CummingsYourWay
CummingsYourWay
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Ross-on-Wye
Making a long overdue trip to the birthplace of tourism, Dan Cummings considers the subjectivity of aesthetic beauty, before getting in a lather over various pronunciations and considering the use of the urban term 'Prospect'. He misremembers Walter Raleigh's inscription in the local church before rounding off the day with a visit to St Catherine's in Hoarwithy.
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Hay-on-Wye
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Dan and Lee take a literary trip to Hay on Wye to discuss all things literary and informational, from towns where knowledge resides to the internet, and AI's threat to do our learning for us.
Enville, Wolverley and Kinver: Cummings Your Way
Просмотров 2794 месяца назад
Straddling the border of Staffordshire and Worcestershire, and while in search of the last English troglodytes, Dan Cummings pauses to consider the extraordinary post mortem life of typeface guru John Baskerville and the career of Stourbridge heavy metal legends Witchfinder General.
Bury St Edmunds
Просмотров 5756 месяцев назад
The monastic ruins of Bury St Edmund's put Dan Cummings in mind of the last buildings of their kind. He visits the last regency theatre in the country , and wonders what will be the last 20s or 40s cinema, or the last 20th century building preserved for posterity. He also considers the grisly demise of William Cawdor, which resulted in a rubbish Year 8 scheme of work. Ever keen to make friends ...
Norwich: Cummings Your Way
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Dan Cummings heads to Norfolk and reminisces about the time he lived in an estate in Norwich. It was a Lada Riva Estate to be precise. Returning as almost a grown up, he peels back the layers of one of his favourite cities and considers if he, or it, have changed.
On Time, Buildings and The Crooked House (B&W Village Trail Pt 2)
Просмотров 1929 месяцев назад
The Herefordshire Black and White Village trail, part two. The demolished and rebuilt church of St John's, Shobden provides an ideal location for the CYW team to continue their discussion about the ethics of demolition, faking architectural styles and repurposing old buildings. The conversation naturally leads to an examination of a subject close to the hearts of people from the Black Country a...
Herefordshire Black and White Village Trail Part 1: Cummings Your Way
Просмотров 3759 месяцев назад
The charming environs of Herefordshire's black and white village trail contain myriad wonders, and prompts questions of tradition and modernity, authenticity and fakery in our built environment. Weaving their way through Weobly, Kinnersley, Eardisley, Pembridge and Eardisland; and finishing up at Shobden; there is no better place to ask the question: wherein does aesthetic truth lie? Part 2 fol...
Alcester: Cummings your Way
Просмотров 351Год назад
At Bilesley Church, mathematically challenged Dan Cummings struggles to work out the length of time between Shakespeare and Japan's 'Ghosts'. Brushing this off, he moves on to Alcester and its charming listed streetscapes, where the crew get sidetracked by a debate about medieval footwear.
Digbeth: Cummings Your Way
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Dan Cummings visits Digbeth, 'the coolest neighbourhood in Britain', with over-enthusiastic poet Dave Straughan in tow. They consider the respective natures of Birmingham and the Black Country, and tour the myriad urban streetscapes, recalling such local luminaries as JRR Tolkien, Black Sabbath and the Peaky Blinders as well as its rich pub heritage.
Dennis Potter's Forest of Dean: Cummings Your Way
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Dan Cummings sojourns into the Forest of Dean to meditate upon the works of Dennis Potter and how it made him worship at the high altar of television. He visits key locations from his life, and considers Potter's impact upon him, from Pennies from Heaven's 30s masterpiece, and up to his Melvyn Bragg interview: luminous, phosphorescent , and transparent with the power and light of impending deat...
Larkin in the West Midlands part 2: Coventry
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Part two of our film of Larkin's formative years in the West Midlands takes us to Coventry, the place of his birth. Dan Cummings considers it's influence on his work. From the makers of Cummings Your Way.
Larkin in the West Midlands part 1: Wellington and Lichfield
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Part one of our film to mark the centenary of Philip Larkin's birth takes us to Wellington and Lichfield. Dan Cummings explores the places that formed the making of Larkin as a poet. From the makers of Cummings Your Way.
Chepstow: Cummings Your Way
Просмотров 4372 года назад
Making a gentle, surreal rambling travelogue about the lovely Wye Valley town of Chepstow becomes overly complicated when Andi Peters keeps turning up in the back of your shots. Amidst a GDPR crisis, the CYW crew soldier on. Along the banks of the biggest tidal range in the country, they ponder the nature of town aesthetics and nostalgia, and Dan undergoes a strange personality change when cros...
Monmouth: Cummings Your Way
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Making another long overdue trip across the Welsh border, the bridge across the Monnow makes Dan Cummings feel a bit like Milan Kundera. Full of Wye Valley charm and welcoming old school boozers, it's a shame to discover that the beautiful local rivers are not fully accessible, and a lot less clean than we suppose. (Filmed before recent revelations about sewage dumping, and with apologies for s...
Lichfield: Cummings Your Way
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Cummings Your Way makes a long overdue visit to Lichfield, home of such luminaries as St Chad, Dr Samuel Johnson, and Erasmus Darwin of the Lunar Society. Sat in Darwin's herb garden, they ponder the West Midlands' place in the national consciousness. The magnificent cathedral looms large, as does Ewan McGregor channelling the captain of the Titanic.
Leominster: Cummings Your Way
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Leominster: Cummings Your Way
Tenbury Wells: Cummings Your Way
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Tenbury Wells: Cummings Your Way
Matlock and Matlock Bath: Cummings Your Way
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Matlock and Matlock Bath: Cummings Your Way
Jewellery Quarter via Birmingham and Fazeley Canal: Cummings Your Way
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Jewellery Quarter via Birmingham and Fazeley Canal: Cummings Your Way
Cummings Your Way channel trailer
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Cummings Your Way channel trailer
Welwyn Garden City: Cummings Your Way
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Welwyn Garden City: Cummings Your Way
St Albans: Cummings Your Way
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St Albans: Cummings Your Way
Walsall: Cummings Your Way Black Country File #9
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Walsall: Cummings Your Way Black Country File #9
Wychbury Hill (The Wych Elm and 70s Public Information Films): Cummings Your Way
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Wychbury Hill (The Wych Elm and 70s Public Information Films): Cummings Your Way
Cummings Your Way @ Wolverhampton Literature Festival Feb 2020
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Cummings Your Way @ Wolverhampton Literature Festival Feb 2020
Wells - Cummings Your Way
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Wells - Cummings Your Way
Bath: Cummings Your Way
Просмотров 3224 года назад
Bath: Cummings Your Way
Llangollen : Cummings Your Way
Просмотров 3844 года назад
Llangollen : Cummings Your Way
Llandudno - Cummings Your Way
Просмотров 5494 года назад
Llandudno - Cummings Your Way
Wren's Nest Nature Reserve, Dudley: Cummings Your Way Black Country File 8
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Wren's Nest Nature Reserve, Dudley: Cummings Your Way Black Country File 8

Комментарии

  • @AgentProvocateur70
    @AgentProvocateur70 Месяц назад

    I live only a few miles away from Walsall, but I never go there

  • @chrisshelley3027
    @chrisshelley3027 2 месяца назад

    Shouldn't there be a ? After why?

  • @suburbanbanshee
    @suburbanbanshee 2 месяца назад

    Nevsky Prospekt is named for Aleksander Nevsky. There was a monastery that was dedicated to him, and the street was designed to lead out to the monastery church.

  • @suburbanbanshee
    @suburbanbanshee 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for this video! It looks great and sounds great, and I wish you two were running Doctor Who these days!

    • @CummingsYourWay
      @CummingsYourWay 2 месяца назад

      Gosh, there's a thought. Much appreciated!

  • @suburbanbanshee
    @suburbanbanshee 2 месяца назад

    Well, obviously Richard Booth's isn't a bigger bookstore than John K. King's (the one in Detroit, not the one in Portland), but equally obviously, a warehouse in Detroit is less picturesque than a streetfront in Hay-on-Wye. Still, there is literally nothing like walking into a multi-floor warehouse full of books, many of them highly desirable to you personally, and knowing that there is literally no way to conquer that pile of potential reading. It makes one let go of certain pretensions, while showing you the depths of the literary sea.

  • @suburbanbanshee
    @suburbanbanshee 2 месяца назад

    A bit more discursive of a discussion in this episode... Very interesting and beautiful, however, as always!

  • @farrendry5117
    @farrendry5117 3 месяца назад

    Just watch your video about Kiimver. And commented that I used to work out that way and what a wonderful part of the country it was. Strangely after quitting that job I ended up working in digbeth for many years again another wonderful part of the country, however for so many different reasons.

  • @farrendry5117
    @farrendry5117 3 месяца назад

    Great video, some 20 odd years ago I use to work in and around the Seisdon peninsula, a wonderful part of the country. I always thought Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (the red baron) had the record for moving around after death but maybe not. Although come to think of it our lord Jesus Christ did quite a good job of it.

  • @davestraughan
    @davestraughan 3 месяца назад

    This better be good

  • @michaelbarker7648
    @michaelbarker7648 4 месяца назад

    1n 1983 I was accepted to the Stourbridge College of Art. I was going to a town that I knew nothing about. Apart from looking at Stourbridge on the map, the very first connection I made was reading up on Witcherfinder General in Sounds. Of course the article featured that infamous artwork which formed my first impressions of Stourbridge.

  • @positivepower4947
    @positivepower4947 5 месяцев назад

    So much history in this area. History lost mostly to myth. Myth or cover ups?. The land is full of wealth for the people to benefit.

  • @Swaggerlot
    @Swaggerlot 6 месяцев назад

    The biggest risk to Bury St Edmunds is the envious shite in places like Ipswich. BSE is my favourite town.

  • @chris4383
    @chris4383 7 месяцев назад

    I used to live in Bury St Edmunds as a child way back in 1979 to 1983. Have often returned in later years to see the town, a lovely little English town, nice walk in the Abbey Gardens, is the Bird Aviary still there I wonder? Great video Dan, brought back many memories, thank you Sir. You have yourself a new Subscriber.

    • @CummingsYourWay
      @CummingsYourWay 6 месяцев назад

      Not sure about the Aviary - where was it? Thanks for the message!

  • @michaelbarker7648
    @michaelbarker7648 7 месяцев назад

    Cummings your way. The biggest find since Sutton Hoo! Have you seen TheTube live rendition of ‘Heaven is Waiting’? Goes horribly wrong. Apart from that, a tune I play quite often.

  • @lisazazzarino
    @lisazazzarino 7 месяцев назад

    😎👍🏼❤️

  • @davestraughan
    @davestraughan 7 месяцев назад

    Superb. I genuinely haven't decided whether i prefer watching you visit places I'm familiar with, or places i don't know at all, like Bury St Edmunds

    • @CummingsYourWay
      @CummingsYourWay 6 месяцев назад

      Cheers old boy. We'll be in touch soon-ish

  • @ddanny3108
    @ddanny3108 7 месяцев назад

    I’d watch him all day. Seems like a fellow teacher. I do wish the sound was more consistent on the last one.

  • @user-xw2ko9lu9s
    @user-xw2ko9lu9s 8 месяцев назад

    My apologies ... you're better ...

  • @user-xw2ko9lu9s
    @user-xw2ko9lu9s 8 месяцев назад

    Is that you Mr Meades

  • @user-tn7on3ko6t
    @user-tn7on3ko6t 9 месяцев назад

    all these places I just drive through!

  • @evanleebodies
    @evanleebodies 9 месяцев назад

    Mr Cummings you are the spit of my mate Terry Brazier of Clothier Street

  • @davidhallard7427
    @davidhallard7427 10 месяцев назад

    The Crooked House? What about Beatties?

  • @NedLudd717
    @NedLudd717 10 месяцев назад

    We're back baby

  • @ShotgunDuck901
    @ShotgunDuck901 10 месяцев назад

    i love your channel im a subscriber

  • @Microwaveoven4
    @Microwaveoven4 10 месяцев назад

    What tie number is that

  • @ddanny3108
    @ddanny3108 10 месяцев назад

    Superb. Back at last

  • @Microwaveoven4
    @Microwaveoven4 10 месяцев назад

    Get in danny back in blue

  • @ljforrealz
    @ljforrealz 10 месяцев назад

    YESSSSS. 🎉🎉🎉

  • @ppppickup
    @ppppickup Год назад

    must of been some view up there 100 years agu mr cummings

  • @davestraughan
    @davestraughan Год назад

    You should do one on Erdington. Cultural capital of north east Birmingham, after Shard End ...of course.

  • @samsum3738
    @samsum3738 Год назад

    I enjoyed it . Should have been longer .

  • @philipevans698
    @philipevans698 Год назад

    Only thing I would say is The Fiery Holes is not really Tipton ? but a good video otherwise .

  • @tomkent4656
    @tomkent4656 Год назад

    I forget who once described Brighton as "a town helping police with their inquiries."

  • @popwillodrum1
    @popwillodrum1 Год назад

    Nice one aer kid it's a great video. Unny just come across it. Born an lived just daern the road, never went up theer tho, funny ay it that! But looked at it every day frum me nans house in Stowheath a great big tank like thing on legs. Woke up one day n theer it was Gone! What was it aer kid? I never did find out.

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 Год назад

    Just watched your Patrick Hamilton vid. From 9 years ago !! Loved it . Glad to know figure still out there despite pathetic disappointing viewing figures . BUT..such are the Times we live in..Ave atque Vale .!

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 Год назад

      PS. " Figure still out there " Should be " you're still out there " ! Not that it makes much difference .!!

  • @2msvalkyrie529
    @2msvalkyrie529 Год назад

    Hmm. Weird but fascinating. Like Patrick Hamilton. ?

  • @ppppickup
    @ppppickup Год назад

    is walsall really in the black country cummings🤔

  • @clairalouisa
    @clairalouisa Год назад

    😂😂😂 the lock museum it’s locked

  • @listencarefully1000
    @listencarefully1000 Год назад

    Grew up at the foot of sedgely beacon at Lanesfield and climbed it many times as a boy. Remember the semi-circular steel plate at the top where you could stand and look out. Living in Australia for over fifty years now.

    • @CummingsYourWay
      @CummingsYourWay Год назад

      After 50 years, the Black country must seem like a distant dream from where you are

  • @iDeaGLeZHD
    @iDeaGLeZHD Год назад

    Mr Cummings and Mr Harris, it's fantastic to see you both making Cummings Your Way all these years on. I remember when we were made aware of your videos in Mr Harris' Film Studies class. I'm still keen on the film industry now and I put a lot of that down to Mr Harris' teaching. Thank you for all you do!

    • @CummingsYourWay
      @CummingsYourWay Год назад

      Hello Mark! Yep we're still plugging away. Thanks for the kind words. Hope you're well?

  • @MassivePing
    @MassivePing Год назад

    There is an image at 4:09, (Corn Exchange Beer Here). I can't place this in Beverley at all, and I grew up there. Fairly certain that is an image from Hull instead

    • @pedmondson002
      @pedmondson002 Год назад

      It is, next to Hull Minster (Trinity).

  • @Maturelifeandbeyond
    @Maturelifeandbeyond Год назад

    Thank you for your video about Welwyn. Im a nobody in the third world countries, studying Ebenezer Howard's garden city. Hope someday I could visit Welwyn, Hampstead and Letchworth.

  • @johnhaggerty4396
    @johnhaggerty4396 Год назад

    Thanks for this. I remember seeing Dennis Potter's *Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton* on BBC TV then reading his book *The Glittering Coffin*. I was still at school and I bought a Penguin paperback edition of *Border Country* by Raymond Williams which carried a glowing Potter review.

  • @thedinodude1711
    @thedinodude1711 Год назад

    The goat himself has returned

  • @johnhaggerty4396
    @johnhaggerty4396 Год назад

    Cummings Your Way. Never heard of you until this November night. Not since Ian Nairn have I been so moved and entertained by a reporter in love with England's townscape, and I am a Scot. Nairn wrote for The Sunday Times in the 1960s and then made great BBC TV documentaries (RUclips). You have his eye for detail and his wry humour.

    • @CummingsYourWay
      @CummingsYourWay Год назад

      Thanks for these kind words John. Nairn is indeed an inspiration.

  • @johnhaggerty4396
    @johnhaggerty4396 Год назад

    Glad to have found this nine years on. I have always been fascinated by the Black Country and I am a Glasgow man. The West of Scotland had its own Black Country some of the most heavily industrialised landscape in the world, but yours had the name & legend. I think my fascination began with Caroline Hillier's *Journey to the Heart of England* and there is a recent book of brilliant poems, *Black Country*.

    • @CummingsYourWay
      @CummingsYourWay Год назад

      Good reference points those. There are definitely parallels between Glasgow and Birmingham / The Black Country. Hopefully we'll get up there some day.

    • @johnhaggerty4396
      @johnhaggerty4396 Год назад

      By the way you have a great shot at the very end. I wondered about the name of the street: wonderful outlook.

    • @CummingsYourWay
      @CummingsYourWay Год назад

      @@johnhaggerty4396 It's Gospel End

    • @johnhaggerty4396
      @johnhaggerty4396 Год назад

      @@CummingsYourWay Thanks, Mr Cummings. I shall take a stroll down there one day. It is the kind of hill-view street I imagined Stanley Middleton living in even though he was a lifelong resident of Nottingham. Middleton & Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, Shelagh Delaney and David Storey: all favourite writers. Just finished Storey's posthumous memoir.

  • @gertrudetrudy
    @gertrudetrudy Год назад

    Best thing I've ever seen

  • @kevinsommerville6693
    @kevinsommerville6693 Год назад

    Need to revisit all of Potter. He was so influential to the younger me. Thank you Dan, I'm very glad to know that you were there and that you're somewhere else now. Thank you.

  • @korctheartist1817
    @korctheartist1817 Год назад

    Absolutely brilliant, lots of love from Walsall I was there last Monday when they had the bomb scare, If I heard Daves poem the bus ride home wouldn't be as bad 😂

  • @davestraughan
    @davestraughan Год назад

    This is by far the funniest and, therefore best , CYW ever.