Crooked House campaigners ‘elated’ after ‘wonkiest pub’ ordered to be rebuilt

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00:00 We've gone from absolute elation, busting out with smiles, to the realisation,

00:07 and yeah, to the other part of the spectrum it's been quite tearful.

00:12 I'm not afraid to admit it, you know, this has been six months of hard graft,

00:17 you know, not just by me, but from the rest of the team, by the community.

00:22 You know, we've got Marco Longhi, we've got Sir Gavin Williamson, Safe South Council,

00:26 you know, they've all been working extremely hard and this is the accumulation of all that work,

00:31 and it's almost like a relief that we've actually got what we wanted and what we set out to do.

00:36 If you've been there, it just captures you.

00:39 The pub itself, the way that it's unique, it just gets to you.

00:45 You know, driving down the lane, turning the corner, seeing the building poking out of this weird slant,

00:53 and coming in and just becoming completely dazed and dizzy just by walking to a building.

00:58 There's no other building like it anywhere, it's completely unique.

01:02 And obviously, seeing the scenes of the fire that hit home,

01:08 seeing the scenes the next day of a burnt out shell, there was hope.

01:13 Then seeing that clips of the bulldozer just completely randomly tearing at it, that was devastation.

01:19 And that was the point where something needed to be done.

01:22 Not only myself, but the few of us stood up and said, "Right, we can't let this happen."

01:27 And the community backed us 100%.

01:29 Because it was part of our heritage, it was part of us.

01:33 We all had a little bit of the crooked house within us.

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