Black Country People - Gornal 1970s

A video of Gornal in the 1970s. Documenting lives of Black Coubtry people with the food they eat and the entertainment they enjoy.

[@1061andy]

Wonderful heart warming, traditional English culture - the Black Country and its' people, yow cor beat um.

[@martinqualters608]

This is brilliant, it reminds me of how it was in my area back then. Sadly now all gone, no industry no sense of community, what has happened to England is really upsetting. Thank you for sharing this.

[@alfching2499]

Too much Toryism is to blame.

[@salopian4037]

So good to see Sue Jay, from the days when Midland TV was worth watching.

[@ruadhagainagaidheal9398]

I lived in the Black Country in the 70s. The towns were poor but I’ve never met nicer people.

[@anniechrisbendy6000]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇬🇧 THESE ARE GREAT GREAT PEOPLE ...... THE BACKBONE OF GB 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 BRILLIANT DOCUMENTERY

[@rogergutteridge2307]

Great seeing Black Country folks enjoying themselves. I was born in Coseley now live in New Zealand, if you have a black country friend you have the best mate forever

[@admiralbenbow5083]

Thats why you left is it?

[@nickedwards212]

Definitely 1000% true.

[@ScrewyLoops]

Now that's what you call a community!

[@Chitapool]

In 50 years time, the youth of today will see 2023 as 'the good old days'......It happens every generation.

[@Cyndithia68]

As a Black Country native that has lived in Canada for the last 45 years, people still look at my husband and say what did she say. Lol

[@stesmith7040]

Ya can tek the girl out of the Black Country but ya cor tek the Black Country out of the girl 👍🇬🇧❤️

[@tertur2957]

I know the story well. My dad lived in Gornal went to Red Hall school. Joined the navy at 17 and moved to Northern Ireland, then to Canada. My wife never did understand what he said.

[@stuhall2689]

Lived in a pub in Dudley back in the late 60 and early 70's and have photos of my mom & dad with Harry Harrison behind the bar. It was a fantastic place and time to live.

[@austinguest5054]

I lived in Bilston for 15 years and miss the Black Country and most importantly it’s people and humour !!

[@karenjadiesteinhards]

I worked in the high street .lovely place X

[@craigstewart6073]

I remember as a lad in his mid teens working on the pop rounds in Gornal in the 90's. They were always lovely people, very polite, real salt of the earth.

[@karengittins6648]

My Granny who was from Brierley Hill, from time to time used to send 'The Black Country Bugle' up to us in Yorkshire. It was brilliant. And mad. As a family, 50 years on, we can still recite bits from one of its' poems called 'The ballad of Harry Cabbage'... does anyone else out there still recall it ...?

[@user-cd5hc3vu2e]

Loved this .Sue Jay was utterly charming.

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

This is gold. What have we become? I lived in Bilston in 1988, my landlady had a suit of armour in the hall.

[@davewright8206]

yes this is gold same sentiments here

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

@@davewright8206🚬🤠

[@coralpearl7828]

That took me back years. My nan and grandad were from Lower Gornal and my mom was born there. I went to school in Sedgley. Thanks for posting this video

[@davidhurst100]

I was a boy growing up about 2miles away from Gornal when this was filmed. It looks other Worldly now, a time rooted in the past.

[@davidlamb7524]

That great old traditional Black Country song "Swanee River "😊

[@robertrichards8418]

Miss this community spirit so much worked at Bulmers Cider Pensnett with Gornal guys fantastic earthy people xxx

[@jhvoojh]

I'm from Guns Village, West Bromwich and now live in Newcastle, let's just say it's a challenge communicating!!!

[@dperson9212]

Ay it

[@nickedwards212]

My dad lived up the Salt Wells he was bread and born in Cradley Heath. I am so proud to have been the son of a black countryman.

[@tsr207]

What a marvellous little program ! The presenter is charming - never patronising - and is interested in people - did she have a good career in Television?

[@VintageLifeCars]

With an attitude like that, I doubt it!

[@davewright8206]

yes she did , lasted through the 70 /80s im sure , im from midlands she was on tv locally

[@jackjohnhameld6401]

I grew up in industrial West of Scotland so the Black Country has always fascinated me. Thanks for this ATV documentary. Gornal seems suspended in time, a better time too.

[@dperson9212]

Pay a visit mate. It ay much to look at, no greenery, but it's friendly.

[@brainimp]

@@dperson9212 what you mean no Greenery? The country side starts less than half a mile away from Lower Gornal

[@dperson9212]

@@brainimp that's the edge of the Black Country mate, as you'll well know, heading out towards Himley.

[@susanofhullhumberside4753]

The great Harry Harrison a true Staffordshire man, we love him

[@williamraybould8393]

Love my gornal. Never want to leave only in my box. ❤

[@rachelradford7747]

Well Ste dunno where you found this but it's bloody great. More people need to see this.

[@AnotherSale]

This needs more views/likes

[@christopherhulse8385]

The Black Country today isn't the same as when that programme was made, the community spirit has mostly died away with the old un's, the youngsters today only care about themselves.

[@Baltihunter]

Their loss not ours

[@pateicialane4740]

Thank god it’s not like past cringe thank the lord I wasn’t dragged up there 😂

[@2345bcde]

We need more videos like this im from brierley hill just down the road 👍👍👍

[@nancya.nelson5810]

Community dinner and entertainment was a joy to watch!

[@peakyparttimers9362]

Good family entertainment. All lost now. Instead just watching it on this bloody laptop!

[@katehoran]

This is absolutely brilliant. Thanks so much for uploading.

[@TheWhitehawker]

Good to see Goral Athletic FC are still going today.

[@nickshuttleworth8389]

Thanks so much posting this! I think the first bit is by dewsbury and prouds cranes, near where the boat pub was on havacre lane. Grew up round here!

[@jaclynfletcher6198]

Ay

[@karlkuttup]

i was born a few miles away in a place called tipton, and i saw and spoke with folks like these as a kid in the 70s 80s very few true dialect around any more same as my old area ocker hill and toll end,all gone now

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

Doe yo mean ocker bonk ? Near the crown and cushion and the three ossshoes.

[@Canalcoholic]

Tip’n-on-Cut, famous place.

[@faisaldhariwal1510]

Nice one for posting this

[@dih9788]

Bostin. In gratitude. Thank You.

[@MrDirkles]

You don't know what you've got until it has gone :(.

[@jasonladd6400]

You don't hear those old music hall songs much any more. The generation that went through the war becoming few in number.

[@marcj3682]

Black Country here, born, bred, and still living here.

[@stevenedwards9715]

Hello and thanks for watching this video

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

legendary video bro 😎

[@middley1964]

The days when local news and progs was for local folk

[@nigelwright850]

8:09 and 22:38 a wonderfull authentic accent.

[@user-or6pk6fy5y]

Born and bred in the black country worked in the black country factories repairing forklifts for forty years great people great video teks yo back med me lof God bless them all proper proud British people ❤👍🦊

[@owlinthewood]

I lived in Sedgley when I was young. My dad and his father were doctors in Gornal in the 60’s.

[@66oggy]

The last era of causing mischief as a kid, then getting a whack round the ear off your neighbour ....But you didn't dare tell your Mum or Dad, cos you'd get your arse tanned.

[@garryherd3042]

My Gran grew up in Smethwick during the war,storys of the bombings etc seemed horrendous

[@bansheebandithot350]

That was ace me mate just sent me this were from Dudley 👍🏻

[@gabrieldettmannb4509]

The first guy sounds almost dutch Which makes sense, because both Dutch and English stem from anglo-Saxon languages.

[@MarkLaw-xy9vf]

Black Country is the oldest dialect in England

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

@@MarkLaw-xy9vfaye up lad

[@angelsone-five7912]

Very nice but if you go there today don`t expect any of this.

[@mickeyshooter5298]

Is it much different? Lot of foreigners?

[@klnine]

Ir3member going with my dad to Layla carpet near to the Rosemary cinema . We stopped a local to ask directions. 10 minutes later we left him, having understood not a word !

[@spikephotography]

And here the thing it was on ATV which is Black Country for ITV 😂

[@growlerthe2nd712]

What was the actual year of this documentary, judging by the length of the blokes hair I would say early 70s . I remember days like this down our social club I’m from a East Midlands town just the same as this just a different accent 👍🇬🇧

[@davewright8206]

poetry was top notch

[@gedhuffadine5796]

Great day's and real people

[@vincentwilliams8685]

We got more canals thun Venice but yow dow wanna goo on a gondola tu Bloxwich

[@ppppickup]

bloxwich ay in the BC

[@evanleebodies]

So easy to get romantic about the good old days.....the industrial pollution, the filthy canals, the ill health of anyone who worked, the limited social mobility, crap education prospects, the myopic village mentality. But despite all that, we thrived. Willenhall born, bred and proud to the bone.

[@takizakura123]

Social mobility disappeared along with grammar schools. Single mothers, drug use, loneliness, violence and homelessness have all increased.

[@MrSteve_Luddite.]

The slim well dressed People, the community cohesion, the easily entertained happy People. Today the descendants of those people will be sat at home blindly staring at their phones looking for human interaction. I know which era I prefer.

[@b17vic]

Not much has changed really. The biggest difference is the shift in ill health, from physical illness to mental illness. The pollution has changed too, there is rampant pollution right now it is just unseen.

[@matthewtaylor7355]

​@@takizakura123Crack smoking racists, middle class paedo scum, bigotry, etc the bourgeois turds come out on top😂

[@hj2963]

All that made them great people, the sense of humour, getting on with life, the community - I’m glimpsing my grandparents and families past. Those people didn’t have time to be depressed simple but wise.

[@martinfisher7803]

A couple of miles down the road yowm in lye the famous Chinese restaurant 😊

[@jamiejudd8018]

Absolutely brilliant the England I grew up in

[@TheRattyBiker]

I also too want a president that rips hot baking trays out of the oven with bare fingers! That's a true president!

[@rachelhudson4662]

Notice the two Italian ladies at the start of the this amazing video.

[@billmcclean6986]

Brilliant grub , pasta , and noodles wouldn't count with this stuff. God bless you all

[@alan-sk7ky]

The athletic club ground has touch of Barnstonworth FC about it 🙂

[@TheBigal1964]

great place to live and sound folks

[@seansands424]

better than now

[@mickeyshooter5298]

@@seansands424what’s it like now? Let me guess, darker?

[@Canalcoholic]

Black Country an’ prahd on it. Learnt to drive around Gornal when that was the local test centre, and I still use the homebrew shop on Zoar Street.

[@florencejoanjones5233]

I love Dudley food it the best in black country

[@deandavies9576]

My home town

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

❤ it

[@mazzin62]

You are right. Human ability to adapt to harsh conditions in order to survive let's those who run our lives get away with murder. But working class resiliance keeps our humaninity alive and thriving. These people are truly the salt of the earth.

[@backcountrymon]

All the old uns av gone now 😢

[@bluesdude1194]

I used to werk with a bloke from Gornal years ago.

[@jhareng]

Lived 1 mile away in Sedgley for 5 years went to shool there for a year coming from Leckie Walsall having knocked about and brought up knowing Smethwick, Tipton and Great Bridge. Gornal was like a foreign language, not many speak it now - Innit. A true Gornal will know this "I hate you", in conversation normal speak then go off "and they be hanging the pig on the wall and watching the band go by" awesome so were the women saw a few of as a teenager.

[@geoffadams5537]

I was born in smethwick, brasshouse lane at the top you walk into Halfords lane which is the smethwick end of the Hawthorns, I now live in new Zealand,came home in 2007 I hardly recognized the town As most of the industries having been shut down and the dirty great duel carriage way replacing what was once a continuous row of shops houses and pubs. And of course the Pakistani chavs declaring smethwick was their Manor.

[@jhareng]

@@geoffadams5537 Me old man worked night shifts at the Birmid

[@daffyduk77]

had to use subtitles much of the time 😀

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

😂 me too

[@martiniv8924]

Sue Jay , happy days 👍🏻😎

[@TheRattyBiker]

🤯🤯 Never knew The Black Country spoke of Lug Oils too! Thought that was just a Yorkshire thing!

[@PAUL-ge1kl]

Loved the champion toper at 15.00

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

when exactly was this made?

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

1969 I believe.

[@spikephotography]

The end credits are disturbing…

[@Drumandbassplanet]

Hot sweaty room, everyone smoking, winders all shut, bright red faces, high blood pressure, warm beer, sweaty faces

[@davewright8206]

it does make me sad . you can mock all you like but thats real england in the old days , change the accent and food and it would appear all over the country they look happy too

[@charliekenwright6324]

That’s why we say ‘ the good old days ‘ these politicians have destroyed it unfortunately

[@Baltihunter]

I feel like a pint of Bathams now

[@trukka101]

Born and bred black country man here, it ay wor it was nar. I now live in South Wales but visit family when I can. Ya wo brek a black country bloke.

[@Canalcoholic]

I’ve only emigrated at far as Kiddlyminster. Any road up, yo con tek the mon aht’un the Black Country but yo cor tek the Black Country aht’un the mon.

[@whitewolfo2715]

Wer's the bread for wiping up ya plate

[@MarkPMus]

By ‘eck, they enjoyed a good night out in those days, didn’t they?

[@charliecroker6445]

Camel toe at the beginning was appreciated.

[@alan-sk7ky]

Naughty man... 😀

[@markstevenson7884]

Pig on the wall. Love it.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

11:00 👍🏻

[@TheButcherkevin]

Subtitles am crap

[@hypnosis9025]

I’m lower gornal born and bread

[@winstonchurchill6506]

I was born in the black country of nottingham i now live in alpha centuri

[@mymusicnicklin4306]

My uncle tommy edwards

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

legend bro 😎

[@beverleylowe3711]

Superb 😂😂😂

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

Laughing, I thought it would be Delta Blues in southern USA.

[@BlackcountryhistoryhunterBCHH]

30k views BOSTIN

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

Dont get in a drinking contest with those guys, lol. I wonder what it looks like in 2023?

[@charliekenwright6324]

Mogadishu probably or maybe Calcutta 😂

[@rjc7289]

The only thing I know about the Black Country is that Rob Halford from Judas Priest is from there.

[@kramregnomnori7624]

And Robert plant and noddy holder are black country folk ☺️

[@ste123456754]

Yer from Walsall and noddy holder

[@rw2954]

Ow Bist

[@kramregnomnori7624]

That be Dawley speak Jockey!

[@AlisonBryen]

@@kramregnomnori7624 It's commonly used in the Black Country too actually.

[@charleslucas5930]

It means how are you

[@marccarter1350]

The Black Country is in Birmingham?

[@scottiedog4236]

Dudley area .. It’s still an amazing place with shit loads of Great Pubs

[@lightdancer4146]

No, it’s an area (lots of small towns and villages) to the West of Birmingham…now integrated into the city, unfortunately. Black Country folk don’t much like being called Brummies!

[@ppppickup]

@@scottiedog4236kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5vSfJqvgqibnc0feature=shared

[@BlackcountryhistoryhunterBCHH]

10:34 ED SHERAN

[@wix7657]

These country people don’t look that black to me! But I’m sure if the politicians get their way they will be replaced with ones that are soon enough.🤔

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

Put the pig on the wall aer kid