Not the Crooked House now but the Crooked Owner!

No way is this an accident 😳

This is the worst heritage crime in the UK since the destruction of the organ in Wolverhampton Civic Hall.

Done on purpose. Any buildings erected there now should get demolished by vigilantes. Plant hire is heap enough.

Crying shame. Hopefully a whistleblower can come forwards, and/or a proper investigation into ATE Farms Ltd. will happen.

Apparently, the lane was blocked by a large 8' high mound of soil preventing fire service access to the pub. Hard job proving arson now pub demolished...

That it was arson cannot be any more apparent. I can only hope that some video evidence comes up. Or that the local council says 'bite me' when the new owner applies for planning permission.

I’m hoping a whistleblower comes forward and tells all, this is criminal what has been done, it’s completely broke me seeing a beautiful building being torn apart like it meant nothing, who f***in does that to an heritage rich building that is world famous and one of a kind? Hope a full through investigation goes ahead and those who done this face justice for what has happened. I’m visiting tomorrow, I was privileged to have been here and done an paranormal investigation here, it was a rarity to visit and to experience how amazing this place was, gonna miss this building big time and my daughters (along with many other kids and their next generations of kids) will never get to experience and make memories with this gorgeous building, it’s very sad and upsetting. RIP crooked house, you will always remain in our hearts and our memories and even if they rebuild it, it will never be the same 💔 xxxxxxx

The fact that it has been declared illegal is a best first step, The following steps necessary are arrest all people connected to this outrage, Imprison them for at least 10 years each and forced to pay for the restoration.

No protected building should ever be sold to a developer

Such disrespect 😢 how can they do this we need to stand till they rebuild the whole thing

I'm gutted. I had my wedding reception there in 2005. I had so many good memories there. Thanks for the video.

A shame for the people of the black country. I have been to this pub a few times lovely pub Very suspicious if you ask me that mound of soil, stopping the Fire Brigade And burning down, not long after they brought it And they soon demolished it to cover up any proper investigation I hope they get to the truth of what really happened. Very sad😢😂😂

No demolishing company would have done such bad job. These days even if allowed to demolish would have to strip down of cabling etc for recycling. This has been a splash and dash. There is something dodgy here if council had allowed.

So very gutted, saddened and shocked! An attack on the historical values of a local and very relevant past that needed to be protected 😢

Crooked owners. Council can refuse planning permission for new construction. The land is liable to subsidence remember.

Let’s hope it’s built back brick by brick. There is a slight chance of those cameras having an SD card in each. Hope you kept them so can check???

The Bastards! Who's behind this? Where do they live?

if it is found to be illegal .... the bricks are all there they can be cleaned and used to rebuild the pub .... it can be put back just the way it was .....

A pub crime, pure 'n' simple. This is disgusting, the letter you found looks like the 'K' possibly the crookedest letter, some one else found the 'C' . We are losing our pubs. There was one in Newport, that had to be knocked down during the pandemic, as it had had 3 arson attempts. I set out to make a list of 20 pubs in my area (West Yorkshire) that had gone, i got to 20 no bother, went for 30, then 40, then 50, I got to 57, I am sure I could make 60, but it was all too depressing. I remember the Royal Standard Manningham Lane Bradford had a beautiful ebony bar, funny how it all got crated up, ready for a makeover just before it got torched? About 1989. The Glen Royal Cinema (Shipley) got torched about 2012, it had been mothballed since about 1964, and was still mint inside, would have made a brilliant art house cinema, someone had other ideas, a few gallons of unleaded put paid to that. Drummonds mill (Lumb Lane)went up in about 2015. Seems we can't have nice things. Hope someone goes to jail for this travesty of heritage. council hang your heads in shame! HOABL

sad

spent many a happy evening drinking at the pub in my early days I'm from Wolverhampton but live in Cornwall now. This is a crime at should be dealt with has such, money is the bottom line to this sad story and greed and total disregard for such a historical building hope they get what they deserve

The pub was older than the USA and Australia.

Whoever is responsible should be forced to rebuild it.

This sort of secretive destruction isn't confined to the case of the Crooked House..(.RIP..) For years in the SE..decades..such practices have been rolled out, particularly targeting perceived 'historical' sites...I most sincerely hope that the People of the Black Country get justice for this crime against their community, naming and shaming the perpetrators nationally..In this endeavour your success could 'out' a too-long accepted evil...😢

Awaiting the name of the owner.🤔

R.I.P😢

Crooked as a nine bob note. Real shame. Very odd how empty pubs spontaneously combust. I guess it must be a smouldering ciggy on the bar from 20 years ago.

Just block building on the site for 40 years.

Insurance is not going to give these criminals a penny and he's also ripped out trees in the past so they do have a track record for this sort of thing

Nooooo!! I hadn't even been there yet, just assumed it would always be there!!!!!!!!!!!

So let me guess, plans to build a mosque there !

What I can't understand is why it closed down? Every time I went it was always busy ... Even if Covid reduced it's sale if can't a pub as iconic as this one back on its feet you must have very poor marketing skills

Someone is going to have fun trying to rebuild a crooked house .

I predict all the ghosts will come together and destroy anything that gets built in its place.

I wish people were as supportive of what has happened to Ayr's Station Hotel just this week. A massive Victorian French style landmark building that the local council wanted to have demolished despite offers to restore it and return it to use from people who have done the same elsewhere. SAVE Britains Heritage carried out a survey and published a report which says the building is in nowhere near as bad a condition as the council was making it out to be, and that the building was structurally sound and able to be restored, this is followed a few days later by a large article in the Scottish Herald newspaper in support of restoring the building, and highlighting the building's importance. On that very same day, the article is published, the building, in particular the section the council wanted to have demolished, burns to the ground.... lo and behold... 3 teenagers who can't be named are apparently arrested for it... nothing fishy going on there eh....

I am really sickened about this and i live 350 miles away i was in this pub once maybe twice in my times i have been in the wolverhampton area the last i was down about 2013 the was open until late afternoon i left to get a bus back to wolverhampton from near the Dudley Arms which is quite a walk if you have a walking stick to help you walk the think i feel also sad about is the grandfather clock being destroyed in all this i really do hope they can rebuild this pub and the owners/arsonists are put in jail for at least 20 years

It's on a nice big plot . No doubt a few houses will be built on it

You should check with the council see who spoke to them about the demolition and how quick after the fire follow the money you will find out

Oh my gosh!

My friend Brittany investigating it all

This is still upsetting days later, it had a lovley character, it deserved to live, digusting treament

Time to round up all the crooks who bought the Crooked House and all the minions who burned and knocked it down, right down to the ones who blocked access with mudheaps. Every last crook named, shamed and locked up.

Arrest the developer and confiscate the land!

This is getting to regular an occurrence, people need to get long sentences for this.

Used digger to block roads day before, Fire set, no chance 🔥 of firebrigade being able to stop it due to illegal barricade, digger used to level remains/evidence 🤔, and exit whilst covering tracks 👣 🤔 😳 😉

Taking away heritage without a second thought.

There are horrible brutalist buildings from the 60's that are listed. I find it astounding this wasn't

Not Arson, it was an accident.The mud piles blocking the fire service were there because a lorry dumped its load by accident. Someone working on the building removed windows, which allowed air flow, that must be an oversight. The digger used to demolish the building was booked a week before the fire for another job nearby on the owners land that he had access problems to because the building was in the way. That's just a coincidence. They removed items of value before the fire started, very lucky in hindsight. The buyer had some bad luck this week. Good job he can now get access to his other business. Otherwise, this would be a total loss 🤔

If houses or building are built there within a year. There's your arsonist.

😡😡😡😡 SAY NO MORE

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This is obviously criminal.

Disrespectful

I wonder vacuous building replaces it

Torn down to destroy the evidence of arson

that mound of dirt has been there since the pub was sold by marstons ,so the firebrigade could not get to the fire ,a fly over of the site just after the fire every building was fired ,its a fire it and flatten job,,the amount of land the crooked house sits on is a good size and it was smack bang in the middle of it ,a developers nightmare the police and fire depot said it was arson ,the developers had a duty of care of that building ,so they will have to rebuild it,,i bet they didnt think locals would kick off over a pub ,opps wrong ,

if all these people had turned up on a regular basis the pub wouldn't have shut,

Carly TAYLOR

Something crooked happened 👀👀👀👀

Owners have to rebuild, but want to on other land. Hopefully that won't happen. Serve the greedy ATE farms right. A sad sight.

a dastadly act of mean spirited profiteering- be it destroying of our pubs or paving over the counryside, this bug minded human rot can't be humoured! destruction of moral and memory- hope those guys get tared and feathered to say the least.

Bet it would be rebuilt if it was a Mosque

It really wasn't a viable business though was it? Id like to know exactly how many people who are bleating have been there and spent more than ten pounds.

Probably planning to put a mosque on it

Cheers man...

Check that dodgy cow out Carly

They think because they are rich laws don't apply to them.

Beer were crap anyway 🤣😂🤣. 👽