Rosie and Jim - Filming Locations (Birmingham and The Black Country)

[@Saint_Dan132]

blisss rip john what a great creation a massive part of me and my sisters childhood

[@robnewman6101]

R.I.P John Culiffe 1933-2018. Of Postman Pat & Rosie and Jim.

[@sajtheboss2192]

Rosie and Jim always holds a special place in my heart and I can’t believe I found the locations of the show . Also I love how the locsons look so calm and buttful just like the show

[@marcusblackwell2372]

I was born 5 years afrer this show ended and am not from the UK, but I still think that this is the best Ragdoll production

[@Chevy-jordan]

TotsTV would like a word.

[@CarysCreatesThings]

This is lovely. My family moved to Birmingham when I was 9, but even before that we’d regularly visit my nan who lived in the Black Country, so I was very familiar with a lot of the filming locations. I used to go to Merry Hill with my friends a lot, so the Supermarket episode makes me feel nostalgic. Fun fact: The Elmore Mall from The Amazing World of Gumball is a CGI recreation of Merry Hill. I now live in London, but I had to go back to Brum for a hospital appointment last week, and I took a walk along the canal and passed the Old Turn Junction. Thank you for the nostalgia trip. This show was very special to me, and it holds up well. It was funny and wholesome, and John Cunliffe had such a kind, calming demeanour. I was very sad when he died.

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

Thank you so much! Your comment means a lot! The video was a lot of work and I enjoyed it immensely.

[@jacamo1993]

John culiffe was my friends uncle. Such a nice bloke. He used to own a music shop. My mum bought a ukulele from him which i still own to this day.

[@Anonymous_Auteur]

A brilliant blast from the past! You did such a great job putting this together and matching up the locations. Voiceover is perfect too. Thanks for making it ☺

[@TheVisualMediaArchive98]

I would love to see the complete series collection of Rosie & Jim to be released on DVD officially. All the way from 1990-2000.

[@AndySessford]

Remember watching Rosie&Jim as a kid myself 🤣 such nostalgia and very good! Big part of everyone's childhood in the 90s ❤

[@paulwheeler4283]

Growing up in the early 90s in Birmingham I remember this show very well I used to Adore Rosie and Jim I remember the ragdoll moored up next to the ICC I'm going to visit it as a the child

[@cjcadventures]

Great video thank you for bringing back many local memories 👍

[@parkerproductions4546]

Yes, yes, yes! As a huge Ragdoll Productions fan, I absolutely love this! Real locations from my home county was always one of the highlights in a R+J episode! One cool bit of trivia: in the Rosie and Jim Poetry tape narrated by John Cunliffe, he mentions the construction going on around Brindley Place in the Lock episode. Ofcourse those of us local to Birmingham will know how much it has developed into the attractive, upmarket place it turned into from the mere barron foundations seen in the episode..! Thank you for your work on this. I hope there will be more Rosie and Jim videos like this one in the future :)

[@neiluk2006]

Love this. More nostalgia. Thanks again Jack.

[@star86703]

Fantastic video jack well done 🤩👍

[@two-wheel-touring]

I didn't realise it was filmed 100 yards from my house in Wordsley at the glass cone. The main factory was demolished about 1999, just leaving the cone and a few buildings by the canal.

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

I did wonder where the glass making would've been as I had a look around all the little craft shops dotted about and the displays of glass making equipment and couldn't see it. Makes sense now you've explained that bit was demolished.

[@adamsmart7971]

Excellent work! Such a well made behind the scenes video. Would love to see more like this.

[@alexwells6876]

I loved the Ragdoll shop, being a Brummie myself, when we visited Stratford we always had to visit the shop. One of my favourite parts was the Rosie and Jim boat that you could sit in and watch episodes, me and my sister could have stayed there all day! This was really interesting, i might visit someone of the locations myself.

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

Yes I visited the shop a few times when I was a kid, it's a shame there's not many photos or footage of it online. I have a vague recollection of what was dotted about.

[@alexwells6876]

@@JacksThrowbackAttack Yeah, i think that promotional video for the shop is one of the only bits of footage online. I know there was also the Tots TV section which had 3 telephones i think? You could "call" each character. But like you, it's very vague.

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

@@alexwells6876 There is some footage in the BBC Teletubbies Documentary from 1998 which is on KZbin. Yeah the three telephones, each one played the theme music from a different show (one for Tots TV, one for Rosie and Jim and one for Brum) and there were coloured postboxes you could put drawings in. I seem to remember there was a little outside bit with a painting of Donkey in his shed on the wall. There was also a mini Teletubby land as well. The very last time I visited they had a section dedicated to Boobah as that was the new big show at the time.

[@ryanstephenkristoferkearns1319]

I live in the West Midlands as well and I remember watching Rosie and Jim when I was a kid and I know a lot of the locations as featured in the episodes.

[@smilly9]

Good video, I didn’t realise how much of it was around Birmingham. I know one episode about a coracle was filmed in Bewdley Museum.

[@Envi270]

i live where this was filmed and never knew!

[@danielledewitt1]

I loved Rosie and Jim.

[@davidoliver1992]

Loved this video Jack!!! Such great memories, do you or anyone know what the piano music was that was played during the episodes??

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

It would've been composed by Andrew McCrorie-Shand who did the theme music, he composed pretty much all the music throughout Rosie and Jim as well as a lot of Ragdoll's programmes. Sadly no public release.

[@davidoliver1992]

@@JacksThrowbackAttack awww that’s such a shame!!! Is there anyone we can contact do u reckon?

[@chrisfarri8914]

Live very close to the glass cone in wordsley. Mom never realised it was the same place as the show 😂

[@joeaustin2919]

I do remember watching Rosie & Jim on video

[@yuriHellsing]

The round about at @5:30 wasn't that also featured in Bitsa?

[@tillyannamcdonagh7363]

My childhood thank you John Culiffe 🥹🥹

[@nathanslife2297]

Could you do a vid of Brum filming locations?

[@JamieBoy-ij2ri]

Really very interesting Jack I’ve always wanted to visit where it was filmed and if you ever visit the river again go for a fish and see if you can find John’s lost hat 😂😂 RIP Fizgog.. where have those 6 years gone.

[@arthuramazons2406]

Very good love Rosie and Jim

[@josephward1071]

John Cunliffe made Postman Pat and Rosie and Jim

[@ryanstephenkristoferkearns1319]

The engine house down on Netheron canal had a steam engine in it, it is on display in America as far as I know, the area is where my Nan and Grandad used to live at and I remember walking along the canal when I was a kid.

[@Disneyfanatic7204]

Brilliant video. Back in December last year I actually went to the butterfly farm where the butterfly episode was filmed. Would you do a video based on filming locations of some of the outdoor episodes of Tots TV? I know very few of some of the locations.

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

Glad you liked the video! It's unlikely I'll do another because it took me over a year to complete this video.

[@tomwheeler8728]

I first seen this since when I was a kid. I don't remember much

[@DamiensTrainsandTravels]

Been to Victoria Bridge on Severn Valley Railway where John passed in episode called Steam.

[@thingstodoinguernseychanne4950]

And john was still the best man for doing it when it was on i rember this very well

[@lorenzoharrison3615]

Oh my god I feel f****** old now

[@tenpasttwelve8931]

Living around that sort of area, you'll probably be able to work out better than me where it was, but the hardware store in 'Painting' was on Cradley Heath high street.

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

I did look in to that one, the simple reason I didn't include it is because it's no longer a shop, it's been converted to private housing.

[@snowyocuillin4679]

Thank you :) I really enjoyed your video. I grew up on the British Inland Waterways, living in canal boats from the early 70’s but we never ‘did’ Birmingham. Anyone know what happened to the Ragdoll? Anybody seen her? It’s unlikely her name will have changed as that’s one of the strongest sailor superstitions (I can’t remember the reasoning) to never change the name of a boat. She looks about 55 feet, lovely girl :)

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

The Ragdoll Boat still exists, it was found a few years ago in dry dock and has since been returned to the water. It appears to be in private ownership now. It has been modified and repainted so it's hard to spot. It's still green and red but all of the identifying Ragdoll signage has been removed sadly. There's a few videos on youtube and some pictures online of how it looks recently.

[@ascottishheart999]

I think you should do locations with Pat Huchins & Neil B too . Great video trip down Memory lane

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

Thanks for the kind words, the locations used later on are a bit too far away I'm afraid.

[@coringraham1294]

Brirningham was the location of the National Indoor Arena, Broadcasting Landmark of the UK Gladiators 1992 - 1999.

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

Indeed and The Old Turn Junction roundabout featured in this video is right next to it.

[@ReeceWilliams-vu8sn]

In the Series 2 episode ''Hats''' which canal near Birmingham does John lose his hat in? I would love to find that filming location. Also love the video, I hope you do a second one of Rosie and Jim filming locations. Because one of my favourite episodes from Series 1 which is ''Steam''' where John accidently runs the Ragdoll aground on some mud. A scene with a steam engine on the Seven Valley Railway is shown, but the river doesn't run alongside that part of the line only going under the bridge which the Ragdoll isn't seen doing so. Which means a bit of trick filming which is worth mentioning. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIq8qI2QeJ6hpbM Ps here's the link to the ''Steam''' episode.

[@JacksThrowbackAttack]

I don't know I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to tell. Thank you for watching the video, I'm afraid there are no plans for another because this one took a long time to do and I just wanted to concentrate on the ones that held a local connection to me.

[@gregory779]

Tots tv and teletubbies were filmed in the same location

[@joeaustin2919]

They don’t make shows like this anymore

[@arthuramazons2406]

John was changed to Neal

[@user-kc3fn1gu6g]

Rex's duck x