Day Out - Dudley (1983)

The late Gwyn Richards takes us on a tour of Dudley and the Black Country Museum in 1983.

[Jennie-szog]

Just wonderful. Just how I remember it as a kid! The bustling marketplace compared to now, has made me feel quite sad.

[Ashley_x_Smith]

I was 14 when this was filmed, how sad the decline of Dudley over the years...

[Wench]

I cry when I see dudley and other towns have become

[Jewel-juqz]

we grew up in West Bromwich just a few miles from Dudley, we went to the zoo almost every holiday, had many many happy hours here, been as an adult with nieces, nephews and now great nephew! we always have a great time!

[artvanwag]

We went to Dudley a few weeks ago it looks like a different country now

[fareedjavadi]

I am from Iran, I studied my degree in Birmingham 78 to 82 and though I visited a lot of places in UK my knowledge about Dudly was next to zero and missed this wonderfull musume. What a pitty. Great video.

[AlisonBryen]

My first trip to Dudley Castle was in 1987. Great memories ❤

[VinylCorner]

An unbelievable watch, the year I was born. Thank you posting this

[bullringbirminghamnostalgi]

I remember it like this as a kid. Great memories ❤

[charleslucas]

I worked on the zoo when it was a part of the zoo federation and Mr Grace was the Director
It went down after he left

[Trekman]

Sneaked on there most days as a kid was amazing growing up on the priory eatate i lived the back of zoo as a kid magical days im 40 now dudley isn't the same

[martinguest]

Live in Dudley it's definitely not quite the same place it used to my nan used to take me and my friend to Dudley Zoo I'm my school holidays happy days

[neilbarker]

This is awesome, being from Dudley originally

[shine]

Really enjoyed this video.I was a guide at the Black Country museum now living in Cumbria. Brought back many memories

[hitchannel]

I visited the Museum in the 90's with my very young children and it was like being in my old Street of Oldbury.

[paulsawtell]

I remember when this Day Out series was presented by David St John Howell who was a dear friend and boozing pal of mine.

[asa]

Visited Dudley zoo this year there’s hardly any animals in there. The polar bears have gone. The elephants have gone. It’s such a pity.

[BadwolfeMedia]

My home town but thankfully now live in Yorkshire. Dudley has gone seriously downhill in the last decade

[Gashernd]

what is not mentioned is the earl of dudley's staue originally faced overlooking his lands down castle hill, but after his great debts and betrayal of the dudley people his staue was turned up towards the town with his back on his beloved black country. He left hundreds of open mine shafts which the council had to pay to have capped and a whole lot more not mapped and still today opening up like the one which did at back of my junior school in tividale and the one in centre of main rd from dudley to oldbury.

[paulhughes]

Blimey, I rember seing the polar bears when I was a teenager so must have been mid 70's at a guess