Crooked House site has become a fly-tip a year after it was destroyed
The Crooked House pub site has been left an ‘environmental disaster’ after being targeted by fly tippers a year after it was destroyed.
Britain’s wonkiest pub took the nation by storm after it was damaged in a suspected arson attack two days before it was demolished in August 2023.
The Crooked House, which operated as a pub for almost 200 years, had a unique charm as one side was 1.2m lower than the other due to a subsidence issue in the 19th century.
Campaigners who have been fighting to get the tavern rebuilt said the former location has turned into a fly-tipping hotspot, with huge piles of household waste discarded across the site and into a nearby stream.
‘Today’s visit had no fresh surprises for us both, yet more evidence of further fly tipping and a fresh dumping by the Biffa entrance,’ David Shotton who is a member of ‘Save the Crooked House – Let’s Get It Rebuilt’ posted on Facebook.
‘Further down the lane, the pilings that hold back the landfill have now finally and completely given up, and has allowed the land to surge forward, allowing contaminated soils and debris to navigate through the water stream/brook.
‘I can only describe today’s visit as an environmental disaster, the impact this will have on the local wildlife and surrounding area will no doubt suffer in the long term if nothing is done about it fairly soon.’
Six arrests have been made in connection with the incident, Staffordshire Police say, but nobody has ever been charged and all suspects have been released on bail.
The Facebook group said they had reported fly-tipping in the area on several other occasions, and are calling for the pub to be rebuilt ‘brick by brick’.
One man has actually managed to do so – but not quite how you think.
Chris Weaver, who visited the Crooked House when he was a child, spent 80 hours building a replica of the iconic structure with Lego bricks, which he says has a ’95 per cent likeness of the real thing.’
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