Tipton Gauging Station Fire

[pearley]

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/sandwell/tipton/2023/11/03/listed-tipton-building-damaged-in-fire-for-second-time-in-matter-of-months/

[David Mack]

Another Crooked House in the making!

Wasn't there a proposal not so long ago to convert the building to housing?

[pearley]

Think there's been several proposals. 

[Heartland]

Yes  there were proposals and there was a plan at one time for the Dudley Canal Trust to use the gauging station as a dock for their boats.

 

Several years ago a group of us from the RCHS tried to get the status raised to 2 star, but then English Heritage chose not to agree. The reason for the change was to support the improved level of gauging from Wet to Dry gauging as well as related issues regarding standardisation of weight,

 

At the nearby Barge & Barrel there was a fire at the closed public house on November 3rd

 

Seems like an epidemic of arsonists is about!

 

 

 

Edited November 4, 2023 by Heartland

[Heartland]

Some people have questioned the Barge & Barrel fire, did it happen?

  

[Captain Pegg]

1 hour ago, Heartland said:

Some people have questioned the Barge & Barrel fire, did it happen?

  

 

Isn't the Barge & Barrel the place that trades as The Old Bush Bar & Grill (and the place where most of this year's BCN Challenge competitors were fed after the event)?

 

If so it appears to be up and running presently.