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An alternate channel for old footage and interviews from Staffordshire.
Subscribe to hear authentic voices sharing stories from our history.
Some of this content will be public domain, others will be of uncertain copyright status, still more may be in copyright but with permission from the rights holder.
If you have old video or audio you would like to add to this archive please contact me at the email below.
Subscribe to hear authentic voices sharing stories from our history.
Some of this content will be public domain, others will be of uncertain copyright status, still more may be in copyright but with permission from the rights holder.
If you have old video or audio you would like to add to this archive please contact me at the email below.
Britain's Counties - Staffordshire (Narrated by Lord Lichfield) | Staffordshire Memories
Known internationally for its fine china and pottery, the film shows the contrasts of the county, from the expanses of the Peak District to the white knuckle rides at Alton Towers: 700 feet down a coal mine to ballooning over Cannock Chase.
Produced by the British Tourist Authority in 1988.
This documentary is still under copyright, I have uploaded it here because I believe it is of educational value and is no longer of financial interest to anyone. If you are the copyright holder and have any objection to this, please contact me via the email on my channel page for swift removal.
Produced by the British Tourist Authority in 1988.
This documentary is still under copyright, I have uploaded it here because I believe it is of educational value and is no longer of financial interest to anyone. If you are the copyright holder and have any objection to this, please contact me via the email on my channel page for swift removal.
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Curiosities of Old Staffordshire | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 7 тыс.Год назад
This is a documentary about the Folklore and Heritage of the county of Staffordshire, which was produced in 1999 on VHS. It explores a great many locations and provides background on the stories that have taken place there to provide a 50 minute crash course in Staffordshire Curiosities. The curiously contradictory county of Staffordshire is not a unique example, but is certainly the best, of t...
Jon Raven - Songs of the Black Country | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 5 тыс.Год назад
Jon Raven was one of the Black Country's best-known Folk Singers, he was also a keen folklorist and historian. This documentary presents a History of the Black Country as told through an evolution of its folk music, much of which was researched and collected by Jon and his brother Michael in the early 60's for their initial publications. Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:43 - John Wilkinson 05:...
Reg Fullelove - A Walk Down Memory Lane with Aer Reg | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 91Год назад
Reg Fullelove, often affectionately referred to as 'Aer Reg' by locals of the Heath Hayes & Brownhills area is true community elder in every sense of the word. He is known as a local historian as well as a poet, he has raised considerable money for charity over the years. Reg is now 92 years old as of June 2022. He has been doing talks and TV appearances for over 45 years and in 1984 recieved a...
Linda Cooper Interview - The White Hart, Caldmore | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 390Год назад
This is an Interview with Linda Cooper, long-time resident of the White Hart on Caldmore Green, Walsall. The topic of the interview covers many aspects of the folklore of the White Hart, including: 'The Grey Lady', 'The Hand of Glory', The Cromwellian Sword & The Secret Tunnel supposedly found in the basement. The White Hart was converted into flats in the 1990's after the pub previously caught...
Tom Langley - 'So They Say' | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 1802 года назад
Tom Langley was born in Chasetown, Staffordshire, though his family originally came from the Black Country, they moved to the Cannock Chase coalfield looking for work. His mother worked at the Burntwood asylum. Towards the end of his life he worked as a Security Officer after a career of twenty-five years spent with the Birmingham City Police Force. Though Tom was also a member of the Black Cou...
Wesley Perrins - A Black Country | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 11 тыс.2 года назад
Wesley Perrins was a Labour Politician for Birmingham Yardley and a Local Historian of the Black Country in the 20th Century. This is a recording produced by the BBC for a series entitled 'Grass Roots', this was the 4th episode entitled 'A Black Country'. Here Mr. Perrins visits places fond to him as a child while discussing the history and character of the Black Country. Produced by: BBC Midla...
Wesley Perrins - Black Country History & Humour | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 3,9 тыс.2 года назад
Wesley Perrins was a Labour Politician for Birmingham Yardley and a Local Historian of the Black Country in the 20th Century. This is a recording of a Radio broadcast he made on the topic of Black Country Humour. Biography: Wesley Perrins was born the 21st September 1905 at Balds Lane, Wollescote in Stourbridge to a working class family. His grandfather had been a nailer and was known locally a...
The Oak House May Day Celebrations 2022 | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 2432 года назад
The Oak House in West Bromwich is now a museum dedicated to the property, the history of the families who inhabited it, and the stories of the people who lived nearby in the previous centuries. The staff of the museum arrange a yearly celebration on May Day, this being the first one to take place since the Lockdowns of 2020/2021. I put this little video together just to document some of the fan...
An interview with Ms. Rhoda Dawtry | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 4112 года назад
Ms. Rhoda Dawtry was born as Alice Rhoda Marsh on April 13th 1883 in Churchfields, West Bromwich to Mother Elizabeth Anne Batchelor and Father John W. Marsh. She had at least 5 brothers and sisters. At various points in her life her family owned the Jolly Nailor Pub on Lyndon road (Now houses), as well as The Red Lion, which was demolished and rebuilt around 1939, the new building still stands ...
An Interview with WWII Prisoners of War from Stoke-on-Trent | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 4562 года назад
This is an interview of a group of gentlemen from Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire who served in World War 2 and were taken as prisoners of war, serving time in various German and Italian prison camps. They provide insight into their daily life through reminiscences as well as providing examples of the songs they learned or composed during that time period. The recordings were made in about 1971...
A 60's Staffordshire Childhood | Staffordshire Memories
Просмотров 2072 года назад
This family footage is from around the late 1960's/ early 1970's and follows a Staffordshire family on several days out and occasions. Several locations in the video are unidentified, but some were identified by the owner: - The First house is in West Bromwich - The Second house is near Cannock Chase - The Church where the wedding takes place was somewhere in Wombourne. The footage was original...
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This was a lovely video. It's Mow, as in Cow. Narrator sounds slightly like Rodney Bewes! No Molly Leigh tho.
Thank God we a brummie, black Country folk, the finest people in the world
Im a Perrins .]
Quite comprehensive tour--seriously, I feel as though I'd had the grand tour. Thank you for this!
Fantastic find !!
Thanks! I have one more I want to upload when I find time, but I'm always on the look out for more content so if you know of anything please let me know and I'll try to acquire it.
Great info here really enjoyed that. Just for the record from a person born looking up at Mow cop castle (26:17) Mow is pronounced "Mao" as in Mao Tse Tung.
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
lovely to see the places where i grew up, i used to live in great haywood until i married and emigrated to New Zealand i used to walk over the essex bridge to the "main road" to catch the midland red bus to Rugeley
Love my gornal
Excellent! Love the history and accent of the black country, thank you
I suspect many people will not be aware of just how large and how diverse a county Staffordshire was, before the 1974 Boundary Changes, that created the former West Midlands County.
Really enjoyed this video. Very interesting. Thankyou 👍
Love it - my dad's family lived in Hurst Hill (some of the earliest Council Housing), and yes my grandad used to keep pigeons. Many in the family were nailers - They all supported each other through 'thick and thin'. Happy days visiting them in the 1970s. Many a student or government representative ....would benefit from gaining a better understanding of black country grit, humour, and community cohesion 😊
Interesting content of life and work very enjoyable
Thank you for sharing this.
You're very welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
What a fantastic video great job I’m proud to have come from the Black Country RG
Yo’m yampy, yow lot am.
And in the 21st century all this will vanish forever.
You & and The Jolly Reiver are 2 of my favour channels. Keep it up, boys 😊😊
Now going be mosque
Like the first commentator i too enjoyed the history and traditions of Staffordshire and hopefully will see many other cities of Britain
He’s got a bit of Kiddy (Kidderminster) in there..!
Love this. I dred to think what he'd make of the lye today, terribly sad what a filthy ghetto its turned into.
Very good
I remember Wesley Perrins well. He used to visit St. Marks Primary School , Stambermill ,Lye in the 1960's He would teach us about the Black Country.
Hope you don't mind but this was one of the poems Jon taught which he was keen on. It was early last September nigh to Framlin’am-on-Sea, An’ ’twas Fair-day come to-morrow, an’ the time was after tea, An’ I met a painted caravan adown a dusty lane, A Pharaoh with his waggons comin’ jolt an’ creak an’ strain; A cheery cove an’ sunburnt, bold o’ eye and wrinkled up, An’ beside him on the splashboard sat a brindled tarrier pup, An’ a lurcher wise as Solomon an’ lean as fiddle-strings Was joggin’ in the dust along ‘is roundabouts and swings. ‘Goo’-day,’ said ‘e; ‘Goo’-day,’ said I; ‘an’ ‘ow d’you find things go, An’ what’s the chance o’ millions when you runs a travellin’ show?’ ‘I find,’ said ‘e, ‘things very much as ‘ow I’ve always found, For mostly they goes up and down or else goes round and round.’ Said ‘e, ‘The job’s the very spit o’ what it always were, It’s bread and bacon mostly when the dog don’t catch a ‘are; But lookin’ at it broad, an’ while it ain’t no merchant king’s, What’s lost upon the roundabouts we pulls up on the swings!’ ‘Goo’ luck,’ said ‘e; ‘Goo’ luck,’ said I; ‘you’ve put it past a doubt; An’ keep that lurcher on the road, the gamekeepers is out;’ ‘E thumped upon the footboard an’ ‘e lumbered on again To meet a gold-dust sunset down the owl-light in the lane; An’ the moon she climbed the ‘azels, while a night-jar seemed to spin That Pharaoh’s wisdom o’er again, ‘is sooth of lose-and-win; For ‘up an’ down an’ round,’ said ‘e, ‘goes all appointed things, An’ losses on the roundabouts means profits on the swings!’
My old teacher back in 60's a very decent one at that Mr Raven.
Do you mind me asking what school that was? I'm trying to compile as much biographical information about his as I can. If you had any thoughts or anecdotes about him I'd definitely be interested in hearing them!
@@StaffordshireHiraeth Etheridge County Secondary Bilston. The school was knocked down when the Black Country route was built. Jon taught us poetry and music I still remember some of them. He was a decent guy outside the classroom and always liked to talk about the local area but inside a disciplinarian some may not have got on to well with him but the majority did. My parents kept the Pipe Hall hotel in Bilston and he came to our folk club there once, greeted me with hello young Jonesy what are you doing here, told him I lived there. As I said a decent guy. I left school 1964 the year Jon started there.
@@oldhippiejon Thank you very much that's so interesting to hear. I wonder if he was teaching you some of the folk songs he was researching at the time.
A very interesting piece of work. Really enjoyed it. There must be loads more stories and traditions hiding in the vaults.
love this from quarry bonk
Just came across this fantastic piece and I remember Wesley Perrins well , he some times gave talks at our school and god could he talk 😄 he didn't talk the same Black Country as us but more of a posh Black Country because he was "educated" , but fun to listen to ,,, great memories , thanks
Perfect illustration of white privilege.
The black country, lovely, clever people, hard working and made the very best to be exported the world over. Renowned for sharp edge tools among many, many other things. Lovely video thanks for showing to us.😀
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
Got am old ghost story passed down you want to here it
An interesting piece, says one Perrins to another! (There aren't many of us left).
Wesley Perrins was a lovely man and a good friend of my father. He lived in Lye and I recall chatting to him around 1980, not long before he died. I think he would be surprised at Lye in 2022. Also, I suspect that he was reading from a document he'd written out which was added to this film at the time. Just a guess however.
That accent is crazy. Stourbridge? Is that extinct or just idiosyncratic to him? It’s kinda Brum but with some West Country rhoticity and other alien pronunciations.
He mentions somewhere, perhaps another interview how he was sent to public speaking lessons which helped him to become an MP. Personally I think his accent is the result of both his Black Country roots as well elocution lessons to make him more easily understandable.
I was born in Birmigham Loveday Street Hospital and raised in Tipton in a working class family. His accent doesn't sound Black Country to me.
Being bought up around the area it’s almost certainly between Dudley Cradley Lye Gornal accent but hard to pinpoint exactly
I have just googled him 😂he’s from Lye / Wollescote area in between Dudley and Stourbridge he was a trade unionist and Labour mp so probably adjusted his accent to be understandable 😩
It definitely does
Nice "Hidden" gem.
Good stuff