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More than 100 locals gathered near the rubble of the Crooked House in Dudley on Tuesday, 8 August, to lament the historic pub’s destruction.

The well-known 18th-century pub was extensively damaged by a fire on Saturday evening and was later demolished.

South Staffordshire Council is investigating potential breaches of the law over the total demolition of the pub.

A former landlord of the pub, Tom Catton, said his life would have been very different without the Crooked House.

“It means so much to us this place. This is where I met [my wife.] I proposed to her here,” he said.

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00:08 And we had all sorts of ideas about what we're gonna try and
00:11 do to make sure that the place stayed as a pub.
00:14 Next thing is it was burning down and we saw the news coming through.
00:19 And then after that, it was sort of what happens now.
00:25 And of course, the next day or two days later, yesterday,
00:28 we suddenly found out it had been flattened as well.
00:31 >> It's just been absolutely crazy, it really has.
00:34 Save the crooked house, and now it's called Save the Crooked House,
00:37 get it rebuilt.
00:38 It was just a shock on Saturday to find out it was on fire.
00:44 Absolutely devastating.
00:46 I talk about it, I can get emotional.
00:50 >> Gutted, absolutely gutted.
00:52 It means so much to us, this place.
00:54 This is where I met my wife, Laura.
00:57 I proposed to her here, we had our first kid here.
01:00 So it holds a lot of memories, even after 15 years away, it means a lot, a lot to us.
01:05 We've got a lot of memories, haven't we?
01:06 >> Yeah, life would have been very different without this place,
01:08 it's awfully different, so.

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