Blackheath, Rowley Regis 1987

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Gosh, I remember Blackheath market - my Nan used to buy bags of scratchings, sweets and broken biscuits from there.........happy memories!

[@ub40jojo]

And big slabs of madeira cake

[@matthisco1517]

Remember those days well, you can see elizabeth prout gardens being built next to the malt shovel. The aids advert too was massive in the 80s remember all the tv adverts and leaflets. What a great snapshot of time gone by. Video and photographs are so important and very precious. Thanks for uploading.

[@jasonw3652]

Wow I remember all of this, I was still at School in Feb 1987 but used to travel on the 241 bus from Halesowen to Dudley daily and it passed through Blackheath a few years later. I used to buy all my hi-fi separates from a shop on a road to the left of the main traffic island, called WMEC. Was fantastic stuff they had in there, this was over 33 years ago and I've still got it all and it all works as it did when I bought it. Looking at the video it does look like a trading estate tbh but that's how it was back then. Love the Austin Princess / ambassador car that went by EP Gaunt Funeral directors....What a name for a funeral director ! Excellent archive footage Jared. Brings back a lot of memories. Thank you :)

[@evzbaby]

Fantastic Video, I was hoping to see myself driving by in my old Sierra Saphire.. It ws brand new then!

[@trevorpriest8320]

The pub sign you see at the end of the clip, the Ashley hotel was run by my aunt and uncle for many years. Memories are all that is left.

[@sailorette1]

My husband's grandfmother's family ran a store there, many years ago. St. Paul's was their parish. Thank you so much, Jared, for sharing this valuable footage.

[@390h8er]

Some nice footage here. I remember the old Woolworths (now Heron Foods). The market is still going strong. Sadly no more Cortinas, BL stuff or WMT Fleetlines on the streets today.

[@linzianna]

Born n bred here so was my father and his parents. Last name Hooper. I was 5 when this was made. It ain't changed too much. There's more added to than taken away but we can all agree we were glad to see the back of the underground toilets lol

[@ssj2matt]

I was 1 when this was filmed lol. Was keeping an eye out for my Grandad lol.

[@crustychris2]

It looks so grotty, it's funny how I never realised it at the time.

[@foo4572]

Great video capturing interesting moments in time ... I always wonder what happened to the individuals you see going about their business .. I would've been 18 in this year

[@littlebigmanlbm]

Great video thank you some much for making the effort to put it on KZbin

[@philhill3359]

Excellent video - I did my work experience at Priest's: 4:20 in 1982.

[@JulesB-zv9dp]

Me too in 1988. Those old crt tv's in the wooden cabinets weighed a tonne.

[@DoLpHiNaToR]

4:25 a shot of F E Sidaway, Son and Co. I started working there in June 1988, sixteen months after this was taken. Can't believe how old everything looks back then!!

[@jasonw3652]

Was FE Sidaway a solicitor ? The name brought back something when I used to get the bus back to Halesowen

[@DoLpHiNaToR]

@@jasonw3652 Chartered Accountants

[@lindamaydew5826]

Takes me back to happy times was born in Old Hill my stomping ground.

[@زهرةاليماني-ض7و]

❤️

[@tutornick]

great film - I remember the record store next to the market.

[@neiledmonds2351]

I was born in 91 and these i remember too 😊😊😊

[@bumberchuff]

i helped in the demolishing of the underground toilets on the island there...one of the jobs i had working with sandwell council....bleedin stunk rotten..lol.

[@electricmeatdisco7250]

I used to use those toilets & I can confirm the stink !!

[@sphort54]

@@electricmeatdisco7250 . It was o.k. until you broke the ‘crust’ that had formed on top of the lake of urine that was down there…..I could never hold my breath long enough.

[@DannyBoy777777]

Not changed much lol. Pretty much the same, with new buildings

[@BlackCountryHA]

Excellent video *****. The video really is a sign of the times back in the 1980's. Very interesting to see the location of our head office at the top of the High Street, where the High Street and the Bypass meet (shown at 2m.19s)

[@neilemery9007]

actually your head office was in shell corner and you had to go up the steps to the office in 1980s about 1981 , i remember becaus i went there with my mom and she got our house from black country housing in vicarage road

[@bimmerboy8]

Thanks for sharing

[@nowhereman5119]

It may be 1987 - but it looks more like it was filmed using 8mm cine camera back in 1967! Maybe video upload quality is limited.

[@JaredWhittingham]

Maybe the quality was crap to start with. It was filmed using a Panasonic full size VHS camcorder which weighed a ton and had to sit on my shoulder it was that big. I replaced it with a Sony Hi8 some years later when quality and affordability improved.

[@paulockold7103]

Happy memories

[@DanMcIntosh]

Nice vid mate

[@jack7431]

This is fantastic! You don't have anymore but of Dudley at all do you?

[@JaredWhittingham]

Thanks Jack, I have a few on VHS which I will be converting when I get chance but unfortunately I didn't video Dudley at the time. :(

[@GrayDogNowIDK]

@@JaredWhittingham is this all you have of blackheath? Just curious

[@GreatBarrWolf]

Great market.

[@OFFICIALANTIK]

Good old blackheath my hometown i just gotta say u cor half tell the difference to blackheath nowadays

[@OFFICIALANTIK]

@Super Kami Guru true mainly fast food shops now which is a shame

[@OFFICIALANTIK]

@Super Kami Guru with how many there is its hard to believe that they are all doing good or probz dodgy lol

[@OFFICIALANTIK]

@Super Kami Guru lool can believe it if im honest and they wonder why its a shithole. They should try allowing shops that am more appealing instead of food.

[@Grace-by8ck]

Oh my god I know all these places so well (BTW I'm a kid) this is so weird

[@ActuallySocial_YT]

Sameee

[@JaredWhittingham]

I have a couple more but they are not Blackheath and they are on VHS. Once I can locate a half decent player I will convert them too.

[@RupyAvaani]

Omg Blackheath market

[@StephenWilliams]

I was teaching at Britannia High School then.

[@christopherhulse8385]

Jesus! those Aids posters put the fear of god into us as teenagers, I was almost afraid to kiss a girl as a 17 year old in 1987 for fear of dying of ignorance!

[@DavidHalfordsLane]

😂😂

[@slim01384]

i am the great grandson of freddie westwood from blackheath

[@bugze666]

The demographic has changed somewhat since!!

[@Present1211]

WHERES SAINS URIES AND WILKOS

[@andrewguestford2318]

Spot the foreigners!! There ay none👍👍good old days.

[@benwherlock9869]

AIDS written in massive ten foot lettering. 😆 It was pretty hard to ignore the poster campaign.