Excellent reporting better than MSN. In about a month the building was trashed, sold, set on fire and then bulldozed. Follow the money

The evil bastards that did this cannot be allowed to profit from it. They should go to jail The pub should be re built, brick by brick.

This country is being raped by developers and its pure greed, amazing landmarks like this pub gone forever. Thank you for this well presented video.

Disgusting mate. We all know what went on here. There needs to be a thorough criminal investigation but I won't hold my breath. The whole thing sickens me to the stomach. Really touching video and a nice tribute to the famous old pub 😪

Am I really the only one tonight who’s sat and cried over the news of its demolition tonight, it’s heartbreaking, it’s a huge part of us gone, am absolutely fuming yet sad to see this happen to our heritage xxxxx

watching this after just finding out it's been knocked down. Literally crying, lived and worked there for 4 years, met my wife, there, proposed to her there and had my son there!!! Absolutley gutted!!!!

Very sad to see this iconic building gutted. I hope that whoever is responsible for this building catching fire and burning to the ground is taken to task for destroying such an important Black Country heritage asset.

Nods and winks at the local masonic lodge with brown envelopes shifting around!!

A rare gem, one of its kind in this country lost and we all know why it happened, this broke me seeing these treasures have no protection and it being grade II listed aswell, I agree they need some kind of protection so this stuff don’t happen, it’s obviously was burnt down so it could get rid of but this beautiful building is a rare treasure and it should of stayed. I had the privilege to go here on a few occasions and one was paranormal investigation, the spirits there will be at a loss, believe it or not they exist there and will haunt whatever will be build there, karma! Thank you for posting this beautiful yet emotional video, the crooked house will always be alive there with all the memories we all have of it and whatever will be built there hope the council declines all future planning permissions that go ahead for this location and karma will come back 10 fold! Love this location, will always carry it with me

Another part of our Black Country heritage lost had some good times in the Crooked House

Absolutely devastated about this. They've actually demolished it now. No one's coming forward to claim who went in and tore it down. I hope someone suffers for it!

Lovely tribute to a well loved pub.

demolished earlier today, you can't tell me this was not all planned, wonder who gets the brown envelopes? so sad, you did your best mate

This is so sad. Had some good times in there. Would be great if it could be relocated to the Black Country Museum.

The Crooked house is one of the black countries landmarks like dudley castle, himley hall, red house glass cone, mushroom green chain shop and the bonded warehouse and i think it should be saved for future generations to come if not on it's original site. it should be moved nearby and rebuilt. there must be someone out there with the money to save it.

Thank you for this video. It was a crime. The new owners had already had the building stripped bare of lead, copper and anything of value. And then just took the p*ss. It wouldn't surprise me if any new build they tried to put up on this land suffered the same fate going by us locals feelings. Really angry and even if the law won't do anything about it the people should.

Imagine this building has stood the test of time standing for 259 years but couldn't survive the absolute scum that blight our lives in these unfortunate times we are living in today

Well done on the video mate . Your passion shines mate 👍

Good video bud , your views are crazy well done mate on that aswell. Something definitely odd about all this shame it's been demolished

Those closing words were beautiful!! Propa bloke!!!

Great video mate, have you heard about the antique grandfather clock that was taken out of the pub two days before it was set on fire seems to be too much of a coincidence. They take out the valuables just before it burns down how can people get away with these sort of things money talks i suppose. What a shame though i was in there not long before it closed to many places are being lost and once they are gone that's it we lose all our heritage . Thanks again jab for the video

Sad to see, I remember it well. I agree with you entirely, it's obviously well dodgy. won't hold my breath that the truth comes out or anything gets done.

Their needs to be law, If a listed building suddenly bursts into flame , a no build/ development order on remaining site for 25 years. Take the incentive to torch it away. I know a few pubs that have self combustion, all listed...

Its been shown on BBC Midlands news just that the road to the pub was deliberatelky blocked by tipper lorry loads of soil being dumped across it to prevent the fire engines reaching it. That does not 'just happen' - it was very clearly premeditated and would require a fair degree of organisation. So who is most likely to benefit from such activity, leading to the destruction of a Grade 11 listed building which has just changed hands? Think about it.......

This is likely to have been done so houses or buildings can he built in the site. Planning permission for old buildings to be demolished is usually denied. We had one 200 Yr old victorian large building that building contractors wanted gone. Building was listed so not allowed to demolish it. The very next week or so it spontaneously combusted. What was left demolished 4 or 5 houses were built on the site within a year.

Such a crying shame, had some great times there 🥲

Such a shame I went past Sunday morning but the road was closed off another loss to the Black Country.

As a Gornal bloke born and bread it’s very upsetting for me to see this. The history of this place encompasses what the Black Country was and is, for it to be burnt out then demolished is just wrong. Let’s hope the individuals who caused this meet a similar fate.

There is a Victorian villa on Marton Road on the outskirts of Middlesbrough it was where E W Hornung was brought up he was the author of the Raffles novels, it became the head office of an engineering company in the 1980s and now it stands empty I'm just waiting for it to mysterious burn down overnight like so many other on that road only to be replaced by flats and care homes.

Gutted I only live 2 miles away 😢,was my 50th aswell on Saturday sad day to remember 😢

Great tribute mate 😢

Stood for 258 years and was sold to private buyer and now it's go strange 🤔

Want to see the Crooked House rebuilt? It CAN be done ! Check out the Carlton Tavern in Maida Vale, London which HAS BEEN totally and exactly rebuilt after it was demolished without permission in 2015

Well said and done Jamie.

Our Heritage as a Country Being Destroyed bit by bit by people who don't give a damn about anything other than a quick profit. Let's hope the new builds don't suffer a similar fate

Nice one mate HAD SOME GOOD TIMES THERE.....CROWEMAN

Of course it was arson.

So sad, years of history gone.

Thanks for the brilliant video. I wish you had been able to do a follow up video, after it had been demolished.

Although im all the way in new zealand. Still heartbreaking to see. Wish they try and restore it

I really like all your videos they are so interesting & I enjoy all your videos aswell save the crooked house save the crooked house

Oh no, so sad.

Well if it was found out that the crooked house was deliberately burnt down isn't that an offence of Arson

It is so sad to see this beautiful pub like this however we need to find a way to fight this to have it rebuilt and get it done the black country way 👍

Great video. Thank you

The developer might get poetic justice

I'd never heard if it till it was on the morning news about 2 weeks ago.

Was gutting seeing that. Being a brummy from small heath now in leamore Walsall seen mant pubs that mysterious burn down. 😒😔. Dif subject. Have you ever been to Linley wood? The troll of the wood? Sounds crazy I know. But I saw an old story after as kids 6 of us seeing something then forgetting it. Years later I Google what I saw and found a story that it was really a witnessed thing there by multiple people in past.

Mate you're going to go far.great vid 😊👊👍

I would tell people as far away as Coventry that I was from Gornal and they would immediately say Crooked House , should be rebuilt we cannot allow criminals to benefit from this . If it’s not it should be ring fenced and never allowed to be built on so it’s a permanent pain in the backside to them .

A new company had taken over and bought this.. BEFORE THE FIRE?? I went past the other day an it's been flattened now?? Insurance job by greedy rich people who have no connection to our aera.. This building should have been listed as its legendary in the Blackcountry👍👍

Such a shame. Loved visiting here 😢

They've found links between the owners and the people who rented the demolishing equipment 😢 It's a shame the BCLM have no interest in this place either

Jamie can you do an abandoned building on moor street? Just down the road from the old library past the bridge and by the moor fryer there is and abandoned building there.

And the old grandfather clock!!!!! Where’s it gone? Apparently removed a few days before fire, find this and you’ve got the culprit 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉also trace the digger hiree!!!

A well reported video, The man circled at 5:43 was reported as saying he was looking for his dog, I can't see a dog lead in his hands, he seems more interested in the windows, look forward to any updates.

The senior police and politicians are connected to these businessmen so it’s doubtful the culprits will be brought to justice.

The people that did this make me sick, i hope they get sent down and the cost of the rebuild bankrupts them.

The 2 Leicestershire-based scumbags arrested by plod need sorting if they, as many think, were the protagonists. By sorting I mean charged, tried and if guilty, forced to pay for a re-build.

Hello black Country History hunter from Laura

Since when does a thriving pub close down, its decor was like a nightmare from the 60s and there was not enough customers to make a living, to late to get sentimental now !

So sad it was a unique building 😢

PRINCIPLE!!!!

Rich people always get what they want... cus they can buy their way out of jail . this was clearly set on fire by the poeple who want it gone ! 🤨

Such a horrible crying shame that this as happened to such an iconic public house… I’m 100% convinced this is at the hands of arsonists… I hope they get turned down for building houses on the land. They should sink with the developer along with it!!

You are totally missing the point. There has been no planning consent for demolition so what's happened is illegal. Apart from that, thanks for the video.

Hope they charge the (new) owner with arson this is a disgrace 😢

Were you aware that the JCB which will be used to knock it down was ordered three days before it was set alight! Sounds like a case of arson, obstructing the emergency services etc.

no names no backtrack ,,, i worked in the reservation of listed properties ,,,, legislation is a pain in the #### cant do this cant do that cost is astronomical so one way out seen this done ,,," you fire it,,,, fire the heat generates destroys all building materials ( brick,,,concrete,,, steel,,,, so then the bulldozers move in a building shell can be restored . a pile of rubble cant,,,, then you sell the rubble to road building contactors the you can build your "new builds what ever,,,,, job done .. lovely jubbly ever ones a winner sometimes?????

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its going to be "ATE farms" so I think