I'm Wednesbury born and bred. This video bought a tear to my eyes. About 9mins in, we helped each other for free. We didn't have money anyway. Yes you didn't rob your neighbours or go shoplifting. The Women being interviewed in the market are some of the amazing people that raised me and made me what I am today. Black Country and proud.
@user-sc3ts6lf8r8 ай бұрын
Know anybody with a time machine mate ? One way will do just fine .......
@rosegolding9258 ай бұрын
❤🫶
@mesparky98 ай бұрын
@@user-sc3ts6lf8r sorry, I ignored your comment, I thought you were being sarcastic,lol. In my defence I did fall down the stairs and knocked myself about a bit. I'm sure if Mom and Dad were here they would recognise your Gran, she looks very familiar. I used to hate shopping in Wednesbury with Mom, she seemed to know everyone. It took ages to get it done. Happy Xmas, av a good un.
@stesmith70408 ай бұрын
Wolverhampton me ar kid God bless ya
@Ashley_x_Smith8 ай бұрын
Filmed in the year I was born, how our landscape has changed. The best of times and the worst, our industry fed the world with innovation and design since Abraham Darby first smelted iron from ore. I'm a Babcock time served welder and learned my trade in Tipton but our industry has sadly gone, successive governments and over zealous unions saw to that. We made the world once but now aged 54 I'm one of the youngest welders I know and the last of our proud generation. So many foundries I welded in are all gone now, housing estates sit where factories once stood... Damn those who sold us out over the years.
@davidbarr83947 ай бұрын
What wonderful people these are! My grandfather was a West Virginia coal miner and blacksmith, cut his life short, but he had a huge heart. Tough as a rail tie, yet smiled through it all. Both the Black Country and Appalachia have seen better days but their history is proud with the pulse of raw soul. Great doc, thank you.
@colinmelling63698 ай бұрын
The men in them foundry’s were bloody tuff guys . You wouldn’t mess with them.
@spency7878 ай бұрын
Q: What’s the difference between a buffalo and a bison? A: Ya carnt wash ya ‘ands in a buffalo
@sp-19737 ай бұрын
I currently live in Cradley and our local chip shop is called The Chainmakers' and I live in an old terrace like the ones on here. The gardens and houses where I live still have old terraces that were used to make the chains, a part of my house at the back was originally a workshop.
@siouxiebelle33clark357 ай бұрын
Like back to back ouses
@sp-19737 ай бұрын
@siouxiebelle33clark35 yes! 🤣🤣👌👌❤️
@richardtromans49636 ай бұрын
The pub in quarry bonk used to be called the chain makers as well ay it
@davewright82068 ай бұрын
it does make me cry the best of humanity is behind us
@rosegolding9258 ай бұрын
❤🫶
@strappaplank60177 ай бұрын
what, all the abuse talking place in schools and institutions
Even more reason to be the best of humanity NOW!! Take stock from your ancestors and bring forward the best they had to offer
@BroonParker7 ай бұрын
@@scarlettskies100well said.
@seaneboy1966 Жыл бұрын
My grandad playing piano and Whistling
@mqb515110 ай бұрын
Awesome 😊
@sandgrownun665 ай бұрын
That must have been a sight to see. What part of his anatomy he use to tickle the ivories?
@g7eit7 ай бұрын
My mom and dad were from West Brom, grandparents from netherton and I grew up in Colley gate. It’s heartbreaking to see what’s happened.
@harekrsnaharerama8454 Жыл бұрын
This is amazing to watch, born in 1997 in West brom, find it really fascinating seeing how things were back then for people.
@drychaf7 ай бұрын
A valuable reminder of how brutal heavy industry life was (it still is, of course, in parts of the world). I do miss the camaraderie of our British pubs in those days though. Long gone now.
@edwinturner11497 ай бұрын
Saturday night, mum,dad in the pub,dad,Dom’s,mum talking to friends, PIano going packed out,they employed a waiter,2 prices,one for best room and snug,one for tap room,once got a rollicking for buying a pint in tap room, and taking it into the best room happy days
@richardbrown11898 ай бұрын
Great time capsule. All my family on my mother's side are from West Bromwich, so although I've lived all my life in Birmingham I feel a tremendous attachment to the Black Country.
@Jaysusitsme6 ай бұрын
Sorry to hear about your family being from West Brom, must've been tough growing up with that stigma?
@anthonylong9067 Жыл бұрын
Im american and lived in the west midlands. I’ve even played non-league football in dudley. Brierley Hill. I returned to california but i dont care what anyone says. Black Country’s my second home
@lordclog8747 Жыл бұрын
Respect Brother 😊
@rosegolding9258 ай бұрын
🫶❤
@dd75217 ай бұрын
❤
@stephenjones65007 ай бұрын
Your welcome to come back any time .i visited your beautiful state in 1993 ..couldn't get over how friendly everyone was...
@siouxiebelle33clark357 ай бұрын
This is brilliant
@michaelmoore61837 ай бұрын
Proud to be born bred and still living in Quarry Bank , my dad was a stamper in a drop forge, my grandmother worked on a big drilling machine making shackles, hard working , hard living people, no messing about in the 60s " If yo plade up yo got a Quarry Bonk Paling "Greetings from the Black Country ,Happy New Year Everyone
@Rosco-P.Coldchain6 ай бұрын
It’s a shame we have lost the art of the piano and a good old singsong..You can feel the warmth and togetherness..Now it’s Everyman for himself 😢
@micknorman3756 ай бұрын
During the Great Strike my grandparents (Grandfather worked in a Bilston Foundry) had a piano and were told to sell it by the Union before they'd get any subsistance. My grandmother made my mother a blazer and skirt so she could attend the Grammar school ... cash for the material came from a 'better off' Aunt. Hard times indeed!
@LaraGemini6 ай бұрын
when I was very young (70s) My Nana used to live opposite a pub, every night we stayed over, we could hear he piano and singing, usually old war songs. favourites seemed to include "Roll out the barrels" or "while cliffs of Dover". It s a gastro pub now.
@suereeves59947 ай бұрын
Seeing the steelworkers reminded me of my dad, a coal man from Birmingham. Tough life he had.
@mpersad7 ай бұрын
What an evocative documentary of the demanding lives of a time long gone. Terrific video, of a terrific community, proud and deservedly so!
@geraldgallagher658110 ай бұрын
Just watched this video warmed my heart to see I'm 68 and from the lunt a little place in Bilston memories a if only Tara al l hope thee bist allright
@sandgrownun665 ай бұрын
Where or what is the "lunt"?
@kateelliot13087 ай бұрын
Many happy memories brought back of visiting my maternal grandparents in Darlaston - lovely picture of the people, the accent, the humour and the hard work and tough lives they had.
@blujazz10000Ай бұрын
What a special documentary this was. Thank you for posting it. The ladies were sweet, gentle and pleasant to listen to. Heaven help the man who dared fistfight a chainmaker. Enormous arm and upper body strength. Greetings from a former steeltown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ❤
@genevievedolan12887 ай бұрын
It is striking that these people look so much healthier and happier than people today, despite the pollution and the poverty, they appear to have some thing that seems to be gone today, a strong sense of identity, and a pride of place. No one looks obese or undernourished or drug addled. The dog and cock fighting is horrible to hear about though.
@nicolad88227 ай бұрын
The men died at 60.
@Chris-wyt7 ай бұрын
@@nicolad8822because medicine wasn't available yet.
@BroonParker7 ай бұрын
@@Chris-wytthe NHS was there from 1948. People, especially men, aged quickly through living the life so clearly shown here. Work was hard and often dangerous - as the chain makers showed early in the film. Heavy smoking and drinking will not have helped. We forget the harshness of working class life through the early twentieth century far too quickly.
@blackcountryme6 ай бұрын
Rickets and T.B. Na, I'm good.
@raptorgator3 ай бұрын
Now it's just crack addicts
@estoforte3887 ай бұрын
Unbelievable that the chain making was 1969, looks more like 1869. Looks an incredibly hard job nonetheless.
@stephenjones65007 ай бұрын
Done my fair share bashed metal for forty years in and around wolvo. That's why I loff at these kids who think they're hard done by .
@lesleywatts70698 ай бұрын
My family is black country born and bred , I'm proud of it .
@cindersmolloy65847 ай бұрын
You should be. These people are a credit to the nation.
@meandu2197 ай бұрын
My childhood is the black country and i can honestly say we were much happier back then and we didnt have much other than family. Now all gone
@linzianna7 ай бұрын
BC born n bread and proud. Our dads and grandads were some of the hardest men around!
@andrewcampbell74768 ай бұрын
Real english people great stuff
@rogergutteridge230711 ай бұрын
Great video Proud to be from Coseley in the black country what made Great Britain
@DonMason-xh5rv7 ай бұрын
I too grew up in the Black Country at Coseley. Went to Mount Pleasant school and then High Arcal in Sedgley. Black Country people are the nicest folk I have ever known in my 72 years - by a distance.
@IanPotts-lv6os5 ай бұрын
My mom and dad used to work in the factorys in bilston that's where they met Bradley's was the name of the factory i miss them so much
@benji.B-side Жыл бұрын
This was fantastic to watch.
@davewright82068 ай бұрын
real people . wouldnt give you tuppence for todays youth
@davewright82068 ай бұрын
what have we become
@nononsense35286 ай бұрын
Limp wristed bed wetters.
@deborahneale70488 ай бұрын
I was born in Halem hospital West Bromwich, Brought up in Wednesbury until 6years old and thereafter in Tipton. I now live in Wales. It's difficult to explain to people how special Black Country culture has been and how different my childhood has been from other people brought up in other areas. This video has reminded me of all that but I can't help but notice that most people interviewed are talking with their "posh" voice and not he really broad Black Country dialect I remember.
@mesparky98 ай бұрын
lol, we all have that silly "posh voice" it always makes me laugh, yet we're all guilty of doing it.
@siouxiebelle33clark357 ай бұрын
i too was born in halem hosp
@deborahneale70487 ай бұрын
Sister from another mother!
@siouxiebelle33clark357 ай бұрын
I live in Leeds now my accent is still the same even some of my muckas on the street now say I yam or I cor do that
@siouxiebelle33clark357 ай бұрын
@@user-sc3ts6lf8r Om gud mush ow am yow ? I kno are hark at the wind it’s bin bad aye it bab ?
@nevillerobert3186 ай бұрын
Wow...I was born in the fifties but in the early eighties I used to work at Butlins and every night just before closing time, everyone would head over to 'The Pig and Whistle' for a sing song , songs like 'I am the Piano Man' , the place was heaving and with the singing, the building literally shook ! Great times !
@fieldofsky36328 ай бұрын
awesome film awesome people awesome time
@peteraston47538 ай бұрын
Born 1947 in Willenhall at last someone sets straight the Blackcountry bounderies properly
@chriscoughlan52218 ай бұрын
grey pase and bacon!! i vaguely remember eating this in the wheatsheaf(holdens pub) west brom near carters green, on match day!! around 1979! and it wuz bostin!1
@genevievedolan12887 ай бұрын
What is grey pase? What is pays? Peas? Very curious about this dish….love to hear more if anyone knows…
@cindersmolloy65847 ай бұрын
@@genevievedolan1288 HI, they are grey pigeon peas, not unlike yellow or green dried peas. Soaked and then boiled with bacon.
@barbarastraughn569310 ай бұрын
My family are😢 from the Black Country and the Jewellery quarter- I'm so proud of the connections despite growing up in Cheltenham and attending a private school ❤
@lightdancer41469 ай бұрын
Ditto! My Gran (born in Smethwick in 1896) finally lived in a flat in one of the new tower blocks shown in the film and could never get over her grandaughter going to private school where we lived on the Isle of Wight. 😊 I’m proud to have family from every one of those towns and villages the narrator mentioned….our ancestors worked on the anvil of the world. Bless them. They were tough.
@VisionsofChina5 ай бұрын
I bought my first wife's engagement ring (a long time ago) from the Jewellery quarter from a man, my aunty knew, and we bought it via a back door - it was quite cheap but a huge blue sapphire surrounded by diamonds. So probably knocked off eh? My uncle drove car transporters - so everybody got new batteries for their cars... The 'black economy' right?
@user-kc7nd8re3y6 ай бұрын
1969 i was born in April of that year. Things have changed so much.
@JoeMunday-ov6es6 ай бұрын
A truly wonderful documentary. Thank you so much for making this available.
@duncansteward433111 ай бұрын
this reminds me of my childhood days.
@mariaefelices65438 ай бұрын
Hard times tough area ,but the elite factory owners well cashed up
@evanleebodies8 ай бұрын
Gray pays n berkan bits, me mom brought up 7 kids on that culinary delight
@countesscable7 ай бұрын
Incredibly nutritious as well as filling and tasty. Bread and butter to mop up and a cup of tea and it is perfect
@user-hx1bk5hz8h11 ай бұрын
what an amazing film.
@EstelleBoy-sc2jm5 ай бұрын
No wonder my grandparents left Dundee in 1919 and came too East London in RSA. Thank you Grandad McCulloch and Nanny. RIP. Glad you not around to see the disaster SA is now since 1994. You would weep.
@pen21998 ай бұрын
Bloody hell those pubs, I remember them, well the last of them
@mikeblunt20552 ай бұрын
Great video. Proud to be a black country lad
@user-yd9bg7jm6o5 ай бұрын
For many years I thought my heritage originated in Wales .Last year I discovered it was actually West Bromwich .It transpired my Great Grandfather stood up against a mine owner after an accident which claimed many lives .He was forced out of town and settled in South Yorkshire..
@angelamarsters91697 ай бұрын
Thats cool living in 4al history, kind regards from Aotearoa/ New Zealand
@Stpaulus1016 ай бұрын
In 69 my family was in hilltop:::running the cottage spring pub :::I used to go to wensbury baths with my mates::and I remember the market
@buzzabuzza34947 ай бұрын
Superb piece of history 👏👏 born in willenhall the skilled industry that was prevalent in our area has long since gone.My grandparents used to run The Bell in willenhall and my uncle was a lock-maker, so sad the uk has become a dump.An era of respect ladies were ladies gentleman were gentlemen,no stabbings,murders,litter and low life behaviour.
@sandgrownun665 ай бұрын
Don't you mean a dumping ground?
@alif88844 ай бұрын
2 generations back this was my grandparents, and they were in and around the area for a good few generations back before then ❤
@johncarlisle6219 ай бұрын
very interesting video. I must confess that as I live in Northamptonshire, I only had a very vague idea of where the black country was, so it was nice to have it's boundaries defined. thankyou for sharing
@Elconbrioso8 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting this v interesting programme
@324468 ай бұрын
My Great Grandad came from Stourbridge/ Brierley Hill. I’ve never been but heard so many stories that it’s built into my psyche.
@sp-19737 ай бұрын
Stourbridge is not really classed as black country at all, Brierley Hill and brockmoor were mining areas also.
@MrPercy1127 ай бұрын
@sp-1973: an awful lot of Brierley Hill glass-blowers might disagree?
@sp-19737 ай бұрын
@@MrPercy112 they might, but they can Google the boundaries...
@sp-19737 ай бұрын
@MrPercy112 also, this video is about chain making, not glass blowing.. not all glass blowing was done in Brierley Hill was it?. The old one at Amblecote isn't classed as a black county area, it's bordering Wordsley, Stourbridge and Amblecote. The video is about chain making, and it does give borders.
@MrPercy1127 ай бұрын
Oh well, if Google says so, then who am I to disagree? Is the ‘Black Country’ only defined by chain-making then? Any road up, I hope you have a good Christmas. 👍
@neilbeeston268 Жыл бұрын
enjoyed that thanks for sharing
@EstelleBoy-sc2jm5 ай бұрын
Shame on royalty. What a hard,hard life these people lived. Shocking.
@ulead1235 ай бұрын
Yes it was a hard life but they got on with it ,they knew no other way, it was no good moaning unless you where born with the Gentry, it was the way many people had to lived, hard working but proud people.
@doctorwalex10 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing.
@TheNobbynoonar7 ай бұрын
All of that great natural wealth just sitting there under the ground. There are countries that would love to have been so blessed. The ignorance of our political class knows no bounds.
@user-sc3ts6lf8r3 ай бұрын
It was'nt ignorance .... it was their plan. It's called control.
@shirleydrury55656 ай бұрын
Thank you for showing us of times gone past. Enjoyed regards 😊😊😊
@johnbird2586 Жыл бұрын
GREAT! Thanks
@JamesDickson-vs5of7 ай бұрын
The "chap" with the beard and duffle coat ( remember them ?) Was on the open university, im sure 🏴✌️
@countesscable7 ай бұрын
You might be right as I recognise him from somewhere
@stuartwray61756 ай бұрын
Dr John Fletcher, founder of The Black Country Society.
@53supermojo8 ай бұрын
James Whale was from Dudley , he went to Hollywood and directed Frankenstein !
@sandgrownun665 ай бұрын
Not the radio presenter then?
@53supermojo5 ай бұрын
Yes , he is 125 this year....@@sandgrownun66
@countesscable7 ай бұрын
Aw those peas with bacon sounds gorgeous 🤤
@theoldconvent7 ай бұрын
I'm black country born & proud
@jamico78 ай бұрын
Bilston born a Black Country mon, l have seen horses pulling barges on the cut [canal] and 3 kids drowned in them also. Times when neighbors borrowed a cup of sugar or a shilling for the gas, hard workers and heavy drinking, pawn shops to see you through till payday, in a way good times,
@mesparky98 ай бұрын
My Dad used to swim in the cut up by the Sana at Moxley.
@mariekatherine52387 ай бұрын
I suppose nobody can do the skilled trades shown in this film anymore.
@edwinturner11497 ай бұрын
because mostly,they aren’t there
@das581310 ай бұрын
I think it's where the term, Hard as nails, and even they get hammered. Comes from. I remember the squalor and the acceptance of the people who never thought things would change so most people ended up drowning their sorrows in beer down the pub whilst the women looked after the kids on very little money. Each relying on others though everyone was in the same boat. Most people would still be living like this if we hadn't voted in a decent Labour government. I've heard of dog fighting and badger baiting but never witnessed it though I've helped as a kid on look out drinking the gambling sessions in the wrenna. I remember hearing about Speka letting someone loose his rot down in the celar when someone bet his old poodle against it. They left them together while they fought it out and after a couple of minutes it went quiet. When they opened the cellar door they were all surprised to find the old poodle walk out and the big dog dead. I do know cockfighting also went on and many people kept chickens some also kept pigs. The people were hard and kept themselves to themselves as there was a lot of thieving and trouble amongst the communities. Everyone lived and survived in poverty. They'd turn in their graves today knowing the others have voted in a war mongering gang of ruthless Neoconservatives.
@adrinathegreat30958 ай бұрын
Warmongering yes, but a standard of living today by even the non working classes are far beyond those who worked 12 hours a day back then
@dennisthemenace578 ай бұрын
Yes, labour has always been the enemy of the working man
@davidmathews45248 ай бұрын
Hard working people But Happy in there way No coverment pay outs The salt of the Earth now sadly no more Remarkable
@MsMounen7 ай бұрын
Labour are riddled with insane ideologies now.
@oldandpeculier3693 Жыл бұрын
This is great, thanks for posting this. I'm a Brummie, living in New Zealand. I've got to show this to my wife (she's a Kiwi...addicted to Jaffa cakes and Wotsits!) it will be interesting for her. By the way, I put the captions on, when the 90 years old lady said "furnaces" the caption replaced it with..."penises" 🤣😂🤣 so when good old Phil Drabble started talking about cock fighting that started me laughing again!
@rogergutteridge230711 ай бұрын
Nice to have some Black Country folks living in New Zealand Roger Gutteridge
@chriscoughlan52218 ай бұрын
I'm a bummie and baggies fan, so that makes me a black country bloke! I'm also in love with NZ, been there twice !?!? Hitch-hiked there in 1992, and used the trains from Aukl and to Invercargill, and cycled all the way back?!!
@beebee80186 ай бұрын
A living hell. You can see the hardship in their faces. And these people were the backbone of this country.
@user-cd5hc3vu2e8 ай бұрын
Loved this i was very surprised to learn Wolverhampton is not part of the Black Country i am Wolverhampton born and bred
@stephenjones65007 ай бұрын
It is despite what some claim brumajum isn't .
@MrPercy1127 ай бұрын
Yome a Yan Yam then; which is near enough to make no difference.
@pussycats4567 ай бұрын
I say bring back the headscarf!
@mikeh54316 ай бұрын
superb
@mikepxg64066 ай бұрын
Amazing people. if only we could bring them back.
@VisionsofChina5 ай бұрын
Any one of these characters could've been an uncle or aunt of mine. My mum comes from the Black Country (Smethwick) and she had 12 brothers and sisters (my grandma was blind). When I was little we lived in Coseley as did a number of uncles and aunts. We moved away to WSM but often went back to visit - I was 15 in 1969 - so can remember what these places were like and people such as portrayed here. (Voice over was a bit patronising - probably some Oxbridge bloke who got a job in TV through patronage and had never got his hands dirty.)
@ruadhagainagaidheal93988 ай бұрын
If you’re travelling in the Midlands and you start hearing folk saying “Yam, Yam” then you know you’re in the Black Country ! 🤣
@genevievedolan12887 ай бұрын
What does yam yam mean?
@barrysherwin32977 ай бұрын
@@genevievedolan1288I'm from what used to be the "potteries" and I think a phrase will explain it. "Am youm oright" translates as"are you alright". this was an `am yam` someone from the black country I think.
@MrPercy1127 ай бұрын
Aren’t Yam Yams Wolverhampton folk?
@stephenjones65007 ай бұрын
@@MrPercy112yep used as a derogatory term by all and sundry usually Brummies thing is we're proud to be called it . Slang version of you are .. ya am
@MrPercy1127 ай бұрын
@stephenjones6500: I’ve never regarded it as being derogatory, and you should indeed be rightly proud. Besides, who cares what Brummies think? 😉
@northstar195011 ай бұрын
This area helped form the wealth of Britain and yet it's Monarch couldn't bare to look at it. That speaks volumes.
@peterm18268 ай бұрын
The Monarch are nothing more than professional bludgers.
@chrisschepper93128 ай бұрын
Speaks volumes we even have a monarch.
@sylviabriggs40877 ай бұрын
@@chrisschepper9312👍
@tonycox56257 ай бұрын
Yeah, they've always been a bunch of self entitled shites.
@pussycats4567 ай бұрын
Horrible auld cow!
@Goldi3loxrox8 ай бұрын
And we are constantly told diversity built Britain. Yeah ! Right.
@ulead1238 ай бұрын
No people had to work hard for little money and in bad conditions but they were the backbone of this country
@mesparky98 ай бұрын
No, integration built Britain. Most of them came from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the North, hence our strange accent. They worked hard together and played hard. My family came from Ireland, but they integrated, I'm not Irish, though I am proud of my roots, I am 100% English and 200% Black Country.
@dd75217 ай бұрын
@@mesparky9I don't think he means that kind of diversity
@nicolad88227 ай бұрын
Same old comments on anything like this.
@MrPercy1127 ай бұрын
@mesparky9: nicely phrased! 👍 Mind, the basis of the accent is far older, dating back to the Saxon Kingdom of Mercia.
@Tor010 Жыл бұрын
Nows its Kebabs and a fight.
@paulphillips78347 ай бұрын
I was born on the tantany west bromwich im proud to be a blackcountry mon we are yam yams and proud
@xorpe71727 ай бұрын
Amazing , thank you .
@shanefrance50712 ай бұрын
Them were slightly happier days people laughed and smiled no greed and selfishness hardly safer communitys looked out for each other...
@PLAYINGAROUND6 ай бұрын
I was in a pub in Bridgnorth some years ago when I heard a woman say to her friend that West Bromwich was in the Black Country, to which I shouted across the pub, "no it ay". Well it was that or "cobblers" 😁. Talk about the tension of a cock fight 🤣. There's many a taan surrounding the real Black Country that every so often, when it suits, or is fashionable, that like to have signs that say something like "Wolverhampton in the Black Countrry", but as the film suggests, real Black Country folk are quite territorial, even if yowm daan another road yowm foreign, so such signs as decribed above are indeed cobblers. Great upload!
@ulead1236 ай бұрын
I agree the Black Country seems to stretch it's borders as each year goes by
@rjc728910 ай бұрын
The Black Country gave the world one of heavy metal music's greatest icons -- Rob Halford of Judas Priest!
@timetraveller93218 ай бұрын
You forgot to mention the godfathers of heavy metal black sabbath
@wofutokerati8 ай бұрын
@@timetraveller9321 they didn’t forget, Sabbath were all born and raised in Birmingham (not the Black Country).
@philhawley12198 ай бұрын
Zig Zig Sputnik came from Bloxwich. Beat that!
@bazxl578 ай бұрын
@@user-sc3ts6lf8r I was thinking that West Brom
@ppppickup7 ай бұрын
@@philhawley1219don powell drummer slade, off stowlawn bilston. jon brookes wednesbury, martin blunt portobello both of indie band the charlatans.
@janbethel64477 ай бұрын
Like Middle English Chaucer language the Canterbury Tales 🎶fascinating video, learnt a great deal re understanding/acceptance Born Portland House 🏰 Wednesbury
@martinguest1673 ай бұрын
I've lived most of my life in the Black country and wouldn't live anywhere else good friendly folks This Country wouldn't be as rich without its Industry making everything
@afterlate88668 ай бұрын
They were dressed in quality material despite their poverty - good wool and cotton - not like the rubbish we wear today - all plastic and polyester that hardly last one wash! We can’t afford wool and quality (not cheap) cotton today despite increased wealth and comfier lifestyles. They were tough, hard-working and grateful for everything they had, despite the fact life was unforgiving. But I hate dog and cock fighting - totally unnecessary - just satisfies the perverted violent senses of men.
@davidmathews45248 ай бұрын
How right you are sir Now it come from abroad From you know where
@thisisbob10018 ай бұрын
Remember it well
@mycolliesandme2687 ай бұрын
They were cruel to dogs though
@BEDFORD3037 ай бұрын
Black Country bred... all of this is still there and very vibrant if you go the rite pubs, the working man clubs, black Country family pride, we still av it, when the families gather at Christmas, all the young uns an babies, cousins an uncles, yeh we av a laugh, gray pays an baycun all the way haha
@davidbates2477 ай бұрын
Great people
@BlackcountryhistoryhunterBCHH Жыл бұрын
hard as the nails they med
@jemmajames67196 ай бұрын
Was shocked about the dog fighting still allowed then, absolutely disgusting. Apart from that it’s so sad to see our country changing today for the worse, it was no where near perfect but it’s not the hell on earth it is about to become as illegals etc come here every day.
@jamesbradley92332 ай бұрын
That made me feel homesick and i still live in Wednesbury, what's has happened to it ? Who allowed this to happen?
@ulead1232 ай бұрын
It has happened to many Towns they call it progress ,but somethings are not always for the best, but they can never take your memories from you
@safradash6 ай бұрын
& the government & monarchy stick their nose up at the black country after what the black country contributed to the wealth of the country. God bless & protect the black country & its citizens ❤
@sandgrownun665 ай бұрын
🐕23:28 Phil Drabble of "One Man and His Dog" fame.🐕🦺
@LisaNH9344 ай бұрын
🫂 hugs to my Yam Yam friend Phil ❤ 👋 💋😘
@raelenesmith2887 ай бұрын
David Bowie has a great song "Black Country Rock"
@martinop2flo456 ай бұрын
Everyone covered their heads.
@ulead1236 ай бұрын
The Women would never enter a Church or Chapel with out wearing a hat in those days.
@peteraston47538 ай бұрын
People on here should listen to the band the SHORT HEATH BOYS a proppa black country group
@oliviaginsbourg65416 ай бұрын
😢 EXPLOITED AND SCORNED UNKNOWINGLY ENRICHING THE MOST EVIL OF GREEDY OWNERS 😢😢 MAKES YOU SICK TO THE STOMACH 😢😢
@juleerowley97067 ай бұрын
Wolverhampton me... although it aye part of the black country..still proud of me root's aye i ..
@ppppickup7 ай бұрын
dont fall for the propganda. part of it was. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9CffsqqsqnMl58.htmlfeature=shared