It's so weird looking at how lively it was back then! I've lived in Stourbridge since I was born and it's nothing like that now...So many shops out of business/derelict
Stourbridge boy born and bred here. I was born in 1993 so this was a bit before my time. I've seen old videos and photos of how lovely the town centre looked. I hate the one way traffic of the high street where it gets congested and the ring road is a pain to get on and off during busy times. Now in the 2020s it's so dull and unlively, there is no place worth going to and there is barely anything to do. I think when the ring road was built it made everywhere else around the high street more chaotic.
Grew up in Brierley Hill but my Auntie and Uncle lived in Oldswinford, so used to go to Stourbridge with them on Saturdays. Great memories here, its such a pity it's not like it now! Something went very, very wrong in the space of 30-odd years!
this is amazing. i am out in cairo on business and was having a nostalgic moment about me 'ome town of stour. I went to king edwards with the blonde girl looking surprised earlier on and also saw hellfire club at the town hall. That was from 1983 to 1985 so the guesses on the years seem abouy right. thanks v much for the memories, means a lot, cheers
I watched this through a few times, looking for anyone I knew when I went to Stourbridge College, aka Foley College, between '81 and '83. I didn't recognize any of the younger people who might have been students, so maybe this was later in the 80s. Some of them appeared uncomfortable when they noticed the camera pointing at them!
@brcreature They knocked down Bell Street Leisure centre in the late 80's if I remember rightly and replaced it with the Crystal. The old leisure centre used to have an outdoor pool.
I went to Foley college.... stourbridge was a great place to shop, You could get everything you needed , And the indoor market was brilliant ....Merry hill spoilt it and of course big supermarkets.... we had some BIG stores in stourbridge ...
my nan worked at stourbridge woolworths in 1974 through till 1977 then went to tower housewears where she worked till 1990 then worked at the red cow in shropshire from 1990 - 2019 shes now retiring this year
Been looking at a few videos with 80's footage: Birmingham, London, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Cradley Heath, Manchester. What surprises me is the lack of obese folk back then.
I remember them doing the video. some lads from Stourbridge collage. nice lads . can't remember there names . most the young people would drink in the Exchange in the high street (had D.J. on over the weekends would get rammed). and the turf pub. over the road remember the faces not the names.
@tonimusher 1985 for me, sadly i don't have much memory of stourbridge back then, makes you think where the past 20+ has gone. i'd go back too the 80's tommorow and do it all again.
There's people right at the end of the vid from my year at Stourbridge art college 3:55 girl in the purple quilted jacket short blonde hair was Stephanie Marsh ( from Sedgley I think) and Helen in the long dark jacket ..(forgot her name) it looka like when we started in 83. The punk used to hang around the college cant remember his name.
this is social history of britain, got longer footage?, tranfer to dvd and sell it on ebay, its great to get a look at the shops in the 80`s, wish someone had footage of Norwich in the 1970`s & 80`s, as i would buy it.
I lived in Kinver and went to King Edwards college 1983 to 1985. I remember the punk- and going to Boots to buy my goth eyeliner.I spotted my friend Sarah Hill with the bob hair 29 seconds in. Seems another lifetime ago- simpler ,happier times.
a reminder how it used to be. I worked in Stourbridge in 1987, Foster Street - remember all what what shown with the Ryemarket I think it was called and never forgetting the Moorings pub down at the bottom of the ring road. Good stuff!! :)
Wow, this is amazing stuff. Amazing as I was born in 1987. Alot of the shops are different now, but I still know exactly where the cameraman is filming from. And even Boots, it looks different even though its still a boots in 2009.
Yep, you should definitely be a copper talking like that! Thanks for getting in touch, glad you like the video clip. I remember the band but never saw them
I worked in Stourbridge in th 80s so it all looked familiar to me. Alas I saw neither myself nor anyone else I recognised. It all looks so dated on video - the clothes, the hair-styles, the cars - yet in my memories it seems just a short while ago ^_^ Interesting how everyone was noticing the camera. Today they wouldn't care since they are everywhere...
SAHBfan-Ummmm your comment makes no sense- There were some people in that video like girls that had short hair or pony tails or just very long hair + some had a perm -The men some had puffy hair or mullet but some has shaved head or very short hair...And the clothes-Some had coloured shirt or logo t-shirt, Jeans + trainers on and others had those patterned brown jumpers on-Same with women with jeans and a top and leather jacket or coat which people have now so shouldn't look all dated -But only saw a few with shoulder pads so confused by your comment + the cars some of them were from the 70's that were still driving around tin the 80's, Where as some of them were 80's-Some of 80's cars do look dated now but some of them don't again a mixed bag And back then Video Camera's were obvious when someone was filming, Where as today sometimes you wouldn't know as would look like they were txting......
That Mik the punk he is still going check out You know you grew up in Stourbridge its a facebook page and you will see Mik on there as he is now. Brilliant page.
Haha i was just wondering, time can some drift people apart, if you didnt see him any more i was just thinking that maybe this would have brought back a few memories i'm down stourbridge alot during weekends in the nightclubs, its crazy how much the town has changed from this video to the present time!
Thanks for the comments, I was given the video and must admit I haven't counted the number of men vs women. There are a fair few blokes there as well and besides, they hadn't invented political correctness in the 80s!
The scruffy looking bugger in the Hellfire Club tee shirt is my son!
Still playing guitar and occasionally gigging.
It's so weird looking at how lively it was back then! I've lived in Stourbridge since I was born and it's nothing like that now...So many shops out of business/derelict
Thanks for the upload! Very interesting to see what the town centre was like for my parents.
Stourbridge boy born and bred here. I was born in 1993 so this was a bit before my time. I've seen old videos and photos of how lovely the town centre looked. I hate the one way traffic of the high street where it gets congested and the ring road is a pain to get on and off during busy times. Now in the 2020s it's so dull and unlively, there is no place worth going to and there is barely anything to do. I think when the ring road was built it made everywhere else around the high street more chaotic.
0:53 the ring road was built ,so that the traffic would not go down the high street ,what a waist of time that was
Grew up in Brierley Hill but my Auntie and Uncle lived in Oldswinford, so used to go to Stourbridge with them on Saturdays. Great memories here, its such a pity it's not like it now! Something went very, very wrong in the space of 30-odd years!
this is amazing. i am out in cairo on business and was having a nostalgic moment about me 'ome town of stour. I went to king edwards with the blonde girl looking surprised earlier on and also saw hellfire club at the town hall. That was from 1983 to 1985 so the guesses on the years seem abouy right. thanks v much for the memories, means a lot, cheers
Saw my mom and stepfather in Ryemarket, long deceased now alas...
It looks like Boots was twice the size it is today, Iceland must have had some of Boots store?
yes, boots twice the size back in the day
So busy back in the day and great fashion and great car's
I watched this through a few times, looking for anyone I knew when I went to Stourbridge College, aka Foley College, between '81 and '83. I didn't recognize any of the younger people who might have been students, so maybe this was later in the 80s. Some of them appeared uncomfortable when they noticed the camera pointing at them!
@brcreature
They knocked down Bell Street Leisure centre in the late 80's if I remember rightly and replaced it with the Crystal. The old leisure centre used to have an outdoor pool.
Ahh, yes I remember the Lido.
I went to Foley college.... stourbridge was a great place to shop, You could get everything you needed , And the indoor market was brilliant ....Merry hill spoilt it and of course big supermarkets.... we had some BIG stores in stourbridge ...
Remember Owen and Owens it was killed by Merry Hell
my nan worked at stourbridge woolworths in 1974 through till 1977 then went to tower housewears where she worked till 1990 then worked at the red cow in shropshire from 1990 - 2019 shes now retiring this year
It was after 1985, the Crown Centre appears in this video and that was the year it was built
where the hell did you dig this up from, i remember the punk, he cut his thumb open really badley in jesters one night and bled everywhere
the punk was my dad, i would say how hes doing now but um he died a few years ago, he was a great guy
Sorry for your loss. Didn't know know him but remember seeing him about. @@ilovecatsyayayya
Been looking at a few videos with 80's footage: Birmingham, London, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Cradley Heath, Manchester. What surprises me is the lack of obese folk back then.
Too many manual jobs keeping us trim in those days
0:20 STRANGER THINGS?
I remember them doing the video. some lads from Stourbridge collage. nice lads . can't remember there names . most the young people would drink in the Exchange in the high street (had D.J. on over the weekends would get rammed). and the turf pub. over the road remember the faces not the names.
Thanks so much for sharing this
@tonimusher 1985 for me, sadly i don't have much memory of stourbridge back then, makes you think where the past 20+ has gone. i'd go back too the 80's tommorow and do it all again.
There's people right at the end of the vid from my year at Stourbridge art college 3:55 girl in the purple quilted jacket short blonde hair was Stephanie Marsh ( from Sedgley I think) and Helen in the long dark jacket ..(forgot her name) it looka like when we started in 83. The punk used to hang around the college cant remember his name.
Thank you, it's not often you get fly on the wall film footage like this
this is social history of britain, got longer footage?, tranfer to dvd and sell it on ebay, its great to get a look at the shops in the 80`s, wish someone had footage of Norwich in the 1970`s & 80`s, as i would buy it.
I lived in Kinver and went to King Edwards college 1983 to 1985. I remember the punk- and going to Boots to buy my goth eyeliner.I spotted my friend Sarah Hill with the bob hair 29 seconds in. Seems another lifetime ago- simpler ,happier times.
the punk was my dad !! unfortunitely he passed away a few years ago, even though he was punk he was genuinely such a nice guy
also im not saying anything bad about his style,, i just mean that certain styles could intimidate people is all
a reminder how it used to be. I worked in Stourbridge in 1987, Foster Street - remember all what what shown with the Ryemarket I think it was called and never forgetting the Moorings pub down at the bottom of the ring road. Good stuff!! :)
What Was the travel agent with the QANTAS poster in the window?
Wow look at the difference of the shops how they looked back then Colin
Wow, this is amazing stuff. Amazing as I was born in 1987. Alot of the shops are different now, but I still know exactly where the cameraman is filming from. And even Boots, it looks different even though its still a boots in 2009.
I used to live in claycroft place lye loved Stourbridge when I was little
Yep, you should definitely be a copper talking like that! Thanks for getting in touch, glad you like the video clip. I remember the band but never saw them
Well it did because we did'nt have Merry Hiil then - you can build more shopping centres but there are only so many shoppers.
Fantastic!! can see my family in this, 40-45 secs, thats my uncle who looks like Joey Boswell
Thanks, glad you like it. Sorry I don't know what year it was
@irREVersibleHFC do you still see the guy in the red mack or have you lost contact with him?
I worked in Stourbridge in th 80s so it all looked familiar to me. Alas I saw neither myself nor anyone else I recognised.
It all looks so dated on video - the clothes, the hair-styles, the cars - yet in my memories it seems just a short while ago ^_^
Interesting how everyone was noticing the camera. Today they wouldn't care since they are everywhere...
SAHBfan-Ummmm your comment makes no sense- There were some people in that video like girls that had short hair or pony tails or just very long hair + some had a perm -The men some had puffy hair or mullet but some has shaved head or very short hair...And the clothes-Some had coloured shirt or logo t-shirt, Jeans + trainers on and others had those patterned brown jumpers on-Same with women with jeans and a top and leather jacket or coat which people have now so shouldn't look all dated -But only saw a few with shoulder pads
so confused by your comment
+ the cars some of them were from the 70's that were still driving around tin the 80's, Where as some of them were 80's-Some of 80's cars do look dated now but some of them don't again a mixed bag
And back then Video Camera's were obvious when someone was filming, Where as today sometimes you wouldn't know as would look like they were txting......
How it's changed,
here because this is where Diamond Head are from
It was between 1983 and 1985 as I recognise Alison Ellcock from King Edwards and she was in my A level English class
Mik is the punk sat outside woolys, he was my unkle Rip unkle Mik x
im not sure who you are but he was my dad, i think that means we are related? but rip mik
@@ilovecatsyayayya what's your mom's first name,.
If your from kiddy, you know me, if it's Sadie yes we're related, also nr h Ford, yes we're related. Uncle Mik had quite a few children.
its louise @@chrisp_3227
@Cradleypete Yes, a few people recognised him and Mick got in touch as well a while ago.
R.i.p Mick
is mick the punk youre talking about? if so, hes my dad and i agree, i miss him a lot
That Mik the punk he is still going check out You know you grew up in Stourbridge its a facebook page and you will see Mik on there as he is now. Brilliant page.
I reckon it is '83 - '85 as i recognise Alison Elcock in the pic as we did A levels together at KE
Crown centre opened about '85
@@banana9106 earlier as i worked there after doing my o levels which was in the summer of 83 - so opened that year
Stourbridge in the 80's
Hi does anyone know the 2 ladies @1.29 Walking along the concrete wall and down the steps. Eating something.
Thanks
hold on… it looks nice
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Haha i was just wondering, time can some drift people apart, if you didnt see him any more i was just thinking that maybe this would have brought back a few memories
i'm down stourbridge alot during weekends in the nightclubs, its crazy how much the town has changed from this video to the present time!
Thanks for the comments, I was given the video and must admit I haven't counted the number of men vs women. There are a fair few blokes there as well and besides, they hadn't invented political correctness in the 80s!
I remember Stourbridge like that, building the rye market. however, whats with filming all the women? heh
@Velmapod Yep thats Mick and still alive i believe as i've seen his FB page.
I know Stourbridge personally
Think I saw like 1 black guy
Woman in the blue coat at 2:28 is a woman we think might be "Julie Bomboolie!"
yeah, it is Keely from beauty bank. nice girl
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it was alot nicer then lol
The punks mick the rat ,he used to carry his pet rat in his pocket,
i smashed jesters up, paper front cover, Rodney rat causes wine bar chaos ..
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punks not dead.
THE PUNKS NOT DEAD MAN
ha ha
haha, i completly agree, at least no political correctness in stourbridge! haha