Jonathan Meades :: Get High (1/3)

[@tobyyorke2539]

RIP crooked house! 1765 - 2023

[@ajs41]

Terrible.

[@tobyyorke2539]

@@ajs41did you ever visit it? I only knew it through this doc. Wish I’d made the trip now!

[@ajs41]

@@tobyyorke2539 No, although I live in south-east Staffordshire near Lichfield, so it isn't that far from here. Wish I had. But I remember this clip because I watched everything that Jonathan Meades had ever done on TV about 10 years ago, and it stuck in my mind.

[@georgemorley1029]

They’ve been ordered to rebuild it. The fraudsters who set fire to it and then demolished the remains.

[@georgemorley1029]

The council has ordered a rebuild.

[@ShamanBuddhaDread]

Jonathon Meades is a wonder human being

[@simonlloyd7557]

Meades is the love child of Elton John and Mel Smith.

[@ajs41]

I expect Meades to write an article in The Critic magazine pretty soon about the terrible destruction of the Crooked House at the start of this video.

[@jaeger1989]

Best channel on youtube?

[@subcynic]

I just watches this episode today and thought, "crooked house looks cool i might take a trip there, after all, I like pubs." Caught us without the news this evening and it's all burnt and destroyed. Gotta be the definition of shit timing on my part, 29 years after the episode aired.

[@georgemorley1029]

The fraudsters who set fire to and demolished it have been ordered to rebuild it by the courts.

[@curbboy]

a perfect documentary.

[@olivieremond5346]

TYVM INTERNET SURFING CLUB!

[@peterphoto7732]

The Crooked House must be rebuilt. And the people who where involved in its destruction should pay for it.

[@georgemorley1029]

Council has ordered it.

[@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR]

1994

[@thomHD]

07:32 What is that music from?

[@robs5815]

its not this, but it reminds me of LOTR - the mordor days

[@leored79]

I think it is from the soundtrack to a James Bond Film. Possibly Moonraker, something like that..

[@oramihi]

@@leored79 So close, but I'm just not hearing it... kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6DTY3aFiLqAeKs

[@oramihi]

Oh! It was in the description! John Barry's music from "Out of Africa" Never thought I'd be glad for the KZbin snitch algorithm: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4i9Y5SaeMZ-pZY

[@davidbarnes241]

John Barry Out of Africa 👍

[@Xceptionalist]

The cars are pretty old - when was this done anyone know?

[@darrens3]

1994

[@david552]

I preferred the scuzzy old VHS copy...

[@Stereolabdream]

"protect us from ourselves..." Yes, that's about right. The role of government should be the protection of property and little else.

[@darrens3]

You've just described a feudal state. A modern government is meant to govern i.e. protect individual liberties from the tyranny of the many as well a provide a minimum level of living conditions and economic environment such that a society can function without people living in fear. And part of that protection being afforded is the requirement of a military, healthcare etc. all the things ancient Rome realised thousands of years ago.