Documentary / Martin Parr - Teddy Gray's Sweet Factory / Multistory
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Magnum photographer, Martin Parr, returns to using a film camera in this wonderfully engaging documentary about Teddy Gray's sweet factory in Dudley in the Black Country, West Midlands.
Established in 1826, Teddy Gray's has always been a family owned and run business. Five generations have worked and contributed towards the business of keeping the traditional, hand-made methods of sweet making alive.
The film is part of the Black Country Stories body of work commissioned by Multistory to document life in the Black Country by capturing and celebrating the unique mix of communities living in the area and of existing traditional Black Country life.
Multistory is supported by Sandwell Council and Arts Council England.
For more on the project: multistory.org...
You can't beat old-fashioned sweets. Sweets to all the sweeties at Teddy Gray's.
Lovely to see an old fashioned business still surviving in the 21st century. I love their sweets!
Just bought a large container of your small pear drops. Delicious. Had them shipped to my mother, who will send them to me in Georgia, USA.
Absolutely brilliant! I have always loved 'erballs since I was a kid and it would be terrible if this company ever changed. Keep it how it is...wonderful film and people!
***** ...uck off yow!
I remember going on a school visit when I was 14. 1961. The smell was wonderful.
Well done Martin, and thanks to all who featured, so much to enjoy.
Stephen fry brought me here.... And I'm so glad he did!
What an AMAZING place. I dare Google them to see if they're still in business as it would break my heart if they got swept away by more modern businesses.
Now, off to buy a stick of rock.
Alan Pender it still going strong pal
Still going strong mate the factory and the shop
Just brought some sweets from the shop today!
Growing up around whiteheath/lion farm estate we used to go up oakham and walk to Dudley and Coseley baths in the summer holidays. I remember the smell of Teddy Grays mixed with the old Brewery up by top church. Magical.
Julie Gray (Ted's daughter) was sitting at my old desk lol it was my 1st eva poppa job when i left school £75 a week 1990 i worked with Edward Jnr (Ed) he used to crack me up cuz he cud neva find me lol It's great to see sum of the original folk still there Bonnie..Jill..Joanne..John..Ray..Dave..Christine..Sue..Mark..think i saw Maureen T..xx still all wearing of them finger prints on the griddles lol they put my name in the rock once :) Xmas was great . Ted supplied all the alcohol & the men used to nick it all ;( so i used to pop ova the road to the dentist to Diane and get pie eyed ova there xx GUD TIMES ;) Long Live Ted & Betty Gray :)
Such a lovely film about a wonderful company
Loved this short film. It looks like a company full of good values in many ways. I didn't think places like this were around anymore. Fantastic!
such a sweet little film .long may they carry on doing what they do and never change a thing
Happiest place in my life into Teddy Grays 1961 after being at the cubs.
I just bought some Gray’s Herbal Tablets and by coincidence up popped this documentary. I’m just hoping that the company is still being run along similar lines. It would be wonderful to think that this wonderful business continues to flourish. My favourites have always been toffee bonbons. Love their shop and goodies. Hope they go on forever.
Black country folk are the best.
Magnificent! What a wonderful documentary and so Martin Parr.
This is really awe-inspiring! Love the calendars in the background - Mr. Gray with the woman in the bikini and the woman with the bare-chested man. :) Nice to see a film about something so positive and downright like-able instead of the typical documentary films focusing on war, poverty, drug addiction, etc...
This was fascinating!
Superb, long may they reign.
absolutely hypnotizing
Brilliant! I really miss these sweets (I'm diabetic now) but I remember loving just about everything they sold. The herbal tablets were amazing, and thankfully I *can* still have an ice cream every so often. I just wish they made sugar-free sweets -- plenty of other traditional places do them now, so come on Teddy Grays! You'd get my money for sure!
They had a sign saying they now have sugar free sweets available when I popped to their shop in Dudley yesterday.
@@DJenerate Yeah, I was in Bewdley recently and they do too. Trouble is they're extremely expensive, getting on for two quid for 100g. Warmans in Worcester does sugar free sweets for much less, so I go there now.
Best sweets ever - Ice cream to die for!
Faith restored,simply wonderful
Marvelous.
I feel refreshed after watching this and i don´t even like sweets.
Just another classic from Martin Parr.
Just ordered some Grey's herbal sweets.
Fabulous story, so well told.
An absolute delight to view.
Thank you
Love their herbal sweets 😍😍😍
Love em and I will love teddy grays sweets till the day I die I now live in Doncaster but I get my brother to post me some every fortnight as he shops in Dudley and always calls in the castle for a pint and teddy’s for our sweets 🍬 quality our kid 👍👍
This was a fantastic watch. What an amazing story, and indeed factory!
Amazing!
This is old fashioned quality love for their business that brings pure love and joy without the dumbing down and anxiety provoking that some modern technologies have created in people's lives!
A lovely film
This is great, Can't believe everything is so mechanical and anti-digital
When will teddy Grays Dudley be opened up again it was sad to see closed all through this stupid virus
Wow proper old school sweets great to watch :)
I really enjoyed it and the sweets.
I hope they are online. I would very much like to order some sweets, and break a tooth, from this wonderful company. Just look at them. Beautiful. Old. Amazing
I used to live by the van driver they interviewed. He used the van to go home in. Whenever you walked passed it it always smelled of herbal tablets from 10ft away!
Lovely little film.
I love how the jug of red colouring has never been washed.
fantastic and the little things 😀
I can buy pear drops when I attend Leighton hospital, but rarely. I’d buy more if I could. Wish I could buy from supermarkets
lol at the calendar.
wow...
Where?
The smell of herbals fills kates hill when they make them
@@oberonstringweed3344 who needs a covid vaccine get some teddy grays herbals down ya 😂👌
@@oberonstringweed3344 definitely 👌
i dig this
That was the place for sweets and ice creams. Loved that store like so many others. I must say that I was surprised to see that some of the people did not wear disposable gloves when handling the rock etc.
soo sweet
Excuse the pun, but that was sweet!
reminds me of a sweet factory in BLACKHEATH (B'HAM) MR.& MRS Harris used to own it.. rock and sweets is in here, sad when it closed
Amazing video. It's a shame they'll probably have to modernize at some point. It's nice to know some companies haven't changed in decades.
1826 the famous date and creation of teddy grays factory
I love this factory and there sweets and there shop so tasty and ye it’s good old Victorian sweets
Don't know anyone who doesn't like them,I'm eating a pack of herbals right now,you got to keep buying these ,don't let another uk company close down,they need our support,maybe our kids will be able to enjoy them when their older too.
WITHAAHT A DAAHT THE BEST SUCK IN THE COUNTRY
Best sweets ever
I've gotta go out and buy some suck now!!
Does anybody remember Orchard sweets from Blackheath?
It's a shame Orchard Confectionery aren't still about.
Wow she’s a human calculator 😮 the way she can handle all the numbers just in her head! That’s incredible, a true asset to any company, can’t believe how long ago this was filmed tho, I hope it’s still the same old same old, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
My mom worked for em for 30 odd years
RIP teddy and berty
Herbal tablets my favorites sweets.
want to work here want to try all the goodies which is a shame they are not on the net or i would go order right away lol
Herbal tablets are good and the pips sweets are grate on flavour
2:18 where can i get a calendar?
"so you're redundant!" looool very friendly interviewer!!
Great business. Great footage and amazing subjects. But Bad questions by an apathic interviewer.
Having said that, I'm off to buy maself some Teddy Grey sweets!
And yow cor get na sweet like Teddy grays does them
Stephen Fry brought me here
This is the most famous company in the Black Country but not only that it developed its own famous black county suck and this business is a family owned business not owed by council at all also its sweets date back to Victorian years
Bostin
I notice that ones were use in there hands with out gloves not good
Lets all have dental cavities!
The rock don’t taste very nice sorry guys just didn’t enjoy them
Absolutely delightful!