Love the dialect...was a lovely place...now it's the pits!

Place of my birth and childhood. Left in 1980 and never returned.

Grandma from Darlaston, worked at Baylis’s on Darlaston Green and brought pig’s trotters home. When she saw the look of disgust in my face, she’d say, “Doe ya like em, ma wench?”

My Grandad, from Newcastle under Lyme, always asked me “Canna kick a bow agin a woe and yed it till it bosses?”

Times a changing, ironic that the cover shot is Woods Lane Industrial Estate, which is now a housing site

Having been bred in Bromford road, Oldboy in 1941 I would have liked to have watched this vid, but the bludy irritertin music purra stop to it afta wun Minit

A poignant and beautifully observed collage. Thank you, everyone involved in creating this and of course posting it here. There was a clip of the Queen turning into Causeway Green Road, where I was born, and turning down to Langley before going to Oldbury Town Hall. Every street, house,vehicle, the way the people were dressed - was a delight to see. I was four then and walked that route a thousand times on the way to Titford Road School. Elderly chaps always say it, but it was a wonderful time and a wonderful place.

A wonderful pot-pourri of Black Country dialect. Brings back memories of the Worton family from Cradley that my dad's sister, Edith Perrins married into. Uncle Jack, John Worton, chain maker, forger of anchor shackles, one of 14, his father, Charles, chain maker, his mother probably made nails out the back. Uncle Alf could talk posh, he had a greengrocer's shop in Halesowen. Our first house in the 60's was on the new Penfields Estate in Stourbridge. I was born in Oldswinford, my wife was a Londoner. When the in-laws came to visit it took them ages to find us because they couldn't understand the dialect spoken. It bain't like that now!

We loved in Walsall for three years and I developed a great affection and admiration for these wonderful Black Country people.

Better to supply the words with phonological subtitles

My nan always used to say, "Hers got a face like a pigs dick in a glede" . My family is from Halesowen, and most of the men in my family were shovel makers and I've traced them back to the 1700's. I have lived in Greece now for 20 years but still come back to Halesowen, The Black Country is still the best place in the world.

My in-laws from London came to visit us at our new house on the Penfields Estate, built by Leasowes, in Stourbridge. They'll be here soon, my wife would comment, late 60's, old bangers, hours later, what held you up? Got lost but couldn't understand the directions! They day spake the lingo. Great film, thanks.

Brilliant

Brilliant!!

Beautiful

Love it👍👍👍 please make some more videos as I've shown me olds this footage 👍 me farther still has a go at me now for helping meself from his white loaf 😂 (half a peice) he'd say👍

Place of my birth, 67 years ago, can't remember it being black and white though...

Happy days. I used to have a piece of butter and loved liquer and brown sauce when I was reading my comics. We used to have bread and dripping with salt on too. My mom also showed me podging and also another thing called corking which you did with wool and a wooden cotton reel. Played for hours along the cut and bonks around Brierley Hill too. This was back in the early sixties.

Brilliant. Moving. Eloquent. Poignant. Witty. A record of the impact of seismic change in an area that included the Black Patch - a place that over 50 years has seen the greatest haemorrhage of capital, work and life itself of any place in the whole country. The Black Patch was one of the places the Industrial Revolution began. It is one of the places where, almost literally, the revolution ran out of steam. In these confusing 'post-industrial' times we seem to be stumbling in the dark through blighted streets littered with happy funny memories - not of 'better' times, but of hard tough times with meaning, purpose and order.

I'm an Albion fan, (not from West Bromwich), and I have stood next to some pissed up Heathens and not understood a word!!

I’m a Londoner, moved from London in 2017 to Cradley heath, I LOVE the accent and love the Black Country, I’m slowly losing my cockney accent 😂😂😂😂 my family are like ‘WTF’ 😮 lol y’all so friendly and I love the slower pace of life and not forgetting the battered chips 😁

8.20 that's Bilston and Bilston steelworks, a view from Sedgley beacon, you can see Ettingshall park where I grew up Ettingshall Lanesfield and woodcross. The school is hill Avenue where I used to go and the green patch is the old football pitch. Loads of fun over the beacon in the late 80s early 90s. The whole area decimated by 1 woman!!!

Alot of phrases in this i can certainly relate with 👍👍👍propper oldskool 👍👍👍

Love watching these 👍👍👍

Absolutely brilliant I was born in the Black Country and am prade on it will be back 1 day

Love it!

Thems from lomeytown, I'm from Spinners End, so I cor understand a word.

what the fuck Tom Swallows ?

Love where I live

thanks, excellent production

106 year old has died in May 2019

Oldbury due April 15 2020

In 2016

103 year old woman

A wonderful documentary, proud to say I'm a black country wench, and I'm old enough to remember the different dialects, Netherton used to fascinate me as a child.

a few words not said was a wamul which means a dog and om clamd to deth very hungery i was from tipton and hilltop

fantastic, thanks for your work. To those who watch this after me please thumbs up even if you don't comment. this is someones hard work and without it some history wouldn't be known. And those who've thumbed down they need a cog winder. End Music is beautiful.

Really enjoyed , an excellent production. I think the title would be better if it included black country.

Appreciate you sharing this! I am an American but Tipton is the home of my immigrant ancestors the Whittaker and Lambert families. Hope to visit there someday. My 4th great grandfather ran the English Oak pub.

i lifed there 10 years ago

Our spake is still a gooin. Come down Cradley and yo'ull ear it.

Good vid

Lovely pictures of old Tipton. Thank you.👍🏻

Banks's Ale - the best in the world!

and others lol

lol i recognize some of them voices haha gaz the fish bloke and the old guy who looks like del boy with all the jewelry on his fingers drinks in jays barr

Only people from the Black Country would use all that slang and complain that people can't understand them. The reason people think you're stupid is because talking like that does in fact make you sound stupid.

I was born and bred in Pensnett and for the last 15/20 years have lived in the islands of Scotland I'm now 68 and listening to this warmed the cockles of me heart and ''gid me a good loff''Thank you and to all who took part

Extremely homesick right now. Great job!