Carl Chinn and Malcolm Stent: Brummies

From an old car-boot VHS. Since it's not on DVD or available to buy I think it's fair to put this great video up online. Any probs, will take it off.

[@rw6391]

Birmingham born and raised 43 now,I miss the old bullring.

[@throwow1014]

RW I miss the old Birmingham

[@danbull]

Thanks so much for uploading this, I was born in the 80s into a Brummie family although I lived elsewhere and it's lovely to see where my family grew up and lived their lives. The accents are great too, nostalgia of visiting my grandparents!

[@chriscook7077]

Brilliant i love Brum,I live in the states now but Brum will always be home.

[@davidtwigg2926]

I'm a Brummie ex-pat but it's still home. Love this video, highlights all that Birmingham was/is. Brilliant, thank you

[@fukwatshit]

was

[@bbcisrubbish]

I love these films of peoples memories. These Brummies are really proud of their city, and so they should be.

[@markhemming318]

The old lady when she said, " I'd go back tomorrow ", life is so short .

[@craiggilchrist4223]

Us Brummies are salt of the earth. Most friendly people you will meet, great sense of humour and will give you the shirt off our back if you needed it. But never cross us Brummie's and take our hospitality for granted. We can be your best mate or your worst enemy.

[@rogerdoger3347]

Brummies are not friendly many are rude, racist and bigoted areas are segregated and people are only friendly to who they know.

[@zaperfan]

The only regret is i never seen Betty Green on this video she was a wonderful lady and very knowledgeable i remember Betty opened the back to backs in hurts street .I would love to she any old footage of Betty it would Make my day

[@Blossom1948]

Hello there...Betty was a lovely lady God rest her...she used to live around by our family in Northfield but then the last time I saw her she was living in cotteridge...I have a dvd where Carl is interviewing her at the back to backs ..I will find it out and let you know ...she once told me that when she was a child living in those old back to backs they had rats running over them in bed!!!!😮

[@Blossom1948]

A wonderful video..i myself was born in Latimer street in 48.....what great days growing up in brum ...my brother's sister and myself had a fabulous childhood thanks to the best mom and dad in the world...will alway's love my city i am drawn to it...love to get into town...ok it has changed but we have to go with the flow...thanks to my friend Carl he's a great speaker i could listen to him all day..long may he reign..there should be copy's of this on dvd...why isn't there?...can anyone help please?

[@rickymowatt5833]

Malcolm stent his mom use to be my Sunday school teacher at Grenfell Baptist Church. And Malcolm use to organise the Harvest festival.

[@strat4ordgirl]

What a bostin video! This wuz my Brum god bless it ❤️

[@comoxmanor1669]

Love this Born in Balsall heath in 1948 .Italian grandad chef at the Midland hotel . my dad chef at Pattisons on corporation st .then Rackhams .

[@PKacey]

Ahh! You can take the kid out of Birmingham, but you can't take Birmingham out of the kid! It's been many years since I lived there, but it's STILL 'home' to me. :)

[@captainchaos2671]

its being ruined now

[@markhemming318]

Brum has always been cosmopolitan. It doesn't matter where your parents were born, if you were born in Brum then you're a Brummie and should be proud of it.

[@rogerdoger3347]

@@markhemming318 its not cosmopolitan Birmingham at all its very racist and segregated and majority are white areas are segregated, London is heavily multicultural and tolerant to the rest of the UK.

[@markhemming318]

@@rogerdoger3347 I've lived in Birmingham all my life it's the most multicultural city in the country. You're chatting bubbles. You see a band - wagon and jump on. Name me one part of Birmingham where there's segregation?

[@rogerdoger3347]

@@markhemming318 Sutton Coldfield is white majority and racist, King's Norton, Sheldon , kings Heath ,druids heath maypole are mainly white areas and segregated ,small heath ,Aston Handsworth ballsall heath are more Asian and ethic ,Birmingham is not multicultural like London is Birmingham is segregated and locals are racist and don't integrate with each other people don't mix and there is no community or care in Birmingham people just keep to themselves, majority of blacks and foreigners go to London to find thier community there Is more integration and cultures in London than anywhere else in the UK. LONDON is the capital all immigrants go to London first.

[@tonimoseley7885]

Proud of my roots. Percy Moseley was my grandad.

[@patrick6662]

Excellent , very nostalgic and educational , thanks for posting this gem !!

[@pascalomathghamhna4883]

An Irishman from 60's to 70's Brum. I love this city.

[@zaperfan]

Fantastic brings back so many memories

[@Havencheese]

I'm from Melbourne, a city historically of much higher fortune via 19th century goldfield wealth but as much as I love Melburnians, I love Brummies too. Wonderful, earnest and friendly people, real. I occasionally heard lower opinions of the Brum throughout England when I lived there and the accent itself but I'll never have a bar of it. I've loved the Villa passionately from afar for decades and I know that'll rankle a few who read this but I love the multiculturalism, the people, the openness, the accent and the laid back attitude of "Beearming-goom."

[@tiltonroadbirmingham1153]

Loved who passionately ?

[@merrolmichael6886]

A brilliant documentary! I was born and bred in brum and this took me places i'd never forgotten. But you should make another one because you missed a lot out. What about the rag and bone man, the bread man and the milkman? school trips on the steam train to dudley zoo/ the christmas parties put on by the factory owners for their employees kids, the great presents they used to give out by the father christmas? The onion fair at handsworth park, there's just so much! we had a fairytale childhood then. Aston Hall, Handsworth park, the lights in town for christmas...

[@johngillon5353]

merrol, I reckon you have got the onion fair wrong it was held at the serpentine ground at witton. the serpentine ground was also used as a coach and car park for the football supporters attending the matches at villa park,

[@musiclover5023]

My mother worked at Wolsley Hughes in Witton I loved the annual Christmas party they organised for employees children and the trips to pantomimes. Happy memories.

[@chriscook7077]

Love it!. Proud to be a Brummie😊

[@pilarguerrero3405]

I loved the film, thank you so much for sharing it!

[@geraldhutchins1023]

I am proud to be from birmingham

[@myboxoftricks]

Ah, my good friend Tara Chinn singing, and her lovely old man Carl. Very interesting watch, am so glad this is online.

[@maggiereid874]

Best video of Old Brum I've seen

[@justintai8725]

Fascinating and brilliant video thanks so much

[@monsieurlewop]

The bloke talking at 14:00 is Big John, who used to phone in to Malcolm Boyden on Radio WM as 'George Harris of Yardley' and cause absolute uproar.

[@zaperfan]

Ron Smith is so passionate I'm a Brummie but its not the same now sad to say.

[@fukwatshit]

RIP Birmingham

[@sheelahales4738]

Birmingham is not dead.

[@jonesroberts3640]

@@sheelahales4738 Birmingham is a shithole no character or charm

[@afz3003]

You missed the point of this documentary. That being Birmingham is ever changing in the face of progress. As the slogan goes "Forward!" If you want Birmingham to be how it was in the 50s or even 80s, it would be a poverty stricken mess and everyone would move to other places. Love it or hate it, the many immigrants in Birmingham have provided business and imporved the overall gdp of the city. Many people view Birmingham in the past with nostalgia for when they were young, but forget about just how poor the city used to be. If you truly love Birmingham, embrace the change and move 'Forward' aswell. Because the city is not slowing down for anyone, and if you take a good look at the history books. It never has done. So no Birmingham is not dead, it has moved on, and you have failed to do so along with it.

[@marktaurus206]

@@sheelahales4738 Birmingham is dead its a depressing city full of miserable people .

[@Blossom1948]

Can't beat our great city...proud to be a brummie!...good on ya carl and malcolm!

[@johnstonralston2343]

Great bands came out of Birmingham.... The Move , ELO , Moody Blues , UB40 , Slade , Dexys Midnight Runners

[@intruderalarmacademy9701]

what about Black Sabbath

[@rw6391]

@@intruderalarmacademy9701 I know,how could he forget!

[@markhemming318]

Duran, Duran. Ocean colour scene, The Beat, The Twang and many more. Incidentally, Slade were from Wolverhampton.

[@chriscook7077]

Dont forget Steve Winwood and The Spencer Davis group.

[@davidm9316]

ah well ,I enjoyed that 17 05 19 is when I watched it, what wonderful songs .and the bull ring one reminds me of a song that used to be sung at taking the micky out of aston villa ,and the end song YOURE OK reminds me of an old tv theme music song,it sounds familiar was it ever used for a tv programme , oh well im off to watch some more of these great videos,

[@shehran6936]

*Beng beng beng then ya bung it in the bin!* I live in Sutton now but originally from Aston, near Aston Park.

[@intruderalarmacademy9701]

I used to go out with a girl from a back-to-back in Summer Lane, Aston her name was Eileen and she had a younger sister : two lovely young ladies . the year would be about 1962 and they were Mods with long straight hair. Any one remember them.

[@007lovediamonds6]

My home town born and bred I love Birmingham 🇬🇧

[@karlkuttup]

thats the brum i first was amazed at as a 6 year old only thing missing is the concrete king kong below the rotunda and subway,as a 19 year old i had 2 stalls in the rag market and 1 in the flea market ,,till the prices to rent them went crazy ,the killed brum when they pulled the markets out ,dissgrace of the council,destroyed 6 markets across brum centre for what ,a faceless heartless have and have not city

[@Mozpam]

I don't know why it finished abruptly, but it was actually only half way through so I'm going to watch the rest now!

[@colinjennings3661]

Carl chinn a brummie? You d never had guessed!

[@joeblack8915]

I'm a Brummie and Chinn talks with an accent more akin to the Black Country (and Birmingham isn't in the Black Country). Unforunately, this is the accent used by TV dramas to portray a Brummie accent (which it isn't) but unfortunately the rest of the populace just accept it as fact - somewhat akin to the nonsense that people who come from the West Country talk like pirates. He also uses the word 'bostin' quite a lot. which again is more akin to the Black Country. My parents would be in their nineties now, and in all the years I knew them they never uttered the word 'bostin' - and they were proper Brummies who taked with a proper Brummie accent, born in the heart of working class, industrial Birmingham. Personally I can't stand Chinn. I think he's an arrogant prick.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@joeblack8915 Get your medication checked mate, that was way over the top.

[@Ann65.]

This is a lovely video. Thank You! May I share on my Channel, giving credit and your Channel link in the description? ❤

[@quokkapirquish6825]

The legend that is Carl Chinn

[@juansebastianmontoya3994]

I really like the bremmie accent, i'd like to get it.

[@pascalomathghamhna4883]

Juan sebstian Montoya yaow want to taak brummie.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Many none Brummies, mistake the 'Black Country' accent, as Brummie. No disrespect, ALL accents are good in their own ways. It is said, that you only need to travel 20 miles, and accents will change, slightly. For such a small country, that is amazing.

[@zaynemal5413]

Birmingham accent is hated all over the UK not the most attractive accent.

[@merrolmichael6886]

When the rag and bone man would park his horse outside the pub, all mothers in the street would be ready behind their doors with a shovel in hand, to run and scoop up the dung for fertilizer, it was a scream!! You don't get the laughs we had back then.

[@MrDaiseymay]

That as one of my jobs, scooping up the 'Jobs'. before anyone else. There were several tradesmen with horses, Breadman, Milkman. Rag& Bone, Firewood seller. Old iron man etc

[@maryd4726]

My family were from Aston/Handsworth back to at least early 18thC. If my Nan could see how it is now she would be so resentful. She lived to see the start of it in the '60's. Last time I visited was 1969 and the doors to the house were still unlocked. I personally know two people who were physically attacked as they travelled through the area, one on a bus, my brother - he asked someone to stop throwing litter around, and one woman who was hit in the face for sneezing. She lives in Australia now.

[@Mozpam]

This is great! I've just sat and watched it all the way through. What a treasure - thanks for posting it. shame it finished quite abruptly - is there a part two?

[@peterobinson3678]

I just posted the Telly Sevalas advertainment... and suddenly this keeps cropping up. :)

[@stermindelves4251]

Please don’t take this off. As a son of a Birmingham electrician please leave this so that people know, learn and understand about our great city.

[@carolinekearney5264]

brazen bolshy brummie I am. x

[@georgedeathe4683]

Brum was a dump in the 50's-60's when I was a kid, I don't it much better now. well out of it.

[@paulmanton7817]

What about the ironing.ohhhhhhh sod that.😂😂😂😂😂😂 Go girl😂😂😂

[@spsppspsspsp8348]

It’s like a massive croydon

[@nigelhamilton815]

No props for me mucker. Good vid.

[@crumplezone1]

Brummie till I die :)

[@dragonofthewest8305]

Thank you so much

[@intruderalarmacademy9701]

wear yow bin an wear ya gewing ... Brummies aways user their 'Ts' like Butta for Butter but now like the cockney's they say buha.

[@TLCuk]

Can you please send me a copy of this film? Please, please, please :o)

[@chriscoughlan5221]

its a bit dated

[@Kate1Chopin]

As is all of history! That makes it more interesting to see, how the people and buildings looked and saw the world around them.

[@tellitlikeitis-rg4ny]

carl chin and his over exagerated brumagen accent im a real brummy boy from nechels ,

[@eileendewell9416]

l agree l find Carl chinn brummie accent is false puts it on !!!

[@williambruce918]

Carl sounds the chancer he and his uncle always were - all mouth and sod all in the pants

[@Blossom1948]

I love Carl have been in his company many times a gent if ever there was!..he doesn't put any airs and graces on at all ...strange comments here...

[@tiltonroadbirmingham1153]

Brum

[@williambruce918]

helped milkman on Sat am. so he paid me into Blues. 4th time they beat Liverpool who took the lead, but Blues did a Lazarus and baying crowd for, 7, 8, 9 goals peed me off - so Reds got a new fan despite 1-9 loss. Then came Shanks.....Bob, King Kenny and history - no regrets, though Blues did win League Cup before Reds won it - 4 years running. The joke was and as Villa had FA Cup stolen more times than Blues have won it - still true, 60 years later. I know you can take it with a smile Tilton coz you're from BH, like me you're from BH. I left back in '59; lived in a few spots - Caribbean since '97.

[@peterobinson3678]

kinda interesting- ish, tho. But Dorset is better. *ducks.