I know the guy who operated the long arm machine , he had a sad feeling that it had to come down ,also a sense of pride he got to do it as he is a local lad , However buy the time it had got to demolition stage it was beyond practical and financial repair ,it's shouldn't in my opinion have got to that , we're losing too much heritage, That's why I am trying to photo graph and video as much of our industrial heritage and nostalgic buildings before they're lost forever , Thanks for your interest.

Another lovely old building lost to history.

I wonder if people who are sent in to demolish old buildings such as this ever think "what am I doing" and whether it sometimes affects them for it is something that some of us couldn't bring ourselves to do for I know I couldn't do this kind of thing in which you have to demolish such lovely old buildings some that hold a lot of social history.

😁😂 good ol Dibnah he had a pair for sure

I think sadly it's going and the rickshaw I hoping to film an update soon

Im stealing that soundtrack....😄😄

Stunning mate👍👍

So kind thanks for that 👍

Amazing footage and great soundtrack too, brilliantly done!

Lovely video mate, I do like there 👍👍

Could of saved this

Appreciate that thankyou very much

Greatly chosen shots and smooth editing! The DJI Mini 3 Pro really shines in your hands! 🎬🏞✨ Filming with drones is my passion too - congrats! Great work!

Dudley a truly crap place and the council are corrupt crooks

I have to wonder that when all this work is finaly complete is there going to be a town to visit . Its a sorry sight at the moment and cant see it changing 😢😢😢

Very nice mate

What a fantastic video and excellent drone footage,it's a shame they couldn't save it but I fear the costs to get it back into use would of been to much,I have been in there so many times when it was a bingo hall,keep up the great work

Dudley, forever in the shadow of Merry Hill. And now being turned into a transport terminal, for the very place that killed it. Shame.

Also, i see fencing around the Black Country Combat building, ready for imminent demolition like you said. Plus, I've just seen on Google maps the old Emerald Telecommunications building, which was next to St Josephs street has also been knocked down. I'm guessing that's why Trindle Road has been narrowed to one lane, although it looks like tarmacing has also taken place here

Btw i noticed in the video that the building (which looked like a house, originally behind the blue bus shelter ) has also been knocked down. Do you happen to know what that building was? It was other side to farmfoods, near some brick steps. Maybe it too belonged to the Bus Station. But i always thought it was a house

Thanks for video! Only just found the video although i was looking for it!! Excellent footage from your drone!! 👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻👏🏻

Sad to say goodbye to a lot of our childhoods. But it’s time. My Grandparents used to take me to Dudley Town Centre all the time when I was a child. I practically grew up there. So there are a lot of fond memories here. They are gone now and so are alot of there brothers and sisters from the WW2 generation. All that remains are the memories and a decaying town. It’s time to move on.

have they demolished this building as I was planning to explore inside it? I don't know as I don't live in Dudley

is the shopping centre going too like every other historical piece of Dudley has in the past year?

Btw, have they now started demolishing the Black Country Martial Arts building, next to where the Hippodrome was?

Our dudley is a sorry sight these days, from what we had to what we had to now, sad, in the 60s 70s we had the big freight line, they pulled the cinema down, which should not have been demolished because it was art deco, the new buildings are ugly 😢

Thank you so much for this!! I've been wondering what this area of Dudley looks like from above! I've seen other "on the ground" videos of this area but hard to see what's going on from them, this is much the best way to see it! Will you film again when the building is totally demolished?

First time coming across this channel, great video. Just looking at your other content.

The demolished buildings are making way for a new Bus Station

Could you do progress of Dudley Bus Station. Love to see some drone shots of it

Why do they build these things then knock them down ?!?!? Senselessness.

I was only thinking of this place the other day, I must re visit soon, great video mate

oh wOw very cool

Fair play, probably the best demolition footage ive seen and great music too!

Bit of T-cut...sorted..

The leader of Dudley council is not a very nice person he went against public opinion, the hippodrome could have been saved could have been a music venue again, and it would have been a success, Dudley is a cesspit now thanks to the useless coucil leader, and to think they wanted city status lol you have to have some decent music venues to get city status Dudley doesn't have anything lol what a dump.

old, rusty stupid ass building...GO AWAY!

This makes me want to cry so many landmarks gone, wished I was born in the 20s wouldn't have to see all this going

Does anybody remember the roller skating rink next door to the Hippodrome There was another one near top church together with the four cinemas

hi Andy great video, Ogwen Valley is beautiful at any time of year isnt it, keep the stunning videos coming

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Brilliant!

Awesome.....!!!

great video thanks! have you ever done drone footage over or along the new dudley tram route that is being built? it would be interesting to see the progress. it is supposed to open in 2024 but i'm not sure that they are on schedule?

Ridden the number 74 bus past that all through my childhood on the way to and back from St Edmunds CoE school top of Kates hill, i lived in the iron house at the bottom of bunns lane, doubt there's much left of the fifties and sixties Dudley i knew, the memories remain though, a great start to life in a nice neat well ordered town, full of every trade and profession known, i seem to remember the town boasted three cinemas once, the Plaza, the Odeon and the Criterion.

Sad loss of a familiar landmark, took the number 74 bus past that a few hundred times on my way to St Edmunds CoE primary school in the fifties, i lived in one of the iron houses at the bottom of bunns lane, now in the BCM, very happy days, Dudley was a nice clean neat little town then, before the municipal horror called Sandwell, haven't walked those streets in fifty years, maybe i should go and kick over the traces, but i feel certain I'd be crying at its current state.

Not quite "start" surely? Or was there always a gaping hole in the back wall with a big pile of rubble?

Nice job, looks fantastic..😊😊

Love these images that are soon to be historical records

Great video!