People who have lived in a place for centuries often hold eccentric, old, downright obsolete facilities in higher regard than people who hav4e just moved in and have no links to the place. Example: a centuries-old pub was sold to a developer. It was signed up for historic protection, but before the paperwork could go through a pile of rubble was mysteriously dumped into the road leading to it. And then it mysteriously caught fire, with the pile of rubble blocking the fire department. The brick structure remained standing, opening up the possibility of being restored; it was then very quickly razed to the ground mechanically. Gosh, I guess it’s gone, nothing left for it but to built cheap housing on the very valuable plot of land…
Police ‘reviewing all evidence’ on cause of Crooked House pub fire
Mayor calls for Crooked House pub gutted by fire to be rebuilt ‘brick by brick’
Huh. It’s a mystery.
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Well, I never ever thought I’d see The Crooked House on this Blog . . .
Believe it or not, I actually live not far from this place, and I can tell you, there will be no ‘cheap’ housing built there. The ‘developer’ will either build a ‘mansion’ for himself and his family, or more likely, a residential care home . . .
There is a possibility that he will have to rebuild the pub
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/08/west-midlands-mayor-calls-for-crooked-house-pub-to-be-rebuilt-brick-by-brick
Which could be interesting.
If that *doesn’t* happen, you couldn’t pay me to live in whatever might be built in its place. At *some* point, the indigenous populations of England and France and Sweden and the like are going to finally get fed up at their people, their lands and their cultures being violated, and they’ll turn *nasty.*