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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

‘We’ve become one big family’: Camp Wonky continues watch of Crooked House site

Members of the watch outside the Crooked House site
Members of the watch: (l-r) Kizzy Daly, Tony Hewitt, Emily Daly, Dan Parkes, Diana Daley, Haley Mason, Emma Smith, Kerry Goodman and Caroline Haywood. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

Affectionately named Camp Wonky, a group of Black Country residents are nearing the end of their second week keeping a 24/7 watch of the site where the Crooked House pub stood.

“It’s not exactly how I expected to be spending my summer,” laughed Emma Smith, from Kingswinford, who has been visiting the camp every day with her young daughter. “But we’ve become one big family, it’s been nice. And now we can see what’s going on [with the pub], we all feel a lot happier, we can actually sleep at night.”

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