Migration Stories - It's Corby for Me

[@Neppy101]

My grandparents moved down from Glasgow to work in Corby, so I'm one of the descendents (now I live in Scotland, ironically!). I was brought up on Scottish stuff, I always got my Oor Wullie/The Broons books at Christmas, and I understood Glaswegian well so that prepared me well for moving up, haha. Heavy Edinburgh accents are actually harder to understand. Corby had a REALLY rough time back in the 90's when I grew up there, but the town has improved a lot and is actually quite nice now. I like visiting and seeing how it's coming along. I like the song!

[@jimlittle588]

Never forget your a scot, people try with all there might to take away our heritage but they never will, jim little, bristol scottish

[@rdg71-o9t]

Great to see the Late John Douglas. John was a great example of Corby. Coming from hard Conditions in Scotland. That generation came to Corby with a good work ethic, honesty and a determination for a better life.

[@Roads2LaughTale]

Using this video for my geography a-level. Song stuck in my song man.

[@jrr2617]

John Douglas passed away on 19th December 2016.

[@220773]

R.I.P., Weegie. ;-)

[@thomassaunders7914]

i came into corby my head like a stone being on the doll better time I had known i landed a job and so did my wife oh the best move i ever have made in my life its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know there's Geordies and brummies and people and people bestoke theres scots and theres ziodists and all kind of folk there's tapies and yorknies and cortnies as well and peoples who's origins I could not tell i went to the council to get a wee flat or even a house i don't mind about that but when they told me how much was there rent i said i'd be better off in a tent its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know i'm due at the steal works a work day and night my wife makes the crispy when ever we fight the reason were happy is clear they e ken when i'm sixty two the wife's sixty ten its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know there's plenty of pubs and theres plenty of clips a placy of folks we all can aquis but thinking in tobal the best place for me is working me resty and the B E E C its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know there's people in corby won't call it home but i've settled down and down ever wrong i've got my wee job and i've got my wee wife and ill stay in corby the rest of me life its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know

[@grannyseven7256]

Kettering is brawl ??

[@bluebelldays7650]

No not brawl, he said braw.. This word in Scottish means lovely.

[@snappynapster]

im at 25 stevie way at the moment

[@220773]

Old Protestant Scotland movin' out to England: Corby's folk are straight Scotsmen the way they used to be before Scotland itself incorporated Irish folks who had to flee home. Scotsmen were as anti-English as they were un-Irish and thoroughly Protestant, let's face it. They could be fiercely Scottish and at the same time not share the 'Celtic identity' with the Irish, yet still sounding very much anti-English. I'm saying that without any shade of disrespect towards the irish, let's state it clear. It's just a wee bit of history.

[@archibalddribblewhaitshall5685]

What a load of pony. Get that chip off your shoulder. In all my years, bar the odd eeijit, there has always been a great mix of Prod and Catholic. To say they were all Proddy Calvinist English hating Scots Nationalists is not fact, it’s BS.

[@220773]

@@archibalddribblewhaitshall5685 I was talking about the obvious majority of us Scots. And I didn't say

[@truefalse207]

@@220773 Calling yourself British is literally calling yourself English. British & English are synonymous and both carry the same stereotype and used interchangeably world-wide in every language. Britishness is an extension of Englishness used to whitewash Irish, Welsh, Scots identities for a greater English/British identity.

[@220773]

@@truefalse207 Okay, after this sort of crap I'm done.

[@nichotto]

@@truefalse207 probably everyone here in the UK understands that. In sports if a Scot, Welshman or northern Irish person wins they are British but an English person is always English and never British. They only reclaim their nationality if they lose or have done something wrong, usually the ‘fans’.

[@thomassaunders7914]

I came into corby my head like a stone being on the doll better time I had known i landed a job and so did my wife oh the best move i ever have made in my life its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know there's Geordies and brummies and people and people bestoke theres scots and theres ziodists and all kind of folk there's tapies and yorknies and cortnies as well and peoples who's origins I could not tell i went to the council to get a wee flat or even a house i don't mind about that but when they told me how much was there rent i said i'd be better off in a tent its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know i'm due at the steal works a work day and night my wife makes the crispy when ever we fight the reason were happy is clear they e ken when i'm sixty two the wife's sixty ten its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know there's plenty of pubs and theres plenty of clips a placy of folks we all can aquis but thinking in tobal the best place for me is working me resty and the B E E C its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know there's people in corby won't call it home but i've settled down and down ever wrong i've got my wee job and i've got my wee wife and ill stay in corby the rest of me life its corby for me its corby for me if you live in corby I'm sure your agree though kettering is brough Northampton i know prin bonnie corby the best that i know