He is right. I now live in Switzerland but am from the UK "up north" and Robbie is so right about the humour we have from up north... its just not comparable to anywhere else. I just love it....here I think folk think I'm nuts cos they don't always "get" the humour.
The north ends at the bottom of my drive and the proper north ends at the bushes at the back of my garden. Anyone south of my front gate is a pansy and anyone north of my back garden is just strange and lives in the middle of nowhere. I love the north which is exactly where I live and nowhere else, all the other towns in the north are pigsties and their football teams are rubbish.
Can't beat the oatcakes I am also from stoke on trent but now live in florida my American wife makes fantastic oatcakes you would not know the difference spot on
Saying a little hello to me 2nd cousin Robbie, his mums sister was married to my dads brother, i grew up in London, but me dad was from stoke and we used to spend our school holidays at my grandparents in stoke, its nice to hear these stories, i took the musical path too, my dad was a piano playing preacher, so i guess we got the music in the family, uncle Don and Aunty jo and cousin jane were our favourite in laws, may have met Robbie when we were kids, it were a long time ago, love to have a chat with him one day, i thinka lot of our alternative thinking would align, anyway, many thanks for the clip, good luck.
Nice to see you haven’t forgotten your roots mate and are proud of where you came from 👍🏻…I think we we blessed in a way I wouldn’t change any of my stoke upbringing…mill hill was a fantastic school..utv
I remember his Dad wonderful talent funny man The theatre was called Jolly or jollies Longton Stoke all the stars played there he was the compare Good days
I grew up in Stoke ( still here !) Robs dad was the compare at Perran Sands holiday camp in Cornwall where most of us council estate pit and pot kids went on holiday in the Potters holiday ( dad was a miner and mum worked on the pots ) Can’t remember seeing Robbie but I’m sure he’d have been there . All the kids used to knock around together in the arcades . I’m a bit older than Rob . My sister did snog him once in a nightclub in Stoke . That’s her claim to fame and still to this day says he must of lost her number 😂( land line of course !) Stoke is a great place to live and Rob is right about the humour but also the friendliness is top notch ! 😊
I met take that once when we had a helicopter company in the north of the UK. It was just before they really exploded. They had loads of bags of soft toys girls had given to them at some concert thing they performed in.
I thought Stokies all went down to Rhyl back in the day and even had "The Sentinel" sent there! I loved Stoke, fished the Caldon Canal and loved Hanley Park (Duck!)
@@arcadia1081 we did go to Rhyl , you’re right ! We went in the other Potters holiday at the end of the big school summer holidays in August. The proper potters holiday was the end of June beginning of July . Some memories there too 😊 I guess we were lucky to have two holidays let alone one but mum and dad made good money down the pit and on the pots 😊 You from Stoke too then I take it ! Dad took me and my two sisters fishing all the time . Loads of places including the over flo and the canal . Great memories with dad
@@Annodsenrab No, I'm actually Welsh! My aunt lived in Upper Tean near Cheadle and we used to visit. I went to the Gladstone Pottery Museum as I saw it on Blue Peter! In 1978 there was the last ever bottle oven firing which I was fortunate to witness! I spent 3 years at North Staffordshire Polytechnic, loved the place and countryside. Went to the wonderful Peak District often!
@@arcadia1081 I don’t live far from Gladstone ! Yeah and we’re only 5 mins away from the countryside in all directions in Stoke . We did move out of Stoke for a few years when my husband was in the Staffordshire Regiment but returned home of course . Glad you enjoyed Stoke 😊
First time I’ve ever heard Robbie do a proper Stokie accent, he also explains in this interview how he was abit more middle class than his other mates which probably explains as well why he doesn’t have a proper Stokie accent now, learn summat new every day 😎👍
I’m a stokie…. Let’s see what he has to say 😬 Edit; respect mama Williams. It’s honestly dead nice to hear about stoke, a place most people In the world are unaware of
I don't know why but it warmed my heart a little to hear the Stokie accent in Robbie still :D I wonder how he feels now that Stoke has turned into an unrecognisable druggie landscape in the span of very few years?
The North is pretty much the same I grew up in Rotherham and it was no different nobody had two coins to rub together. But as a kid you make your own fun every days an adventure and life was good. Its not until you get older you start to see things through different eyes that was once not so apparent to you. Drugs, addiction, violence, sexual abuse. Poverty, etc etc. I loved my child hood but when i got to my late teens i hated the place so much i moved to Norfolk. That was 24 years ago and i have never looked back.
@@miloadhami6954 That's what I thought, but Robbie implies Stoke is in the North. Met quite a few people from the Midlands in my time and they either seem to think they're Northern or Southern.
Go to Manchester they think you're from Birmingham. Go to Birmingham they think you're from Manchester. Go to Nottingham they think you're from Liverpool. Go to Liverpool..... never found that one out.
Yes to me when I was a kid living in Hanley when a kid I would go to Blackpool for a stay with auntie for a few weeks during the school holidays but when I came back home on the train I realised just how dirty the potteries looked smelling of smoke and dust I was crying all the way back on the bus Thankfully my parents took us to live in Milton village because I was a weak child bronchitis I’m still living a old lady but the people were the kindest honest funniest people in the world
Hi all, all Stoke on Trent celebrates is the same thing over and over again pottery which was slavery and having a women fly in the war. War is celebrated over and over again here. We need a total clean out of those running things. New life not the old crap. It's awful here. The place is dying.
He is right. I now live in Switzerland but am from the UK "up north" and Robbie is so right about the humour we have from up north... its just not comparable to anywhere else. I just love it....here I think folk think I'm nuts cos they don't always "get" the humour.
Stoke's in the Midlands though....
@@Si_Mondo sure it is but I think it still has traits of true Northern humour.
The north ends at the bottom of my drive and the proper north ends at the bushes at the back of my garden.
Anyone south of my front gate is a pansy and anyone north of my back garden is just strange and lives in the middle of nowhere.
I love the north which is exactly where I live and nowhere else, all the other towns in the north are pigsties and their football teams are rubbish.
Mandy I'm in the Bavarian Alps and I call it the "Last Christmas" lifestyle!
@@mandysugden2819 A fair point. Those of the Midlands and the North do have similar senses of humour.
Love this. I lived in Stoke for a year or so. The loveliest, warmest people you could ever wish to meet.
I don’t know what stoke I’ve seen but it’s not that lol
I lived there most of my life
That’s lovely to read ❤
A wonderful tribute of a son to his parents.
May your children do this for you, too Mr.Williams.
Gotta love "real" people. The ones who know their roots and embrace them.
Wow I am from Stoke on Trent live in Canada now came here in 1974.miss my oatcakes ,
Oatcakes are very good back at home
Can't beat the oatcakes I am also from stoke on trent but now live in florida my American wife makes fantastic oatcakes you would not know the difference spot on
Saying a little hello to me 2nd cousin Robbie, his mums sister was married to my dads brother, i grew up in London, but me dad was from stoke and we used to spend our school holidays at my grandparents in stoke, its nice to hear these stories, i took the musical path too, my dad was a piano playing preacher, so i guess we got the music in the family, uncle Don and Aunty jo and cousin jane were our favourite in laws, may have met Robbie when we were kids, it were a long time ago, love to have a chat with him one day, i thinka lot of our alternative thinking would align, anyway, many thanks for the clip, good luck.
Nice to see you haven’t forgotten your roots mate and are proud of where you came from 👍🏻…I think we we blessed in a way I wouldn’t change any of my stoke upbringing…mill hill was a fantastic school..utv
I am from stoke and live in stoke, stoke and proud 🙌 love Rob ❤️
We are stoke
My mum loved Robbie when I was growing up, my mum passed away last year to a H over dose 😢
Sorry for your loss 😢❤
@@Annodsenrab 🙏❤️
🤗🤗🤗
So sorry for your loss
I grew up in Stoke, best place ever to grow up. Love Robbie ❤️
Now I want a bacon and cheese oatcake (the food of the gods).
Same here duck
Oh and add some sausages
I remember his Dad wonderful talent funny man The theatre was called Jolly or jollies Longton Stoke all the stars played there he was the compare Good days
Jollees used to be over Longton bus station seen some great entertainment and had some of my best nights out there in the 70s happy days.
As a scouser having worked in Stoke ...we are very similar in our crazy humour and we get on so well
I worked and lived in Stoke in late sixties, warm, nice people, very different now
Love how Robbie has always been proud of his roots ❤one of stokes best ever
Tough place stoke
Creates tough cookies
Hey up duck. Cheers for the kind words about this little place, us stokies call home
Stoke here. His mum
Was my boss at my last charity job Robbie paid my wages. Lovely women
I grew up in Stoke ( still here !) Robs dad was the compare at Perran Sands holiday camp in Cornwall where most of us council estate pit and pot kids went on holiday in the Potters holiday ( dad was a miner and mum worked on the pots ) Can’t remember seeing Robbie but I’m sure he’d have been there . All the kids used to knock around together in the arcades . I’m a bit older than Rob . My sister did snog him once in a nightclub in Stoke . That’s her claim to fame and still to this day says he must of lost her number 😂( land line of course !) Stoke is a great place to live and Rob is right about the humour but also the friendliness is top notch ! 😊
I met take that once when we had a helicopter company in the north of the UK. It was just before they really exploded. They had loads of bags of soft toys girls had given to them at some concert thing they performed in.
I thought Stokies all went down to Rhyl back in the day and even had "The Sentinel" sent there! I loved Stoke, fished the Caldon Canal and loved Hanley Park (Duck!)
@@arcadia1081 we did go to Rhyl , you’re right ! We went in the other Potters holiday at the end of the big school summer holidays in August. The proper potters holiday was the end of June beginning of July . Some memories there too 😊 I guess we were lucky to have two holidays let alone one but mum and dad made good money down the pit and on the pots 😊 You from Stoke too then I take it ! Dad took me and my two sisters fishing all the time . Loads of places including the over flo and the canal . Great memories with dad
@@Annodsenrab No, I'm actually Welsh! My aunt lived in Upper Tean near Cheadle and we used to visit. I went to the Gladstone Pottery Museum as I saw it on Blue Peter! In 1978 there was the last ever bottle oven firing which I was fortunate to witness! I spent 3 years at North Staffordshire Polytechnic, loved the place and countryside. Went to the wonderful Peak District often!
@@arcadia1081 I don’t live far from Gladstone ! Yeah and we’re only 5 mins away from the countryside in all directions in Stoke . We did move out of Stoke for a few years when my husband was in the Staffordshire Regiment but returned home of course . Glad you enjoyed Stoke 😊
The manufacturing might of stoke on Trent is sorely missed ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
First time I’ve ever heard Robbie do a proper Stokie accent, he also explains in this interview how he was abit more middle class than his other mates which probably explains as well why he doesn’t have a proper Stokie accent now, learn summat new every day 😎👍
Robbie Williams is a true entertainer true and true.
Absolutely
I think he has a place in Geneva now. Might nip over and ask if I can borrow a cup of sugar hahaha
You look so lovely rob😘💘💖😍💋❤️
I’m a stokie…. Let’s see what he has to say 😬
Edit; respect mama Williams. It’s honestly dead nice to hear about stoke, a place most people In the world are unaware of
I’m an old Stokie from Meir and watching this has made me like Robbie more it’s just a pity he supports Vale
Up the potters
I don't know why but it warmed my heart a little to hear the Stokie accent in Robbie still :D
I wonder how he feels now that Stoke has turned into an unrecognisable druggie landscape in the span of very few years?
Spot on Robbie I know that teacher you speak of I'm a clay head lass duck much love ❤ you speak as it is so precisely ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤xxx
The North is pretty much the same I grew up in Rotherham and it was no different nobody had two coins to rub together. But as a kid you make your own fun every days an adventure and life was good. Its not until you get older you start to see things through different eyes that was once not so apparent to you. Drugs, addiction, violence, sexual abuse. Poverty, etc etc. I loved my child hood but when i got to my late teens i hated the place so much i moved to Norfolk. That was 24 years ago and i have never looked back.
Is there not a full video that goes with rob? Xx
Krásné a pohodové 💗
Love yer music robbie I'm an ex stokie from longton a massive stoke fan shit on the vale
People say "Ay up" and "duck" a lot
I am over 70 and live in Canada now I call these people duck to,of course they think I am crazy.
Eh up is a Yorkshire saying too
Hiya duck how at
@@milels6917 oh aah
Ayup duck
"more salubrious" area of Stoke on Trent is? Where?
The Westlands
@@fredgroves2620 That's Newcastle
Meir
Hartshill?
@@fredgroves2620 🤣
Hi Robbie, my mum was sent to stoke on Trent during WW2 with my twin sisterd
Is Stoke in the North? The whole Midlands thing has always confused me.
Stoke is in the West Midlands
@@miloadhami6954 That's what I thought, but Robbie implies Stoke is in the North. Met quite a few people from the Midlands in my time and they either seem to think they're Northern or Southern.
@@AngSco30 depends which end you're standing
Go to Manchester they think you're from Birmingham. Go to Birmingham they think you're from Manchester. Go to Nottingham they think you're from Liverpool. Go to Liverpool..... never found that one out.
@@anthemoftheheart9497 So true 😂
I am from stoke on trent I live in hanley
Robbie's a real one ..but stoke is one of the trampist citys in the country 🤣
@_shaunattwood oh my god ..thank you ..I have only got 20k in savings thoe ..will that be enough ?
Stoke truly is a dump.
Yes to me when I was a kid living in Hanley when a kid I would go to Blackpool for a stay with auntie for a few weeks during the school holidays but when I came back home on the train I realised just how dirty the potteries looked smelling of smoke and dust I was crying all the way back on the bus Thankfully my parents took us to live in Milton village because I was a weak child bronchitis I’m still living a old lady but the people were the kindest honest funniest people in the world
Its a mixed pot
Mama was a G
Stoke in the House Aup me little Duck How does do
Hi mate are you aware of what Brian cockerill has been saying about you on his live?
Robbie the Bobbie.. 🤔
stoke isnt the north, its midlands
Ha, very true, but Londoners have conditioned us all to refer to anything north of London as the north 🙂
Growing up in the North lol it’s in the West mids you southern….🤣
Green bank rd
Hi all, all Stoke on Trent celebrates is the same thing over and over again pottery which was slavery and having a women fly in the war. War is celebrated over and over again here. We need a total clean out of those running things. New life not the old crap. It's awful here. The place is dying.
Stokes horrible
I've been in Stoke and I do agree when it comes to cobridge but trent Vale ain't that bad
By that I mean I live there
orate duck nowt wrong with the potteries
Robbie is stoke on Trent him and louis Walsh