Brierley Hill Turks Head Pub

[@wumptywumpty4456]

As a kid growing up in 70s Brierley Hill, I always held the place in high esteem, and would always be proud to say I come from Brierley Hill! That culminated one year when me and my mate went to Turkey, early 90s if memory serves, and we'd gone on a day trip somewhere and ended up at a restaurant and I remember talking to a guy opposite, he came from Manchester somewhere, anyway, all of a sudden he said, you come from Brierley Hill don't you? My mouth dropped, as most people, usually say you're from Birmingham - which doesn't get a too polite response back, as any Black Country bloke would confirm I'm sure, any way, I said yes, how do you know - he was a lorry driver delivering/picking up goods to the freight terminal that used to be down Moor Street every week and he'd recognised the accent! Unfortunately, I travel through Brierley Hill still, due to my job and my heart sinks to see it as it is now, as to how I remember it growing up; same with Dudley, Lye, Cradley to name a few - all once thriving towns with atmosphere, where you felt safe going about your business! Something went very, very wrong with society and how it conducts itself and the respect, a lot of its residents once had towards their town and each other, has long since gone. Such a shame, some call it progress, but, and I don't think I'm looking through rose tinted specs when I say, I know what era I'd rather be in!

[@deandavies9576]

im from gornal but live not far away in sedgley now i know brierly hill well and can only echo your words, i was an 80s child and in this day and age everything is much different unfortunately for the worse

[@das5813]

That 'Something ' was when they voted in the EVIL Thatcher and her Neoconservatives. I was also a truck driver running out of Moor St. I remember once a rookie driver loading in front of me, I ran over to Andy the forklift driver to stop him loading him just in time. I told him he's a bloody idiot using round tree trunks as bearers for the long ingots. I thought common sense would've told him not to use the round tree trunks as they would've rolled the long ingots over the back going up moor st. Living around Bilston where I took on the Wolverhampton Council, never a more blatant den of thieves. I won a very important case against Wolverhampton and the Neoconservatives back in the 1990s. I visited Yeovil couple weeks ago and that too is devastated by the money grabing bestards in the council with most of the shops empty. They're gonna destroy everything in the country before long just because of their tax avoidance scams. They've designed the investors to move their money into tax havens where they can get exemption for tax purposes and use it for inward investments again tax free and with government guarantees. This is still their scam. Of course we should be blaming the idiots that voted for them, but when your promised things from liars how do you know what's right and wrong. But public enemy number one is still a Tory voter who believes everything they say. See, RAF recruiting flying pigs and they believe them.

[@AA-69]

It's much the same everywhere my friend, But we've still got grit in us 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@NickyCyclone]

Had a walk down Brierley Hill high street yesterday while my partner was at a class with our little 'un ... Christ what a dump! Such a shame.

[@liamkatt6434]

Turk's Head, changed beyond recognition. Indian restaurant. The working class of Britain and every other country are the building blocks of that country. the so called elite are the moss that grows on and feeds off those proud bricks. I am happy to have worked hard and I love these people.

[@andypicken7848]

liamkatt6434 You may well be correct but the "elite" will always be the winners

[@direktorpresident]

They were articulate; independent; and they shared common hardships. This produced resolute, diverse characters which collectively made a dynamic and irrepressible society, the workshop and moral reservoir of the West. Lost now amongst the neutral pabulum of our entitled masses

[@hunterluxton5976]

You make these people sound almost mythical with your misty eyed romanticism, which you have articulated quite superbly. The unvarnished truth however, was never so epic. I grew up in South Wales in the 1970s and yes there were resolute and uncompromising characters in my memory full of dark humour, Shavian wit and pumped up burvera. Lots of them were idiots too, with low aspirations and even fewer choices. Most I recall were provincial minded, not particularly self aware and were on fast track to an early grave brought on by alcohol and nicotinic abuse. My own father was in the front of the queue. For what it's worth, have a read of "The Uses of Literacy" by Richard Hoggart. It's an examination of working class culture in the northern towns of England. A great read.

[@toaste9026]

Id hardly call brierly hill folk entitled today. When did you last visit brierly hill?

[@peterryder5234]

Wow not seen my grandad since he died when I was 3, 47 years ago Great video

[@CityHistoryTrailsNottingham]

How lovely. Which one was he? What was his name?

[@richardletherbarrow8367]

My grandad is in this. He used to do the pigeon clocks and is the chap with glasses on reading the times out at 22.30

[@CityHistoryTrailsNottingham]

It's lovely that a snapshot of his world was captured on film. 😊

[@markhooper4532]

Winnie Wallace...What a fun guy .. He tells about the dust on his lungs between drags on his cigarette, lovely

[@SpacecatMoonbeam]

I wonder what these old gentlemen would make of our world today. Sixty odd years later and things are so different.

[@peteraston4753]

76 years young and it is depressing how councils and goverments have stripped the character and culture out of places like the black country

[@jamesparker8464]

First broadcast Sunday 10th January 1965, 9:45pm, BBC Two.

[@hitchannel7777]

Thank you for a great upload

[@gileslogan8732]

This is wonderful, thanks you for sharing

[@Canalcoholic]

Uncle had a fruit & veg stall in the market, my Dad’s first job was at Round Oak Steelworks, I spent several hours a week in Brierley Hill Swimming Baths, and worked my college holidays at Royal Brierley or Stuart Crystal. I remember quite a few of those pubs they showed. Drove through there a couple of weeks back and barely recognised the place.

[@StepDub]

We used to go to the Brierly Hill baths twice a week in the evenings, three families. It was much more modern than Stourbridge, where I came from. Happy days!😊

[@stephendavies925]

This is why its important these videos were done, people see their relations of a timegone by, great people proper characters salt of our country

[@Wench64]

We have all lost our heritage, sad times, pubs are longer the same or families

[@tubecated_development]

It’s easy to correct. Just ‘unwoke’ the British pub. It’s a 10 step process. 1. No women. 2. No children 3. No food except nuts on bar. 4. No jukebox 5. No TV 6. No mobile phones 7. Smoking reinstated (tobacco only) 8. No vapes 9. No drink-driving laws 10. Put the signs back outside that say “No dogs, certain ethnicity, or certain ethnicity” (I can’t even type it because this woke channel or woke tube will delete my comment) Number 11 is much more difficult. How to get men back in pubs now they are acting like women and spending their money like women, ie drinking American soft drinks, vaping, aimlessly driving around in cars, parking up in retail parks, hanging out at McDonalds, Subway, KFC, 24 hr service stations, eating Dunkin Donuts, watching KZbin, going on Instagram, TikTok, dating apps, playing video games, eating Burger King, getting their hair done, getting the 41st expensive tattoo, eating ‘curries’ and drinking ‘lager’, buying £2 cans of ‘American Craft Ale’ pish from the supermarket, sitting on the sofa watching Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, etc etc etc…ALL of their money goes here not in the pubs it’s no wonder pubs are dying. So it’s an 11 step process really. The first ten are easy.

[@prodbycjbeatsss]

Who is the singer from the song at the start? The song is called Ballad Of Accounting but I need this version.

[@prodbycjbeatsss]

Its the right song and Ewan MacColl is the singer but the version in this video I cant find.

[@lukejones6237]

It’s Ewan’s song but he’s not the singer of this version

[@bullyinspace]

Them days am dead

[@londonwilde]

I found this fascinating. I come from the south coast and I’m not hearing a Birmingham accent at all, it sounds like a mix of country and northern. It was a bit confusing as I was expecting to hear more nasal tones. I know with the coal industry in the East Midlands that you’d hear people in Nottingham sounding like people from south Sheffield because of the inter-trading and possibly movement of people working up and down that sort of the country and perhaps with the Black Country there was a similar thing with Lancashire. I agree about the style of story telling they were really intense and watchable.

[@terrancedactielle5460]

This accent is slightly different to a Birmingham accent, these people are from the Black Country but many people get them confused.

[@Johnny_Seven]

What a great documentary. I am from Wordsley, or Wudsley to keep in the spirit of things. If this is from 1965 that's about the time I used to go to the Saturday morning matinee at the Danilo Cinema which is just up the road from the Turks Head. I kinda remember this old pub, but does anyone know when the new Turks head turned up and did they knock the old one down or just reface it?

[@flipperf6484]

Hi John...it was knocked down in the 60's and rebuilt...my mom and dad ran the blue brick which is shown at the beginning and she said she remembered it being knocked down.

[@Johnny_Seven]

@@flipperf6484 That's interesting, thanks for that. Yes the Blue Brick, another good pub. That's shut now isn't it?

[@flipperf6484]

@John Ameson No m8 it's still open.

[@Johnny_Seven]

@@flipperf6484 Oh right, I will have to pop in for a pint. Not been in there for donkeys years. Thanks for the info mate.

[@jasonthornton6657]

My gt gt grandparents were from wordsley/ mt pleasant before emigrating to Australia

[@wobbers99]

11:46 wow!

[@MrPercy112]

Excellent, ta! 👍

[@desthomas8970]

Well I'll go to Brierley hill.

[@MrPercy112]

By way of Ocker Bonk? 😉

[@adrianrichards247]

Have you seen Peggy’s Ose

[@Donnies93]

No sound for anyone else? might need to reupload it

[@Canalcoholic]

Did you give up in the first 6 seconds?

[@Donnies93]

@@Canalcoholic Funny

[@johnhodges7891]

What year is this ??? I was born 1967 . I reckon 63. Can some 1 tell me plze

[@CityHistoryTrailsNottingham]

It was 1965. A BBC programme that was part of the Landmarks Series.

[@uditfonseka]

Does anyone of or remember Ramsay and Daisy Burrows?

[@deeppurple883]

It just chipped away at your life force right up to the 90s. The drudgery of surviving, mind numbing. Thing's are a little better now.

[@RaVeR076]

What a sad byegone era

[@TheRattyBiker]

Fella at 10:37 - I'm *sure* if you lived 200 years you'd be *begging* for a murderer by 2019 - let alone 2024!!!

[@hunterluxton5976]

We need subtitles.

[@linzieloo1]

How about asking politely,

[@terrancedactielle5460]

Yow doe nid um. Cor spayk proper yow cor.

[@TheJimmyblue]

Not black country accent in sight nor sound.....

[@tubecated_development]

Of course it is.