I live only a few miles away from Walsall, but I never go there
@chrisshelley30276 ай бұрын
Shouldn't there be a ? After why?
@suburbanbanshee6 ай бұрын
Nevsky Prospekt is named for Aleksander Nevsky. There was a monastery that was dedicated to him, and the street was designed to lead out to the monastery church.
@suburbanbanshee6 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video! It looks great and sounds great, and I wish you two were running Doctor Who these days!
@CummingsYourWay6 ай бұрын
Gosh, there's a thought. Much appreciated!
@suburbanbanshee7 ай бұрын
Well, obviously Richard Booth's isn't a bigger bookstore than John K. King's (the one in Detroit, not the one in Portland), but equally obviously, a warehouse in Detroit is less picturesque than a streetfront in Hay-on-Wye. Still, there is literally nothing like walking into a multi-floor warehouse full of books, many of them highly desirable to you personally, and knowing that there is literally no way to conquer that pile of potential reading. It makes one let go of certain pretensions, while showing you the depths of the literary sea.
@suburbanbanshee7 ай бұрын
A bit more discursive of a discussion in this episode... Very interesting and beautiful, however, as always!
@farrendry51177 ай бұрын
Just watch your video about Kiimver. And commented that I used to work out that way and what a wonderful part of the country it was. Strangely after quitting that job I ended up working in digbeth for many years again another wonderful part of the country, however for so many different reasons.
@farrendry51177 ай бұрын
Great video, some 20 odd years ago I use to work in and around the Seisdon peninsula, a wonderful part of the country. I always thought Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (the red baron) had the record for moving around after death but maybe not. Although come to think of it our lord Jesus Christ did quite a good job of it.
@davestraughan7 ай бұрын
This better be good
@davestraughan7 ай бұрын
It was ❤
@michaelbarker76489 ай бұрын
1n 1983 I was accepted to the Stourbridge College of Art. I was going to a town that I knew nothing about. Apart from looking at Stourbridge on the map, the very first connection I made was reading up on Witcherfinder General in Sounds. Of course the article featured that infamous artwork which formed my first impressions of Stourbridge.
@positivepower494710 ай бұрын
So much history in this area. History lost mostly to myth. Myth or cover ups?. The land is full of wealth for the people to benefit.
@Swaggerlot11 ай бұрын
The biggest risk to Bury St Edmunds is the envious shite in places like Ipswich. BSE is my favourite town.
@chris438311 ай бұрын
I used to live in Bury St Edmunds as a child way back in 1979 to 1983. Have often returned in later years to see the town, a lovely little English town, nice walk in the Abbey Gardens, is the Bird Aviary still there I wonder? Great video Dan, brought back many memories, thank you Sir. You have yourself a new Subscriber.
@CummingsYourWay11 ай бұрын
Not sure about the Aviary - where was it? Thanks for the message!
@chrisrand51853 ай бұрын
Yes, the aviary is still there.
@michaelbarker764811 ай бұрын
Cummings your way. The biggest find since Sutton Hoo! Have you seen TheTube live rendition of ‘Heaven is Waiting’? Goes horribly wrong. Apart from that, a tune I play quite often.
@lisazazzarino11 ай бұрын
😎👍🏼❤️
@davestraughan11 ай бұрын
Superb. I genuinely haven't decided whether i prefer watching you visit places I'm familiar with, or places i don't know at all, like Bury St Edmunds
@CummingsYourWay11 ай бұрын
Cheers old boy. We'll be in touch soon-ish
@ddanny310811 ай бұрын
I’d watch him all day. Seems like a fellow teacher. I do wish the sound was more consistent on the last one.
@CummingsYourWay11 ай бұрын
Indeed, we are teachers
@BobPearson-s1g Жыл бұрын
My apologies ... you're better ...
@BobPearson-s1g Жыл бұрын
Is that you Mr Meades
@JulieKellaway-i5g Жыл бұрын
all these places I just drive through!
@evanleebodies Жыл бұрын
Mr Cummings you are the spit of my mate Terry Brazier of Clothier Street
@davidhallard7427 Жыл бұрын
The Crooked House? What about Beatties?
@NedLudd717 Жыл бұрын
We're back baby
@ShotgunDuck901 Жыл бұрын
i love your channel im a subscriber
@Microwaveoven4 Жыл бұрын
What tie number is that
@ddanny3108 Жыл бұрын
Superb. Back at last
@Microwaveoven4 Жыл бұрын
Get in danny back in blue
@ljforrealz Жыл бұрын
YESSSSS. 🎉🎉🎉
@ppppickup Жыл бұрын
must of been some view up there 100 years agu mr cummings
@davestraughan Жыл бұрын
You should do one on Erdington. Cultural capital of north east Birmingham, after Shard End ...of course.
@samsum3738 Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed it . Should have been longer .
@philipevans698 Жыл бұрын
Only thing I would say is The Fiery Holes is not really Tipton ? but a good video otherwise .
@tomkent4656 Жыл бұрын
I forget who once described Brighton as "a town helping police with their inquiries."
@samsum3738 Жыл бұрын
Graham Greene ?
@popwillodrum1 Жыл бұрын
Nice one aer kid it's a great video. Unny just come across it. Born an lived just daern the road, never went up theer tho, funny ay it that! But looked at it every day frum me nans house in Stowheath a great big tank like thing on legs. Woke up one day n theer it was Gone! What was it aer kid? I never did find out.
@2msvalkyrie529 Жыл бұрын
Just watched your Patrick Hamilton vid. From 9 years ago !! Loved it . Glad to know figure still out there despite pathetic disappointing viewing figures . BUT..such are the Times we live in..Ave atque Vale .!
@2msvalkyrie529 Жыл бұрын
PS. " Figure still out there " Should be " you're still out there " ! Not that it makes much difference .!!
@2msvalkyrie529 Жыл бұрын
Hmm. Weird but fascinating. Like Patrick Hamilton. ?
@ppppickup Жыл бұрын
is walsall really in the black country cummings🤔
@clairalouisa Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 the lock museum it’s locked
@listencarefully1000 Жыл бұрын
Grew up at the foot of sedgely beacon at Lanesfield and climbed it many times as a boy. Remember the semi-circular steel plate at the top where you could stand and look out. Living in Australia for over fifty years now.
@CummingsYourWay Жыл бұрын
After 50 years, the Black country must seem like a distant dream from where you are
@iDeaGLeZHD2 жыл бұрын
Mr Cummings and Mr Harris, it's fantastic to see you both making Cummings Your Way all these years on. I remember when we were made aware of your videos in Mr Harris' Film Studies class. I'm still keen on the film industry now and I put a lot of that down to Mr Harris' teaching. Thank you for all you do!
@CummingsYourWay Жыл бұрын
Hello Mark! Yep we're still plugging away. Thanks for the kind words. Hope you're well?
@MassivePing2 жыл бұрын
There is an image at 4:09, (Corn Exchange Beer Here). I can't place this in Beverley at all, and I grew up there. Fairly certain that is an image from Hull instead
@pedmondson002 Жыл бұрын
It is, next to Hull Minster (Trinity).
@Maturelifeandbeyond2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your video about Welwyn. Im a nobody in the third world countries, studying Ebenezer Howard's garden city. Hope someday I could visit Welwyn, Hampstead and Letchworth.
@johnhaggerty43962 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. I remember seeing Dennis Potter's *Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton* on BBC TV then reading his book *The Glittering Coffin*. I was still at school and I bought a Penguin paperback edition of *Border Country* by Raymond Williams which carried a glowing Potter review.
@thedinodude17112 жыл бұрын
The goat himself has returned
@johnhaggerty43962 жыл бұрын
Cummings Your Way. Never heard of you until this November night. Not since Ian Nairn have I been so moved and entertained by a reporter in love with England's townscape, and I am a Scot. Nairn wrote for The Sunday Times in the 1960s and then made great BBC TV documentaries (KZbin). You have his eye for detail and his wry humour.
@CummingsYourWay2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these kind words John. Nairn is indeed an inspiration.
@johnhaggerty43962 жыл бұрын
Glad to have found this nine years on. I have always been fascinated by the Black Country and I am a Glasgow man. The West of Scotland had its own Black Country some of the most heavily industrialised landscape in the world, but yours had the name & legend. I think my fascination began with Caroline Hillier's *Journey to the Heart of England* and there is a recent book of brilliant poems, *Black Country*.
@CummingsYourWay2 жыл бұрын
Good reference points those. There are definitely parallels between Glasgow and Birmingham / The Black Country. Hopefully we'll get up there some day.
@johnhaggerty43962 жыл бұрын
By the way you have a great shot at the very end. I wondered about the name of the street: wonderful outlook.
@CummingsYourWay2 жыл бұрын
@@johnhaggerty4396 It's Gospel End
@johnhaggerty43962 жыл бұрын
@@CummingsYourWay Thanks, Mr Cummings. I shall take a stroll down there one day. It is the kind of hill-view street I imagined Stanley Middleton living in even though he was a lifelong resident of Nottingham. Middleton & Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, Shelagh Delaney and David Storey: all favourite writers. Just finished Storey's posthumous memoir.
@gertrudetrudy2 жыл бұрын
Best thing I've ever seen
@kevinsommerville66932 жыл бұрын
Need to revisit all of Potter. He was so influential to the younger me. Thank you Dan, I'm very glad to know that you were there and that you're somewhere else now. Thank you.