The viral videos, created by the Friends of Elm Tree Inn community group, saw residents ‘spill the tea’ about the ‘delulu’ plans to shut down the pub, and ‘rizz’ people up to save it by donating to the cause.
Since the campaign was launched, the Friends of Elm Tree group has raised £520,000 in donations, which is enough to buy and reopen the Elm Tree Inn.
Older residents of Langton Herring in Dorset joined forces with their younger counterparts to create a series of videos in which ‘Boomers’ (older villagers) talked about their pub using Generation Z slang.
Sir Barnes Wallis drank and stayed at the Elm Tree while his bouncing bomb, used in the Dambusters raid in the Second World War, was being tested nearby.
A campaign to save a historic pub where bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis stayed has raised ?
