Stourbridge in the 80's

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1980s random footage of Stourbridge town centre, are you there, or a friend or relative? who's the punk sat outside Woolworths? Let us know at info@stourbridge.co.uk and we will publish your comments. Special thanks to Chris Armfield who took the original video.

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6 июн 2009

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@Josh_Roberts 12 лет назад

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

@Incitatus69 15 лет назад

The scruffy looking bugger in the Hellfire Club tee shirt is my son! Still playing guitar and occasionally gigging.

@AgenoriaModelTrains 2 года назад

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.

@berylwelch3526 6 месяцев назад

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

@user-jc6vq9xe3h 5 месяцев назад

So busy back in the day and great fashion and great car's

@wumptywumpty4456 2 года назад

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!

@14KShadow 4 года назад

Thanks for the upload! Very interesting to see what the town centre was like for my parents.

@jupitersdreaming 3 месяца назад

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.

@truffles721 11 месяцев назад

Saw my mom and stepfather in Ryemarket, long deceased now alas...

@jbomber32 14 лет назад

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

@westmidlandstrainswestmidlands 26 дней назад

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

@davidheathcock9591 3 года назад

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.

@tomstorey7267 Месяц назад

Too many manual jobs keeping us trim in those days

@joyous196421 5 лет назад

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 ...

@banana9106 2 года назад

Remember Owen and Owens it was killed by Merry Hell

@MidlandNinja 14 лет назад

It was after 1985, the Crown Centre appears in this video and that was the year it was built

@jonnytightpants 15 лет назад

rockers at the start got a hellfire club tshirt on,first saw them when i was 14 at the thorns community center. they were great

@banana9106 2 года назад

I went to the Thorns and on to King Eddy's

@stourglassboy 15 лет назад

Thank you, it's not often you get fly on the wall film footage like this

@GJChurchward Год назад

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!

@roaming740 5 месяцев назад

here because this is where Diamond Head are from

@mbrooks1976 14 лет назад

Thanks so much for sharing this

@frenchie23666 13 лет назад

@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.

@bethshere 14 лет назад

@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.

@Jasey357 2 года назад

Ahh, yes I remember the Lido.

@jasonw3652 8 лет назад

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!! :)

@propsresourcesdept 15 лет назад

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

@christopherhulse8385 5 лет назад

It looks like Boots was twice the size it is today, Iceland must have had some of Boots store?

@lizzielh 2 года назад

yes, boots twice the size back in the day

@vikingodin1986 2 года назад

I used to live in claycroft place lye loved Stourbridge when I was little

@BlackSheep87 15 лет назад

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.

@chrisp_3227 3 дня назад

Mik is the punk sat outside woolys, he was my unkle Rip unkle Mik x

@andrewbelfield1052 3 года назад

R.i.p Mick

@doubledragonuk 14 лет назад

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.

@stourglassboy 14 лет назад

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

@SAHBfan 13 лет назад

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...

@mikekaraoke 5 лет назад

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......

@stourglassboy 15 лет назад

Thanks, glad you like it. Sorry I don't know what year it was

@stourglassboy 14 лет назад

Well it did because we did'nt have Merry Hiil then - you can build more shopping centres but there are only so many shoppers.

@bobbyfoxall1 12 лет назад

Fantastic!! can see my family in this, 40-45 secs, thats my uncle who looks like Joey Boswell

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 4 года назад

Wow look at the difference of the shops how they looked back then Colin

@josephd8663 2 года назад

hold on… it looks nice

@garethlloyd7103 Год назад

2. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (Extended Version)

@charlottemaykels6000 10 лет назад

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.

@stourglassboy 13 лет назад

@Cradleypete Yes, a few people recognised him and Mick got in touch as well a while ago.

@sbruntnell 9 лет назад

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.

@lizzielh 14 лет назад

It was between 1983 and 1985 as I recognise Alison Ellcock from King Edwards and she was in my A level English class

@mrslavinator1057 2 года назад

I wish I was alive back then

@jonnyg8888 7 лет назад

How it's changed,

@jonnytightpants 11 лет назад

ah,i was thinkin of gladiator at thorns.hellfire club,aye,saw at town hall-"Absolute Power-thud-thud"

@michaelearith3184 3 года назад

What Was the travel agent with the QANTAS poster in the window?

@stourglassboy 15 лет назад

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!

@simonduncan8327 2 года назад

I know Stourbridge personally

@JohnnyRigman 14 лет назад

@irREVersibleHFC do you still see the guy in the red mack or have you lost contact with him?

@garethlloyd7103 Год назад

3. Magic

@malakai9738 9 месяцев назад

0:20 STRANGER THINGS?

@garethlloyd7103 Год назад

Stourbridge in the 80's

@doktorgriff 14 лет назад

@Velmapod Yep thats Mick and still alive i believe as i've seen his FB page.

@bettyray69 14 лет назад

Woman in the blue coat at 2:28 is a woman we think might be "Julie Bomboolie!"

@lizzielh 15 лет назад

I reckon it is '83 - '85 as i recognise Alison Elcock in the pic as we did A levels together at KE

@banana9106 2 года назад

Crown centre opened about '85

@lizzielh 2 года назад

@@banana9106 earlier as i worked there after doing my o levels which was in the summer of 83 - so opened that year

@thinkagainst 11 лет назад

yeah, it is Keely from beauty bank. nice girl

@dunem666 15 лет назад

I remember Stourbridge like that, building the rye market. however, whats with filming all the women? heh

@JohnnyRigman 14 лет назад

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!