Tony Jefferies shows off the hat he has made based on the demolished Crooked House pub.

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Tony Jefferies shows off the hat he has made based on the demolished Crooked House pub. Tony is campaigning to get the Crooked House pub rebuilt in the spot it was demolished.

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00:00OK Tony, so we're here at the site of where the Crooked House once stood, by the sign

00:04by the main road, and you've got your Crooked House hat here that you've made, haven't you?

00:10That's correct, yes.

00:11And it's, you know, you wear it everywhere, don't you, when you're campaigning for the

00:15rebuilding of the Crooked House?

00:16I do when I'm campaigning, yes.

00:17I must put one thing right, the model of the Crooked House was made by Chris Weaver.

00:23Right.

00:24The rest of the stuff, the extras, are made by me.

00:28Got you.

00:29It's fantastic.

00:30And you've really added to it now, haven't you?

00:32You've got the...

00:33I've had my own ideas, I've thought about it over and over again, it's been a lot of

00:38mental work.

00:39Yeah.

00:40A lot of mental work.

00:41I bet it has.

00:42I've spent up to 14 hours a day, goodness me, for the months that entailed putting all

00:48these extras on.

00:49Because you've got the beer glasses there, and...

00:51I've got the beer glasses.

00:52And you've even got the wheel on the side, haven't you?

00:53Oh, I've got the wheel, the water wheel.

00:55The water wheel on the side, it actually goes round and round.

00:58The benches even turn round, I've got the trees, I've got the lights at the front there.

01:02And you've got the lights on the front, you've got the lights on the roof.

01:05It's fantastic.

01:06So how long has it taken you, you say, to build?

01:10It's taken me a month to build, actually, at the gates, and without these, I spent an

01:21extra three days making the gates, putting the lights in, and I decided to spend another

01:29two days, I'll bring it round to the camera, where I added these lights at the back.

01:35Oh, at the back, yeah, fantastic.

01:36So I'll tell you that, it's taken me about seven weeks, right, but a lot of mental work.

01:41Absolutely.

01:42A lot of mental work.

01:43Now also, you've made some videos, haven't you, some films, sorry, about the crooked

01:48house.

01:49Yes, it's to do with the crooked house, all the films I've made, there's ten altogether.

01:56There's one called the longest, sorry, there's one called Crooked House Longest Video, which

02:04instead of having separate links, I've compiled them all in one film, and the other two videos

02:10are the Crooked House Anniversary in the Year 2024, and the other one is called Crooked

02:18House History by Anthony Jeffers, where I've studied six hours, the ins and outs of the

02:25crooked house, and I'm telling the people in front of the camera how it came about the

02:31history of the crooked house, going back hundreds of years, what happened then, up to the present

02:36day, which I find is very interesting.

02:39So how can people get hold of the video?

02:41They can get hold of the videos, they're on YouTube, there's now links, which I did before

02:48last year, I actually started to do them over the links, and I thought of separate

02:53ideas, I thought, right, let's do it easily for the public to view.

02:58So the first one is called Crooked House Longest Video, which is, the eight videos all compiled

03:07into one.

03:08Yes, I see.

03:09That's the barbecue.

03:10So if people search that, that's what they'll find?

03:12That's right, that's the one.

03:14The demolition, barbecue, et cetera, Marko, right?

03:18Yeah.

03:19Then the other one called Crooked House Anniversary in New York 2024, and again, Crooked House

03:28History by Anthony Jeffers, where I'm telling people in front of the camera the history

03:34of this place, what it's all about, before and the present day, where previous owners

03:40had it.

03:41Yes.

03:43Before I'm going back 300 years, a lot of people doubt now that there was a gas tank

03:48on there, there's buildings on there, and where they've done round bricks, there's a

03:55lot of factories on there going back 300 years, and a lot of people think it's just a crooked

04:01house.

04:02Yeah, yeah.

04:03There's a lot of history in here.

04:04Absolutely, absolutely.

04:05Which is in the film, as I said, it's called Crooked House History by Anthony Jeffers,

04:10I'll tell you all about it, which I've studied it, and it's accurate, and people will be

04:16surprised when they look at the video, how interesting it is of a crooked house.

04:22Now I believe you're handing the films over to Dudley Archives as well, aren't you, is

04:26that right?

04:27That's correct.

04:28They'll probably be handed over this week to Dudley Archives, they've been there for

04:32some time that the films were made, finished, edited, produced by me, everything's done

04:40by me, scripts, everything, and they're looking forward for me to hand them over for future

04:47generations to watch, and to me, I've done my job.

04:51Brilliant.

04:52Now regarding that, I think we've got to see this on your head, Tony, so just pop it on

04:56your head, and we'll see how it looks.

05:02Look at that, fantastic, very good.

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