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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