily Mail) if the pub hadn’t been purchased by a bikini clad blonde “jet-setter”

Definitely something a foot though from the digging the local Facebook groups have been doing through the various companies owned by the individuals in question.