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Like many others, I was very upset to hear about the recent fire at the Crooked House pub in Gornalwood, and its demolition. My parents and ancestors were from the Gornal area, and the Crooked House very much featured as part of their lives.
I am now in my 90s, but one of my own memories of the Crooked House involves being taken there when I was roughly 10 or 11 years old in about 1942 by my father (William Walter Burrows), a Gornalite. We were staying nearby at the family home, 4 Straits Road with my Aunty Ruth, Uncle Enoch and cousin Ethel. We walked to Hopyard Lane into Brick Kiln Lane and down to Himley Road, where we crossed into another unsurfaced road leading to the pub. The building stood alone in a wooded area about a quarter of a mile down the lane. I recall its official
